Dershowitz
Republicans took Alan Dershowitz down to the river to baptize him. They dunked him three times to get all the liberal off and then banged his head against a rock about five times too many.
After OJ, the man was a nobody. Nobody cared what he thought or asked him to be on teevee. OJ eventually went to jail and Dershowitz went to celebrity hell. In my way of thinking, they both deserved what they got.
But, Dershowitz found his way back. He did a complete flip flop on what the Constitution says and now says the framers did not mean abuse of power to be an impeachable offense. Okay, if abuse of power is not impeachable, what the screaming hell is?
How does he explain this about-face? When questioned about his current views as opposed to his opposite views during the Clinton impeachment, we get this.
“I am much more correct right now having done all the research.”
Nope. You cannot be “more correct.” You can be right or you can be wrong. This is not a multiple choice question. Going the opposite direction is not getting “more right.”
Dershowitz is 81 years old. He ain’t got a lot of study time left to spare. Who’s to say that if he studies it for another 20 years, he won’t come full circle?
But I still respect him slightly more than I do Ken Starr. Ken Starr is just a law gigolo.
To boldly go where no Woody Allen has gone before
The New Yorker article, written by Connie Bruck, tracks Dershowitz’s career of defending men accused of sexual abuse and misconduct, and how he’s done so under the guise of his “civil libertarian” politics, using details from victims’ personal lives as smears, even as he has argued that alleged perpetrators were being denied their right to privacy and freedom of speech.
* Women in Dershowitz’s law school classes say his lectures made them uncomfortable. By the time he was teaching at Harvard Law School, Dershowitz had established himself as a defense attorney and lecturer with strong views on the prosecution of rape cases. Bruck reports that female students said his lectures could be “uncomfortable” because of the way he strenuously defended accused men over alleged victims.
* Dershowitz suggested that the age of consent should be 15 years old.In a 1997 op-ed, Dershowitz argued against statutory-rape laws, writing that “there must be criminal sanctions against sex with very young children, but it is doubtful whether such sanctions should apply to teenagers above the age of puberty, since voluntary sex is so common in their age group.” He suggested that 15 “was a reasonable age of consent, no matter how old the partner was,”
https://www.thecut.com/2019/07/what-we-learned-from-the-new-yorkers-alan-dershowitz-story.html
1Alan had to do all that studying to unlearn what most of us learned in 4th grade social studies: the Declaration of Independence, King George III was a tyrant and pretty much what the founding fathers were thinking when they set up the US Constitution. Three co-equal branches of government, checks and balances, and “we the people” are fundamental.
Stephen Colbert nailed it: ““The president’s lawyers say that abuse of power is not impeachable. Yes it is!” Colbert said. “It’s the most powerful job in the world. That’s why abuse of power is the thing a president is not supposed to do.”
Two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of justice which neglects to mention how many times IQ4.5 has done those things. Good luck defending that, Alan. Even with Moscow Mitch driving the Bronco and Leningrad Lindsey riding shotgun, throwing the evidence off a bridge in broad daylight is no way to run a trial.
2The smell of kangaroo dung is stinking up the Senate, starting today in about an hour.
Moscow Mitch’s impeachment trial “rules” are so blatantly biased towards a coverup/whitewash that the average commie [soviet/chinese/dprk] ‘show trial’ looks downright fair.
1 PM to 1 AM sessions, WTF?
Kangaroo Mitch wants all of this wrapped up and forgotten before Comrade Donnei gives a SOTU speech in a couple of weeks.
Speaker Pelosi screwed up massively, imo, by rushing this under pressure; she should have really slooow-walked it into ~March/April at least.
The Democrats need to somehow throw a wrench [or bombshell] into this travesty.
3Amazing how desperate some people are for notoriety, it doesn’t matter what they say about you, as long as they are talking about you.
4His reputation now tarnished will be further buried in the manure pit of degrading himself for column inches. Sad, as he was once a respected legal scholar of some note, now he’s a sad publicity monkey.
As I watch the Senate, I don’t see him sitting with all the Presidents other lawyers – is he giving an interview somewhere?
5Isn’t that how the Republicans collect members? They offer sanctuary to every crook, kook, dunderhead, religious ideologue, aggrieved male, and disgraced professional (including shysters like Dershowitz). They can’t win on the merit of their ideas, so they gerrymander, restrict voting, propagandize, cheat, fearmonger, and scrounge for losers and liars to sign on.
6Avis Puckett@6: you’re right. But forgive me in automatically filling in your list of losers with Headley Lamarr’s:
I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dikes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists!
Sadly, most of those listed are fine upstanding folks compared to the Repub Party nowadays.
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