OPINIONDecember 5, 2019Alan Dershowitz: Impeachment has deeply divided our nation – Why weren't legal experts cross examined?Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing squandered an opportunity to educate the public about the criteria for impeaching a president.
OPINIONJuly 26, 2019Alan Dershowitz: Mueller wrongly introduces dangerous concept of ‘exoneration’ in review of Trump actionsExoneration is not the job of our legal system. Mueller’s attempt to introduce it is an extraordinary and dangerous innovation that would endanger the presumption of innocence we all have under the law.
OPINIONJune 25, 2019Alan Dershowitz: Mueller shouldn’t tell Congress anything about Trump not already in his reportWhen former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies July 17 before two Democratic-controlled House committees about his investigation of Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump, Mueller should refuse to say anything about the investigation of Trump and his campaign beyond what is already in his report.
OPINIONJune 4, 2019Alan Dershowitz: Why is Paul Manafort off to Rikers? Prepare to be shocked (and outraged)The decision to move Paul Manafort to the dangerous hell hole that is New York City’s Rikers Island seems abusive and possibly illegal.
OPINIONMay 23, 2019Alan Dershowitz: Congress is not above the law when it comes to impeachment – Don’t weaponize the ConstitutionThe Framers of the Constitution did not want a weak president subject to the political control of Congress.
OPINIONMay 14, 2019Alan Dershowitz: McCarthyism comes to Harvard -- Why this should alarm us allMany troubling arguments have been offered in defense of the decision not to renew Professor Ron Sullivan’s role as Dean of Harvard's Winthrop house. The most common – and dangerous – is that students feel “unsafe” around a lawyer who is representing Weinstein. Feeling “unsafe” is the new mantra for the new McCarthyism.
Russia InvestigationMarch 25, 2019Alan Dershowitz: A prosecutor's job is to make decisions, Mueller didn't finish the jobOrdinary prosecutors know the rules and generally play by them. With the special counsel, they make it up as they go along, as Mueller obviously did in this case when he provided his multiple-choice conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice.
OPINIONMarch 22, 2019Alan Dershowitz: Mueller just filed Russia report. Here's what Barr should do with itHold your breath and stay tuned, America. And please, don’t rush to judgment until you have not only read this report
OPINIONMarch 12, 2019Alan Dershowitz: College cheating scandal is big -- and it may get much worseThe federal racketeering indictment filed Tuesday in a college admissions scandal in which wealthy parents allegedly paid bribes to get their children into elite universities is the most serious such scandal ever exposed – and may get worse.
OPINIONJanuary 19, 2019Alan Dershowitz: BuzzFeed report (and Mueller rebuke) a vivid example of “Get Trump” media mindsetMedia and Democrats wrongly rushed to judgment on BuzzFeed report claiming Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress -- and then Mueller said the report was "not accurate."