Posted on 05/19/2017 10:41:07 PM PDT by Helicondelta
President Donald Trump most likely has the legal right to fire former FBI Director James Comey, but the complex and difficult issues surrounding Comey's dismissal means "nobody will ever indict the sitting president for obstruction of justice," Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday.
"Under the unitary executive theory, the president has the right to tell the FBI what to do," Dershowitz told CNN's "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo, invoking a theory that holds the president possesses the power to control the entire executive branch of the government.
"Thomas Jefferson managed the trial against Aaron Burr. President [Lyndon B.] Johnson interacted with the Justice Department and FBI."
Dershowitz also appeared on MSNBC Wednesday morning, where he commented that since Watergate, there have been walls of separation erected between a president, the Justice Department and the FBI.
"Those are internal investigation rules, not on questions of law," he said.
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Fascinated by the Dershowitz strain of libs. Perhaps they’re pining for the good ol’ days where Leftism wasn’t much of a threat.
Dershowitz is one of the last honest men on the left. He still believes in the rule of law.
“Those are internal investigation rules, not on questions of law,” he said.<<<
LMAO!
The President can do what he wants. Nothing is illegal. But, he has to maintain the support of the House or 40% of the Senate. The president just needs to uphold the constitution. And the congress cannot abridge the rights of the president. So he has a large leeway.
The press on the other hand will act as though it were otherwise. They will spin things as though he were breaking laws even if he is not.
...depending on what he was doing, flying to Epstein's Kiddie Rape Island. One of the former sex slaves said she was forced to service him multiple times. He was Epstein's lawyer who all but got him off scot-free.
Hey, maybe he does believe in the Rule of Law from the waist up, at least. I'll take what I can get with liberals.
Also, as Andy McCarthy writes in National Review, the Flynn investigation is/was a FISA investigation, which is an intelligence / counter-intelligence investigation, not a criminal investigation. It couldn’t be a matter of “obstructing justice” anyway.
And shame on the RINOs that don't have Trump's back - they know Dersh is correct also.
There may yet be a revolution/civil war, but won't be for the reasons we always assumed.
I think Alan might be afraid of the pedo sandal. I have read rumors to that effect. If I am mixing him up with someone else, I am now declaring myself as ground zero for this rumor.
I think Alan might be afraid of the pedo sandal. I have read rumors to that effect. If I am mixing him up with someone else, I am now declaring myself as ground zero for this rumor.
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Great post and analysis...you earned the ground zero right.
As a member of the OJ Simpson defense team it was Douchbagowitz that convinced them to play the race card and came up with that overall strategy. OJ didn’t want to go there but Douchbagowitz won out.
I hope he’s right but fear he’s wrong. Between Bill Kristol and the organized left, I think they’ll stop at nothing.
If that's true, it didn't take much to convince Johnnie Cockroach. That guy is the biggest racist on the planet.
If you believe the stories being told Cockroach wanted to go after the LAPD but wasn't to keen on the race card thing.
Will the Never Trumpers and Democrat Senators and Representatives and especially Judges be arrested for Obstruction of Governance?
They are all guilty
I would truly like him on the SCOTUS, If Trump gets three and at four nominations to the court, I would use one foe Alan. I really don’t care that he is a liberal. I care that he will interpret not right the law.
msm depends on the stupidity of the American citizens.
Dershowitz is a Lib but he’s not a tard.
How is “asking” obstruction of justice anyway? Even if Trump asked James Joke Comedy to give Flynn a break, how is that obstruction? If I drive through a red light and get pulled over and ask the cop to give me a break, to not to give me a ticket, that is NOT obstruction of justice. This garbage where Comedy said he was “appalled” by Trumps request is absolute nonsense. The fact is Comedy is just one more wack job leftist who shouldn’t have been head of the FBI in the first place, he’s a political hack who bases justice on his political beliefs.
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