Flashback of Alan Dershowitz Endorsing Impeachment of Any President Who ‘Corrupts the Office’ and ‘Abuses Trust’

‘We look at whether they try to subvert the constitution’

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DERSHOWITZ: “It certainly doesn’t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don't need a technical crime. But remember that because the executive power is vested in one person, the president, unlike the judicial power which is vested in justices of the Supreme Court or inferior judges, or the legislative power in a hundred senators and 400-something representatives, we have one president. And to impeach a president is like a non-violent revolution. It is the most dramatic act of undoing democracy that is possible, and that's why the Framers used the term 'treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors' to suggest the English analogy to great offenses of state.”

(Via Mediaite)

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