144 Legal Scholars Are Wrong!
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Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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144 legal scholars say that Trump's lawyers should not raise his constitutional defenses because it's "legally frivolous". 144 Legal Scholars Are Wrong!
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| 0:00.0 | Would you believe that 144 scholars have written a letter saying that if President Trump's |
| 0:08.5 | lawyers even raised any First Amendment defense, they will be engaging in unethical, unprofessional |
| 0:16.4 | conduct because they say that any First Amendment defense would be legally frivolous, |
| 0:23.5 | non-sense, the opposite is true, failure to raise a First Amendment argument in the Senate. |
| 0:30.1 | That would be disciplinary conduct worthy because that would deny the client and the American |
| 0:36.9 | people, the benefits of the adversary system and the benefits of zealous, zealous representation. |
| 0:43.6 | You'll hear why on the version. |
| 0:47.5 | The Trump Legal Defense team has just filed its brief in front of the United States Senate |
| 0:52.4 | for the trial that scheduled to begin tomorrow. |
| 0:55.3 | And according to 144 people who called themselves constitutional scholars, the lawyers who filed |
| 1:04.0 | this brief have engaged in unprofessional and unethical conduct that subjects them to |
| 1:12.2 | possible discipline, even disbarment. |
| 1:16.5 | Let me explain. |
| 1:18.9 | Just the other day, these 144 scholars, constitutional scholars issued a joint letter in which they |
| 1:29.0 | said that anyone who raises, here I'll read it, any First Amendment defense raised by President |
| 1:36.9 | Trump's attorneys would be legally frivolous. |
| 1:42.1 | Now those of you who aren't lawyers may not understand that legally frivolous is a term |
| 1:48.1 | of art. |
| 1:50.1 | Legally frivolous means the argument cannot be made ethically. |
| 1:55.0 | If you offer a legally frivolous argument, you are subjecting yourself to discipline and |
| 2:00.3 | possible disbarment. |
| 2:01.3 | So let's understand what these 144 constitutional scholars are saying. |
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