Dershowitz, who has represented former President Donald Trump, said that the committee violated its constitutional limitations as part of a legislative body.
to refer Trump for charges regarding his actions related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, including for obstruction of an official preceding, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to make a false statement, and inciting, assisting or aiding or comforting an insurrection.
According to Dershowitz, the committee violated the Constitution by overstepping its limited powers as part of a legislative body that are mapped out in Article 1.has only legislative powers," Dershowitz argued on his show."It does not have prosecutorial authority....I challenge anybody to show me anything in this Constitution which explicitly or even implicitly gives Congress the power to refer cases of individuals for prosecution.
In the inset, attorney Alan Dershowitz speaks during an interview on May 18, 2010, in Jerusalem. Members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol vote unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump during a hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on October 13 in Washington, D.C. Dershowitz says that the House committee violated the U.S. Constitution in several ways by referring Trump for prosecution.
The House committee's referrals do not mean that Trump is guilty of the criminal statutes they mention, however, and it will be up to Attorney GeneralThe Harvard professor also called out his former law student,, a Democrat who serves on the January 6 committee. Dershowitz said Raskin and other members of Congress on the House committee"ignored the Constitution and put partisanship before law.
"You were a good student," Dershowitz said."I contributed to your campaign. But you're wrong about this one. And you've been wrong about almost everything regarding Trump because you put politics before principle."
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