QQOTD: Alan 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.” (1998) ~ Alan Dershowitz , on Impeachment . Larry King Live , August 1998. ( Video clip on CNN ) “It is difficult to argue reasonably from the text [of the Constitution] that … a person can be impeached for anything less than a crime.” (2018) ~ Alan Dershowitz , in his 2018 book The Case Against Impeaching Trump . Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and academic. He is a scholar of United States constitutional law and criminal law . He has also been described as a noted civil libertarian . He began his teaching career at Harvard Law School where, in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there from 1993 until his retirement in December 2013, a...