Alan Dershowitz: Trump should nominate a 'true conservative' to the Supreme Court

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Washington Examiner
Katelyn Caralle
July 3, 2018

Harvard Law professor and Fox News contributor Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday he hopes President Trump nominates a “true conservative” to the Supreme Court in order to help broaden Trump’s base and unite the country.

“I hope [Trump] is looking for [a] libertarian conservative, a true conservative, who elevates the rights of individual over the power of government,” Dershowitz told "Fox and Friends." “A true conservative also respects precedent, doesn't come to the court with an agenda, with a list of issues he wants to see change.”

Dershowitz also said Trump can be expected to choose someone not only based in part on recommendation, but also mostly on his own personal interaction with those individuals.

More... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/alan-dershowitz-trump-should-nominate-a-true-conservative-to-the-supreme-court

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

"Kavanaugh, like the other conservatives in the high court, has expressed skepticism about the Chevron doctrine, which says judges should defer to executive branch agencies’ interpretation of ambiguous statutes. He called Chevron “an atextual invention by the courts” and “nothing more than a judicially orchestrated shift of power from Congress to the Executive Branch.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/meet-the-contenders-to-fill-justice-anthony-kennedys-seat-on-the-supreme-court

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"Kavanaugh, like the other conservatives in the high court, has expressed skepticism about the Chevron doctrine, which says judges should defer to executive branch agencies’ interpretation of ambiguous statutes. He called Chevron “an atextual invention by the courts” and “nothing more than a judicially orchestrated shift of power from Congress to the Executive Branch.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/meet-the-contenders-to-fill-justice-anthony-kennedys-seat-on-the-supreme-court

There is too much power wielded by bureaucrats so I'll go with Kavanaugh's position.

[catfish1957]

Derschowitz has quietly become the very last reasonable pundit of the left.

[Sanguine]

Derschowitz has quietly become the very last reasonable pundit of the left.

I'm not sure he fits into the left anymore.

[catfish1957]

I'm not sure he fits into the left anymore.

Yeah, true.  The left has shifted left.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

There is too much power wielded by bureaucrats so I'll go with Kavanaugh's position.

This was also mentioned by Mike Lee as a deciding factor in his approval of Gorsuch.

[endicom]

This was also mentioned by Mike Lee as a deciding factor in his approval of Gorsuch.

A tip o' the cap to Mike Lee.

[jpsb]

Barrett looking better and better all the time.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

A tip o' the cap to Mike Lee.

Lee said he spent a lot of time reading Gorsuch decisions and found a decided and repeated aversion to Chevron doctrine.

[TomSea]

The Democratic party has become anti-Israel, that is probably Dershowitz's main objection. If he's fair though, that's what is important. Some are not fair, ignore.

[Jazzhead]

“I hope [Trump] is looking for [a] libertarian conservative, a true conservative, who elevates the rights of individual over the power of government,” Dershowitz told "Fox and Friends." “A true conservative also respects precedent, doesn't come to the court with an agenda, with a list of issues he wants to see change.”

I agree completely with Mr. Dershowitz.  I'd be fascinated to know which of the candidates that the President is considering meet, in Dershowitz's view, his criteria.   

[truth_seeker]

I agree completely with Mr. Dershowitz.  I'd be fascinated to know which of the candidates that the President is considering meet, in Dershowitz's view, his criteria.

Dersh is still tethered to his democrat party partisanship. He would likely say none of them.

I respectfully submit.

[TomSea]

“I hope [Trump] is looking for [a] libertarian conservative, a true conservative, who elevates the rights of individual over the power of government,” Dershowitz told "Fox and Friends." “A true conservative also respects precedent, doesn't come to the court with an agenda, with a list of issues he wants to see change.”

Totally agree with this, "all men are created equal"....it's time we stop denying the right to some individuals, making them less than human like something that was carried out by the 3rd Reich. Over to you Allen.  Yes, from the Declaration of Independence, nonetheless, it's all men are created equal, not born equal.

[Suppressed]

Yes, from the Declaration of Independence, nonetheless, it's all men are created equal, not born equal.

Yes, men.

Not women or children.

Interesting point.

[Jazzhead]

Dersh is still tethered to his democrat party partisanship. He would likely say none of them.

I respectfully submit.

Well, in the current political climate, it would be both useful and patriotic to express his opinion whether any of the present candidates meet his criteria.

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah, true.  The left has shifted left.

From the cheap seats, it isn't just the left that shifted left.

[truth_seeker]

Well, in the current political climate, it would be both useful and patriotic to express his opinion whether any of the present candidates meet his criteria.

I recall the "Free Speech" movement at UC Berkeley during the 1960s led by old school "Liberals," and I recall the Skokie case advanced by the ACLU.


The dem party has been mainly taken over by progressivism, neo-liberalism, anti-free speech, Postmodernism, intersectionality, at the behest of SJWs.


Hardly anobody on the left besides Dersh says a word.

The Intellectual Dark Web (IDW), is mainly made up of people that are pushing back against this neoliberalism on campuses and the public media.

By the way, some from the old left are now calling themselves "classic liberals," or libertarians.

Professional educators have largely caved to the loud SJWs.

I believe it is widely believed in the Anglosphere is is dragging their left causes into a losing situation.

Losses in November might wake them up. But it is doubtful. Too close to Obama.

 

[TomSea]

Yes, men.

Not women or children.

Interesting point.

Please expand on this; are you saying women and children are not included.

Believe me, Trump is in the White House, you don't like it but the culture of death, you, @Jazzhead and @Oceander praise is on the run.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

I don't think it's a right/left issue for Prof Dershowitz but the fact that he Does understand the Constitution and the way our laws are really supposed to operate.

And his POV is outrage at the wholesale liberties being taken and impressed upon his love, the Law itself.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Thanx Washington Examiner...I'd like to know what Putin and Kim Jong Un think too.
Maybe Dershowitz can ask OJ what he thinks