A Democrat Defending Trump
From the print edition of The New American
Trumped Up: How Criminalization of Political Differences Endangers Democracy, by Alan Dershowitz, New York: Post Hill Press, 2017, 193 pages, paperback.
Alan Dershowitz, professor of law emeritus at Harvard Law School, is a well-known Democrat liberal. But he is also a fierce advocate of civil liberties — including the civil liberties of those with whom he disagrees. In fact, he dedicates Trumped Up to “the shrinking number of true civil libertarians who place more importance on the rights and liberties of all Americans than on the partisan benefits of distorting the law to target political enemies.”
And right now, this makes Dershowitz a frequent defender of President Donald Trump — in spite of his disagreement with Trump on many issues. For Dershowitz, this means that we should “substitute rational discussion for polemical demands for criminalization of political differences.”
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