Trump's Impeachment & using the 25th Amendment is Unconstitutional.
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Efforts by the House of Representatives to rush the impeachment and push Vice President Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment are unconstitutional.
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| 0:00.0 | Today the President of the United States will be impeached for the second time. |
| 0:05.8 | It will be unconstitutional. |
| 0:07.8 | You'll hear why on the Dersh show. |
| 0:09.2 | Yesterday the Congress tried to pressure Vice President Pence to improperly and unp |
| 0:10.0 | The Congress tried to pressure Vice President Pence to improperly and |
| 0:14.8 | unconstitutionally invoke the 25th Amendment. You'll hear why that was wrong as |
| 0:19.0 | well on the Dershore show. Today will be a historic day in American constitutional law. |
| 0:32.2 | Our Constitution has survived and endured for more than 200 years longer than any |
| 0:38.0 | Constitution in the history of humankind. And yet today in an effort to end the presidency of Donald Trump a few |
| 0:49.2 | days before the Constitution ends his presidency the First Amendment, will distort the First Amendment, will distort the First Amendment, |
| 1:03.0 | will distort the criteria for impeachment, |
| 1:08.0 | and will do grave future damage |
| 1:12.0 | to provision. grave future damage to provisions of our Constitution that not only protect sitting |
| 1:18.6 | presidents but all Americans who engage in the freedom of speech which is the loadstone of our democracy. |
| 1:30.0 | We will see a president of the United States impeached today by an overwhelming vote, including |
| 1:38.6 | probably every Democrat, maybe one or two exceptions and several Republicans all of whom are thinking |
| 1:46.5 | short term about partisan political advantage they can reap from this |
| 1:57.6 | ill-conceived vote without thinking through the implications not only for future presidents but for the great and important freedom of speech in the United States. |
| 2:04.3 | The idea of impeaching a president for a speech that is well within the |
| 2:10.2 | protection of our Constitution, that is well within the principles of |
| 2:14.6 | Brandenburg versus Ohio which is the leading case unanimously decided by a |
| 2:19.0 | relatively moderate Supreme Court will so undercut values that I have fought for for more |
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