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struggle4progress

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9. Nonsense ... preposterous ... absurd
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 08:20 AM
Sep 2020

Jan. 30, 2020, 12:07 PM EST / Updated Jan. 30, 2020, 12:11 PM EST
By Allan Smith

... Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley law school, said he thought Dershowitz's argument was "absurd and outrageous."

"It means that a president could break any law or abuse any power and say that it was for the public interest because the public interest would be served by his or her election," he said.

And Sanford Levinson, a University of Texas law professor, said Dershowitz's argument was, "on its face, preposterous" ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/nonsense-preposterous-absurd-critics-lecture-prof-dershowitz-about-trial-remarks-n1126521

Poor baby PJMcK Sep 2020 #1
Defense exhibit 1 Dread Pirate Roberts Sep 2020 #2
YES!!!! SallyHemmings Sep 2020 #14
LMAO! CottonBear Sep 2020 #3
So he's not an intellectual? GeorgeGist Sep 2020 #4
Did he keep his underwear on when he filed it? I guess CNN "rubbed him the Atticus Sep 2020 #5
... "Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest," struggle4progress Sep 2020 #6
Dershowitz quits impeachment trial struggle4progress Sep 2020 #7
Good for him Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #8
Nonsense ... preposterous ... absurd struggle4progress Sep 2020 #9
Truth is a complete defense to a charge of defamation. n/t Laelth Sep 2020 #10
The truth is an absolute defense Gothmog Sep 2020 #11
In other words, he is filing suit because CNN turned on the cameras Norbert Sep 2020 #12
When he loses. C_U_L8R Sep 2020 #13
They imply it he infers it lame54 Sep 2020 #15
Dupe, deleting. sl8 Sep 2020 #16
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