Tag: Alan Dershowitz

Dersh Invites Trump To Come Help Rudy With His Legal Issues

By Summer Concepcion | May 3, 2021 6:55 p.m.

Dershowitz Insists His Stunning Senate Trial Assertion Was ‘Deliberately Distorted’

By Summer Concepcion | February 2, 2020 3:47 p.m.

After Blowback, Dershowitz Walks Back Alarming ‘Public Interest’ Defense Of Trump

By Cristina Cabrera | January 30, 2020 11:42 a.m.

Expert On Call: Why Dershowitz’s Constitutional Case Fell Flat

By Nicole Lafond | January 28, 2020 2:57 p.m.

President Trump’s impeachment defense team has been all over the place, deploying an at-times unhinged, but transparent string of defenses since they took over the Senate trial on Saturday.

Before the trial wrapped up for the evening on Monday, Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz took to the floor to lay out a constitutional case against impeaching the President, resurrecting the former President Andrew Johnson-era defense that an act has to be criminal to be impeachable. I spoke to one of our on-call experts about why this argument is dizzying.