“The president is entitled to fire the head of the FBI,” Dershowitz said. “The president is entitled to direct his attorney general who to investigate, who not to. That’s what the law has been since Thomas Jefferson directed his attorney general to go after Aaron Burr.”
If the law is to be changed, it must be done by a legislature, not a prosecutor, the professor insisted.
“I don’t see that the prosecutor should have a right to turn a constitutionally protected act of the president into a crime by speculating on what his motive might have been,” Dershowitz said, adding, “These are political sins if they are sins at all. They are not crimes.”
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Dershowitz is an uber-liberal. I'd bet that he voted for Hillary. When Dershowitz says Mueller is out-of-bounds, people should believe him. If Mueller's behavior was even marginally acceptable Dershowitz would remain silent.
ReplyDeleteHe follows the legal path precisely.
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