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The Dershow

144 Legal Scholars Are Wrong!

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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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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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