Dershowitz: Indicting Trump Would Be Targeted Injustice

[mountaineer]

Indicting Trump Would Be Targeted Injustice
ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
NY Sun

When I was coming of age in the 1950s Southern prosecutors would target civil rights workers and search for any possible violation of the law, no matter how technical. If they discovered or invented a violation, they would indict, prosecute, convict and sentence the target.

Often the violation would be of an obscure statute that had never before been deployed. To paraphrase the late Justice Robert Jackson, these anachronistic statutes and precedents lie around “like loaded weapons“ ready to be selectively enforced against political enemies.

That, precisely, is what we are now seeing with the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, targeting the former president and current candidate, Donald Trump. Does anyone actually believe that if someone else were accused of paying hush money to avoid a sex scandal in the manner that Mr. Trump is suspected of doing, he would be prosecuted? 

After spending months searching the criminal code for a law that Mr. Trump might be accused of violating, Mr. Bragg has apparently landed on a highly questionable campaign contribution provision that has never before been used in a comparable situation.

As Jackson also presciently observed: “With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.”  ...

All decent people, whether politically opposed to Mr. Trump (as I am) or supportive of his candidacy, should be concerned about this weaponizing of the prosecutor’s office for the political purpose of preventing a potential candidate from running for office.  ...

[mountaineer]

Dershowitz to Newsmax: Left-Wing McCarthyism Targets Trump Defenders
By Michael Katz   
Friday, 24 March 2023 08:48 PM EDT

Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Friday that any judge who rules in favor of former President Donald Trump as he fights legal battles on several fronts will be subject to the kind of ridicule that suspected communists faced during the era of Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

"If you are perceived as enabling Trump in the in the [left-wing] communities of New York and Washington, D.C., your personal life will be affected; and judges are influenced by that," Dershowitz told "Rob Schmitt Tonight." "That's why there cannot be a trial of Trump either in Manhattan or in the District of Columbia, because no judge will have the courage to throw out the case and have their personal and family and professional lives ruined.

"We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism, and I went through the original McCarthyism. This is extraordinarily dangerous." ...

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-left-wing-mccarthyism/2023/03/24/id/1113761/

[sneakypete]

"We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism,....

So true,sooo true!

[mountaineer]

"We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism,....
So true,sooo true!

The current version is way more hysterical and irrational than anything that went on during the 1950s.

[Fishrrman]

Dershowitz:
"We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism, and I went through the original McCarthyism"

You're right about the current left-wing attacks.

But...
Joe McCarthy was RIGHT in his time about the communists. They were nestled deep in many places.

I wouldn't be surprised if you flirted with joining The Party in your own youthful exuberance, Mr. Dershowitz.

[sneakypete]

Dershowitz:
"We are living in an age of left-wing McCarthyism, and I went through the original McCarthyism"

You're right about the current left-wing attacks.

But...
Joe McCarthy was RIGHT in his time about the communists. They were nestled deep in many places.

I wouldn't be surprised if you flirted with joining The Party in your own youthful exuberance, Mr. Dershowitz.

@Fishrrman

Does ANYONE REALLY think the 'murikan left would have gotten their panties all in a wad like they did if there had been no truth to what McCarthy was claiming?

[LMAO]

Bragg is going after Trump with more vim and vigor than the violent criminals that plague NYC

[sneakypete]

Bragg is going after Trump with more vim and vigor than the violent criminals that plague NYC

@LMAO

Bragg and the entire leadership class in NYC go around in armored limos with armed guards everywhere they go,so violent criminals are not a threat to THEM.