CitizenBBN
05-23-2019, 02:43 PM
It's by Alan Dershowitz, a life long liberal and one of the great legal civil rights minds of our era.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-congress-is-not-above-the-law-when-it-comes-to-impeachment-dont-weaponize-the-constitution
I have disagreed with him many times over the years, but because he is ethical and moral and intellectually honest (and never ever a hypocrite), I have the deepest respect for him. That's what we used to have, b/c people disagreed but were honest. Now they're all just partisan hacks and spin-doctors, so you can't have respect.
Anyway, he very succinctly makes the case for how the current impeachment movement and investigations are not the defense of Democracy, but are in fact deep abrogations of the Constitution and the constitutional role they play in the system.
Impeachment was never supposed to be a weapon to give Congress political power over the Executive, and in fact as Dershowitz points out the issues of impeachment were well discussed and Congress was given a somewhat narrow power to remove a President for the very fact that the Founders, coming from the debacle that was the Articles of Confederation, wanted a stronger Executive that was on par with Congress, not its servant.
Now we see a judiciary and a Congress quite completely out of control due to the very false hysteria of Trump. The ends now justify the means for so many because they are convinced, despite any actual objective evidence whatsoever, that Trump is evil or a traitor or just ugly and rude, and he must be stopped at all costs.
Trump isn't going to become dictator or destroy this democracy, but those who have lost all perspective in opposing him are sure making a good try at accomplishing that goal.
Listen to Dershowitz. He's a lifelong liberal and Democrat, and an honest man. Civil liberties and Constitutional protections are being eroded in the eera of Trump, but not by Trump so much as by those who are blinded in their hatred and fear of him. It doesn't mean Trump is a good guy, or even an OK one, but as Dershowitz said, no one is above the law, but no one is below it either, and that includes Trump.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-congress-is-not-above-the-law-when-it-comes-to-impeachment-dont-weaponize-the-constitution
I have disagreed with him many times over the years, but because he is ethical and moral and intellectually honest (and never ever a hypocrite), I have the deepest respect for him. That's what we used to have, b/c people disagreed but were honest. Now they're all just partisan hacks and spin-doctors, so you can't have respect.
Anyway, he very succinctly makes the case for how the current impeachment movement and investigations are not the defense of Democracy, but are in fact deep abrogations of the Constitution and the constitutional role they play in the system.
Impeachment was never supposed to be a weapon to give Congress political power over the Executive, and in fact as Dershowitz points out the issues of impeachment were well discussed and Congress was given a somewhat narrow power to remove a President for the very fact that the Founders, coming from the debacle that was the Articles of Confederation, wanted a stronger Executive that was on par with Congress, not its servant.
Now we see a judiciary and a Congress quite completely out of control due to the very false hysteria of Trump. The ends now justify the means for so many because they are convinced, despite any actual objective evidence whatsoever, that Trump is evil or a traitor or just ugly and rude, and he must be stopped at all costs.
Trump isn't going to become dictator or destroy this democracy, but those who have lost all perspective in opposing him are sure making a good try at accomplishing that goal.
Listen to Dershowitz. He's a lifelong liberal and Democrat, and an honest man. Civil liberties and Constitutional protections are being eroded in the eera of Trump, but not by Trump so much as by those who are blinded in their hatred and fear of him. It doesn't mean Trump is a good guy, or even an OK one, but as Dershowitz said, no one is above the law, but no one is below it either, and that includes Trump.