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The Dershow

Trump's Impeachment & using the 25th Amendment is Unconstitutional.

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 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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