Dershowitz: No obstruction when POTUS exercises constitutional authority

He was pretty clear on CNN last night. Gave the example of Elder Bush pardoning Caspar Weinberger the night before a congressional hearing and yet Cooper wouldn't hear what he was saying.

He kept saying Trump subtly tried to get Comey to drop the investigation.

Alan flat out said the president doesn't need to be subtle. He can shut it down by looking at Comey and saying. Stop the investigation. He can also pardon Flynn to shut it down.

Cooper looked at him perplexed.

Authority doesn't make it right

Dershowitz is full of sh1t. In his mind, if a president has the authority to do something, then he cannot be impeached for it.

That is an oxymoron.

This has been posted here and elsewhere several times: High crimes and misdemeanors is whatever the House determines it to be.

I'm not quoting the following to suggest that these are impeachable offenses or not, but just as a counter to Dershowitz' absolutist position.

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Since 1386, the English parliament had used the term “high crimes and misdemeanors” to describe one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown. Officials accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” were accused of offenses as varied as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, helping “suppress petitions to the King to call a Parliament,” granting warrants without cause, and bribery.

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Source: Wikipedia - Topic: "High Crimes and Misdemenors": citing - Lindorff, Dave; Olshansky, Barbara (2006). The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-312-36016-0. Retrieved 30 January 2017.

Dersh will be ride or die for Trump as long as there's a chance he'll bomb Iran

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Congress can call just about anything they want a "high crime" and impeach the POTUS. And that is EXACTLY what the Professor said last night, you're just too stupid to understand it.

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You know what? You're an imbecile.

I didn't say anything about a criminal charge. And I said : High crimes and misdemeanors is whatever the House determines it to be."

You just got some "neat-o point" you want to make every time you get the chance, because you think it makes you look good.

Did you even read my post or did just jump on it because it was sort of on the same topic as your "neat-o point".

Calling me a moron doesn't make you appear any smarter. And, in this case, because you are wrong, it makes you look like a dunce.

It's like saying that you can't commit perjury because you have the right to freedom of speech.

The means can't justify the ends. Doesn't work like that.

Also weren't most of you calling him a pedo this time last year or was that someone else?

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You know what? You're an imbecile.

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I'm an imbecile ? you're the idiot who thinks the President can't be impeached for doing something that was within his lawful authority.

Andrew Johnson was impeached in exactly that manner you moron. Congress can impeach the POTUS for any reason they so choose. There is ZERO authority that can stop them. The House could literally say "this guy tweets too much and is undermining his own government" vote to impeach him and send it to the Senate who could find him guilty and boom hes out of office. Now is that likely? No of course not, but it proves the fricking point, you are wrong when you say if it was legal for the President to do something he couldn't be impeached for it.

You should be embarrassed for yourself sir. I'm quite embarrassed for you.

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I'm an imbecile ? you're the idiot who thinks the President can't be impeached for doing something that was within his lawful authority.

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It's is absolutely amazing how many assholes on here, when they get called on something and proven wrong, instead of just walking away, they just distort what the other person said and just keep on arguing. That is what you just did.

It is completely dishonest, but it appears honestly is not a requirement for posting (certainly that is the case with you).

You say that "you're (meaning me) the idiot who thinks the President can't be impeached for doing something that was within his lawful authority."

What I said was

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Dershowitz is full of sh1t. In his mind, if a president has the authority to do something, then he cannot be impeached for it.

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You just said that I said the exact opposite.

You are an inveterate, barefaced, liar.


(The only question is, are you going to give it up, or make up another lie? What's it going to be?)

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It's like saying that you can't commit perjury because you have the right to freedom of speech.

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That was a really good analogy.