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Dershowitz: Maine Ruling Like Letting Ex-Confederate States Decide Who Can Run (www.breitbart.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dershowitz said, “The 14th Amendment provides in Section 5 that Congress, not the states, Congress can enforce this provision. Now, remember who wrote the 14th Amendment, Radical Republican reconstructionists who didn’t trust the states. They would never have left the decision [on] who can run for president to South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama, members of the Confederacy. Of course they left it only to Congress. The idea that states, one at a time, can decide who’s disqualified is the most absurd reading of a constitutional provision I have ever seen.”

...okay, that's actually a plausible argument.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dershowitz is a prime example of many people agreeing/disagreeing with him are partisan.

Dershowitz is a liberal. Always has been. He also is a Democrat.

The point is he tries to give his opinion on the law even if it conflicts with his politics. He has defended Trump many times, not because he likes Trump but because he believes in the law. I love reading his opinions because he makes you think about things from a legal perspective and not from a political perspective.

I agree with what he says here because it sounds logical.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't like the guy, but I respect him. How you describe him is spot on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I respect the hell out of him. He will throw politics aside to defend the law. We need more people like him. Most people just parrot their politics.