Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor emeritus who recently joined President Donald Trump's defense team, made the constitutional case against impeachment in an interview on ABC's 'This Week' Sunday. It's an argument that he said was successfully argued in President Andrew Johnson
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor emeritus who recently joined President Donald Trump's defense team, made the constitutional case against impeachment in an interview on ABC's"This Week" Sunday.
In a separate interview on"This Week" the lead House impeachment manager, Rep. Adam Schiff, called Dershowitz's argument"absurdist.""You had to go so far out of the mainstream to find someone to make that argument," Schiff told Stephanopoulos."You had to leave the realm of constitutional law scholars and go to criminal defense lawyers."
.@GStephanopoulos:"Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?"— This Week January 19, 2020 Dershowitz argued that the president should not be impeached, even if House managers prove their case for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
"Senators must accept and fulfill the responsibility placed on them by the Framers of our Constitution and the Oaths they have just taken to do impartial justice," the brief said."They must conduct a fair trial -- fair to the President and fair to the American people.”"If the Senate decides -- if Senator McConnell prevails and there are no witnesses, it will be the first impeachment trial in history that goes to conclusion without witnesses," he said.
Story continues"The one thing that's very clear is that if witnesses are permitted on one side, they have to be permitted on both sides," Dershowitz said."And if witnesses are permitted, it will delay the trial considerably, because the president will invoke executive privilege as to people like John Bolton that will have to go to the court and we'll have to have a resolution of that before the trial continues.
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