Category: Alan Dershowitz

Dershowitz: New Trump Witness Testimony May Have Sunk Manhattan DA’s Grand Jury Investigation

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s reported criminal case against former President Donald Trump may have been thrown off this week after a lawyer in Trump’s orbit testified, said retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz appeared in a Fox News interview Tuesday and speculated that Costell’s testimony may have significantly altered the trajectory of the case….


Alan Dershowitz: Trump Can Serve as President ‘From Prison’

Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz suggested that former President Donald Trump could run for office or even serve as president if he is convicted in connection to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office investigation. Trump announced on social media this past weekend saying he believes he’ll be arrested soon in connection to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s…


Trump Indictment Would Probably Be Overturned on Appeal: Dershowitz

If former President Donald Trump is indicted, he’ll probably be convicted but an appeal would likely lead to the conviction being thrown out, legal expert Alan Dershowitz said on March 18. “I don’t think there will be a motion to dismiss that succeeds. This is New York justice. In New York, of course you can…


Trump Conviction Would Probably Be Overturned on Appeal: Dershowitz

If former President Donald Trump is indicted, he’ll probably be convicted but an appeal would likely lead to the conviction being thrown out, legal expert Alan Dershowitz said on March 18. “I don’t think there will be a motion to dismiss that succeeds. This is New York justice. In New York, of course you can…


Dershowitz Predicts Neither Biden or Trump Will Be Prosecuted for Classified Documents

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz doesn’t believe that either former Republican President Donald Trump or his successor, Democratic President Joe Biden, will be prosecuted as a result of the potentially classified documents either one had in their possession while out of office. In an interview with Fox News, Dershowitz predicted that neither Trump nor…


Dershowitz Predicts Neither Biden nor Trump Will Be Prosecuted for Classified Documents

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz doesn’t believe that either former Republican President Donald Trump or his successor, Democratic President Joe Biden, will be prosecuted as a result of the potentially classified documents either one had in their possession while out of office. In an interview with Fox News, Dershowitz predicted that neither Trump nor…


Dershowitz: Biden Classified Documents Finding Undermines Trump Prosecution

Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said that the discovery that President Joe Biden kept classified documents from when he was vice president undermines arguments to prosecute former President Donald Trump. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August was raided by FBI agents as prosecutors alleged that he kept classified records There. But this week, Biden’s lawyers…


Alan Dershowitz Asks Judge to Be Excused From Sanctions Linked to Kari Lake Lawsuit

Retired Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz said he wasn’t part of the legal team that represented Kari Lake and Mark Finchem in connection to a lawsuit that was filed in early 2022 and later rejected. In 2022, U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi tossed filings by Lake and fellow Republican Mark Finchem. Months later,…


Alan Dershowitz: Jan. 6 Panel’s Criminal Referral of Trump ‘Clearly Unconstitutional’

The House Jan. 6 committee’s referral of former President Donald J. Trump to the Justice Department for prosecution violates the U.S. Constitution, according to Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz. The committee, comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans, voted unanimously to refer Trump for four criminal charges during its last hearing on Dec. 19,…


Dershowitz Warns Against Reducing Independence of Israeli Supreme Court

Alan Dershowitz, a prominent U.S. lawyer, urged the incoming Israeli government coalition to reconsider planned legal reforms that would weaken the nation’s Supreme Court. “It would be a terrible, terrible mistake for an override to be permitted by the Knesset [the Israeli parliament] in Israel,” he said in a video message published on Dec. 2…