"Maybe the question isn't what happened to Alan Dershowitz. Maybe it's
what happened to everyone else."--Politico
Alan Dershowitz has been called "one of the most prominent and
consistent defenders of civil liberties in America" by Politico and
"the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its
most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. Yet he
has come under partisan fire for applying those same principles to
Donald Trump during the course of his many appearances in national media
outlets as an expert resource on civil and constitutional law.
The Case Against Impeaching Trump seeks to reorient the debate
over impeachment to the same standard that Dershowitz has continued to
uphold for decades: the law of the United States of America, as
established by the Constitution. In the author's own words:
"In the fervor to impeach President Trump, his political enemies have
ignored the text of the Constitution. As a civil libertarian who voted
against Trump, I remind those who would impeach him not to run roughshod
over a document that has protected us all for two and a quarter
centuries. In this case against impeachment, I make arguments similar to
those I made against the impeachment of President Bill Clinton (and that
I would be making had Hillary Clinton been elected and Republicans were
seeking to impeach her). Impeachment and removal of a president are not
entirely political decisions by Congress. Every member takes an oath to
uphold the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution sets
out specific substantive criteria that MUST be met.
I am thrilled to contribute to this important debate and especially that
my book will be so quickly available to readers so they can make up
their own minds."
