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Title: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: mystery-ak on January 28, 2020, 02:59:37 pm
Joshua Caplan 28 Jan 2020

Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Monday took a shot at Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz over his legal arguments against the impeachment of President Donald Trump, branding his remarks as “nonsensical.”

“His characterization of the law simply is unsupported. He is a criminal law professor who stood in the well of the Senate and talked about how law never inquires into intent and that we should not be using the president’s intent as part of understanding impeachment,” said Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, according to The Hill.

“Criminal law is all about intent. Mens rea is the heart of criminal law. That’s the very basis of it. So it makes his whole presentation just nonsensical. I truly could not follow it,” she added.

Earlier Monday, Dershowitz broke down why the two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — fall “outside the range of impeachable offenses.”

He argued that impeachment required “criminal-like conduct akin to treason and bribery.”

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Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: verga on January 28, 2020, 03:11:14 pm
Got it, She doesn't understand enough about the law to be President. Thank you for clearing that up Lizzie.
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: skeeter on January 28, 2020, 03:11:35 pm
If this case is defined by Trump's intent then we must hear from the Bidens, Schiff and the 'Whistleblower'.

If Trump's intent was to gain political advantage, then the Bidens will be completely innocent. If they were indeed involved in nepotism and trading on daddy's position as VP, his intent will have been righteous, he was set up by the rats and he should be acquitted.
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: Bigun on January 28, 2020, 03:14:23 pm
Quote from: verga on January 28, 2020, 03:11:14 pm
Got it, She doesn't understand enough about the law to be President. Thank you for clearing that up Lizzie.

I will assure you that many of the lawyers in that room with her had never heard any of the stuff Professor Dershowitz spelled out for them previously.  Law schools these days don't teach the Constitution only case law.
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: sneakypete on January 28, 2020, 04:28:30 pm
Ok,a quick show of hands from anyone surprised she doesn't understand something.

Buehler?
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: mountaineer on January 28, 2020, 05:04:05 pm
If only he'd spoken in Cherokee ...
(https://blog.mangolanguages.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Cherokee_language_alphabet_Mango_Languages.jpg?width=795&height=497&name=Cherokee_language_alphabet_Mango_Languages.jpg)
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: Bigun on January 28, 2020, 05:07:12 pm
Quote from: mountaineer on January 28, 2020, 05:04:05 pm
If only he'd spoken in Cherokee ...
(https://blog.mangolanguages.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Cherokee_language_alphabet_Mango_Languages.jpg?width=795&height=497&name=Cherokee_language_alphabet_Mango_Languages.jpg)

 :mauslaff:  888high58888
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: libertybele on January 28, 2020, 05:10:52 pm
Injun Liz didn't understand what he said because she's not smart enough.  Obviously she's not smart enough to be president.
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: Jazzhead on January 28, 2020, 05:33:28 pm
Okay,  Liz, so intent's the issue.   Trump's supposedly corrupt motivation for temporarily seeking to delay aid to encourage Ukrainian investigation into corruption at Burisma,  even though the aid was ultimately released, on time, without preconditions.

Is that your big thing?    Then let Hunter Biden testify!   
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: Jazzhead on January 28, 2020, 05:34:43 pm
Quote from: skeeter on January 28, 2020, 03:11:35 pm
If this case is defined by Trump's intent then we must hear from the Bidens, Schiff and the 'Whistleblower'.

If Trump's intent was to gain political advantage, then the Bidens will be completely innocent. If they were indeed involved in nepotism and trading on daddy's position as VP, his intent will have been righteous, he was set up by the rats and he should be acquitted.

Bingo, @skeeter
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: PeteS in CA on January 28, 2020, 06:04:09 pm
 22chief Fauxcahontas need smoke signals? 22chief

All she really said was that he spoke far above her legal intellect and she can't refute what he said. Unsurprisingly.
Title: Re: Elizabeth Warren: I Couldn’t Follow Alan Dershowitz’s ‘Nonsensical’ Argument
Post by: berdie on January 28, 2020, 09:32:28 pm
Quote from: PeteS in CA on January 28, 2020, 06:04:09 pm
22chief Fauxcahontas need smoke signals? 22chief

All she really said was that he spoke far above her legal intellect and she can't refute what he said. Unsurprisingly.




True.  I am not a lawyer and didn't even go to college.  I understood it.