Who's trying to abolish the constitution?
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dershow. As I have been saying for the last 60 years, the extreme right |
| 0:10.8 | and the extreme left are much closer together ideologically than either is to the center |
| 0:18.6 | on their side. In other words, the extreme left is much closer to the extreme right than |
| 0:23.8 | for example, the extreme left is to liberals like me. I hate the extreme left. I'm appalled by |
| 0:31.2 | their intolerance and their unwillingness to accept free speech and do process. And the extreme |
| 0:38.9 | right there is almost no resemblance to true conservatives, to people who really want to |
| 0:45.0 | limit state power, et cetera. Now, the most recent example that appears in the New York Times |
| 0:53.9 | today and a couple of weeks ago, both the extreme right and the extreme left now on a trash |
| 1:01.9 | the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution is the longest serving |
| 1:07.0 | constitution in the history of humankind. That's a pretty good, pretty good statement to make |
| 1:13.2 | about something. It has survived the civil war. It has survived the civil rights movement. It |
| 1:20.8 | has survived so many things. It has changed and adapted over time. Is it perfect? Of course not. |
| 1:28.1 | I disagree with many of the provisions of the Bill of Rights. If I had to write the Bill of Rights |
| 1:33.6 | all over again, I would write the Second Amendment very differently. Right now it's incoherent. |
| 1:38.7 | You can't understand what the relationship is between the Second Clause and the First Clause deals |
| 1:46.6 | with well-regulated militias and the Second Clause deals with the right to bear arms. Is the |
| 1:52.0 | right to bear arms limited by the state's power to regulate its militias? Is it independent right? |
| 1:58.7 | Then what do you need the preliminary statement about the reasons for it being in a well-regulated |
| 2:04.9 | militia? That's just one example. There are so many examples. Search and seizure. |
| 2:11.0 | The Constitution is just unclear when you need a warrant, when you don't need a warrant, whether |
| 2:17.3 | the search of the Trump Mar-a-Lago would be consistent with the Fourth Amendment. There are so many |
| 2:23.7 | provisions and the Constitution has been amended 27 times. Sometimes in the most fundamental |
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