Dershowitz: ‘You Cannot Charge a President With Obstruction for Exercising His Constitutional Power’!
Breitbart ^ | 4 Dec 2017 | JEFF POOR
Posted on 12/4/2017, 9:29:24 AM by Mr. Mojo
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz batted down the merit of obstruction of justice charges aimed at President Donald Trump for what he said was exercising his constitutional power and authority regarding the firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and instructing the Department of Justice what to and not to investigate.
“If Congress were to ever charge him with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional authority under Article 2, we’d have a constitutional crisis,” he explained. “You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire Comey and his constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That’s what Thomas Jefferson did. That’s what Lincoln did. That’s what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that clearly establish that.”
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This is similar to the case I’m which the Democrats took TX gov. Rick Perry to court for exercising his constitutional right. The court ultimately sided with Perry.