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The Dershow

Impeachment Predictions

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

So far my impeachment predictions have been spot on. In today's show I give my next set of predictions and compare them with other pundits and legal scholars.

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0:00.0

The Article of impeachment has been delivered to the House of Representatives

0:05.4

unconstitutionally in my view. I predicted, you heard it, that the Chief Justice

0:11.3

would not preside, that the Vice President would not preside,

0:14.8

and that Senate a lady would preside.

0:16.8

Prediction one has come true.

0:18.2

I also have predicted that the Senate will go forward with a trial though it's unconstitutional and that they will

0:24.3

ultimately acquit on the ground that they have no jurisdiction.

0:29.0

So you've heard my predictions, you can test them and now you'll hear why I make those predictions on the dirt show.

0:35.0

Last night we watched as house managers led by my former student Jamie Raskin walked the article of impeachment

0:46.3

from the House to the Senate. Ironically they walked through the very areas

0:51.8

that just weeks before had been taken over by violent

0:56.0

protesters who illegally and unlawfully and unlawfully and improperly had taken over the Capitol. But yesterday we saw a

1:06.8

peaceful march of members of Congress seeking to deliver the article of impeachment to the Senate.

1:15.0

What we saw was peaceful, but it was unlawful,

1:19.0

unlawful and unconstitutional,

1:22.0

for several reasons, as you've heard before on the on the

1:25.7

Dersh show first the article of impeachment itself violates the Constitution

1:30.0

because the charges the president with a high crime and misdemeanor for delivering a constitutionally protected speech.

1:36.7

So that's point number one where what they did yesterday in going to the Senate with the article of impeachment was

1:44.7

Unconstitutional it put them above the law no one is above the law we hear that over and over again from members of Congress and that applies to everybody but members of Congress.

1:53.0

So that was violation number one.

1:55.0

Violation number two, they sought a trial in the Senate of a former

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