Tag Archives: Alan Dershowitz

The Hill reports: Lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said he knows the list of names in the Jeffrey Epstein files regarding alleged clients in his international sex trafficking ring. “I know the names of the individuals. I know why they’re being suppressed. I know who’s suppressing them,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “The Sean Spicer Show.” “But I’m bound …

Newsweek reports: Attorney Alan Dershowitz believes former President Donald Trump’s conviction in his criminal hush money case will not be overturned due to the New York legal system and judges not wanting to be held “responsible” for such decisions. Dershowitz said the former president “has to appeal first through the New York system, and the New York system are all …

“I predict there will be some convictions. I think the strategy is to get bad convictions, but to get them fast in New York, in Florida, in Washington, and in Fulton County, then they’ll be reversed on appeal, but they’ll be reversed on appeal after the election. “That’s why everybody’s rushing to get these cases tried. We now know that …

Courthouse News reports: Alan Dershowitz says he was mistakenly listed as the lead attorney in Kari Lake’s suit against the Arizona secretary of state and supervisors of both Maricopa and Pima Counties. Rather than leading the legal effort to disrupt trust in Arizona’s elections, Dershowitz says he spent “merely three or four hours” on the case as an advisor to …

“If this is allowed to succeed, none of our liberties is safe. You know, today it’s a Republican who’s a target, tomorrow it’s a Democrat. And the day after tomorrow, it’s your Uncle Charlie or your nephew or your niece. There’d be no limits on what prosecutors can do to their political enemies. They’re going to do it to people …

Axios reports: Donald Trump’s former attorney Alan Dershowitz said Friday that the Department of Justice has enough evidence to indict the former president but doesn’t expect it to happen. Dershowitz said on Fox News’s “Hannity” that “there is enough evidence here to indict Trump.” “But Trump will not be indicted in my view because the evidence doesn’t pass what I …

Mediatite reports: Alan Dershowitz argued Steve Bannon was denied his constitutional right to a jury trial because his trial was held in Washington D.C., which is made up of mostly “Trump haters.” He joined Newsmax TV’s The Record Friday evening to discuss the case with host Greta Van Susteren. “What do you think of this verdict, and what do you …

The Sunday Times reports: Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer lobbied Donald Trump to pre-emptively pardon Ghislaine Maxwell during the final days of his presidency after talks with her family. Alan Dershowitz, 83, a former Harvard Law School professor, represented Epstein during the noughties and Trump during his first impeachment trial. He has since been accused of abuse by one of Epstein’s …

The Daily Beast reports: A key “Stop the Steal” attorney who tried, on Donald Trump’s behalf, to convince former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to help execute a coup and overturn the 2020 election is helping a group of Michigan poll challengers sue voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems. And according to newly filed court documents, that Trumpist attorney, Kurt …

The Hill reports: Attorney Alan Dershowitz has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Netflix over his portrayal in the documentary series “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” The $80 million lawsuit in a Florida federal court alleges that the company and the show’s producers “knowingly and deliberately misled Professor Dershowitz as to their intentions for his participation in the series.” Dershowitz, who was …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said that former Trump impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz had joined his legal team to take on Dominion Voting Systems. “It’s a big announcement this morning. I’ve got a team of lawyers, we’re going after Dominion… for free speech,” Lindell said Monday morning on Steve Bannon’s WarRoom Pandemic podcast. “Alan Dershowitz told me that this …

Reuters reports: Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, were nominated by a friendly attorney on Sunday for the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in negotiating four normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations known as the “Abraham Accords.” The deals were announced in a four-month span between mid-August and mid-December and were the …

Law & Crime reports: Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against CNN, claiming the cable news network, together with their hosts and panelists, intentionally created a false narrative about what the famed criminal defense attorney argued while defending the president during impeachment proceedings earlier this year. Dershowitz’s allegations stem from news coverage of his argument …

Forbes reports: A highly anticipated trove of old court records from a settled defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell by alleged victim Virginia Giuffre were released late Thursday evening, and reveal more information surrounding the dark saga of Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged sex ring of underage girls. Giuffre, in a May 2016 deposition, said Maxwell acted as a “helicopter pilot” …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump’s defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz now says his headline-dominating argument against impeaching the president was ‘distorted.’ In a day-after tweet, the former Harvard Law professor complained Thursday about the portrayal of his testimony at Trump’s Senate Trial that a president, if he believes his re-election is in the “national interest,” is essentially immune from …

CBS News reports: Alan Dershowitz argued that a quid pro quo involving a president’s political benefit was fine because all presidents believe their elections are in the public’s interest. Essentially, if Trump withheld nearly $400 million in aid to pressure Ukraine into announcing investigations of Democrats to help his campaign, that’s fine because Trump thinks his election is to the …

CNN’s K-File reports: Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is a member of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, said in 2016 that he believed Trump was more corrupt than Hillary Clinton and more likely to continue being corrupt as president. Dershowitz spoke on the Senate floor Monday in defense of the President. He made the 2016 comments during an appearance …

The Week reports: Saturday Night Live is back on NBC after its winter hiatus, and the cast was joined by an old friend. Jon Lovitz returned for Saturday evening’s cold open during which he portrayed President Trump’s attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was preparing to argue the president’s case in the Senate impeachment trial. As Lovitz’s Dershowitz began his remarks, he …

ABC News reports: Attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Sunday the argument that a president cannot be impeached for abusing his power is a “strong one” that has been successful in the past. Dershowitz, who’s serving as legal counsel for President Trump’s defense team in the Senate impeachment trial, told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” that he is following in …

CNBC reports: President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team will include Ken Starr, whose investigation led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, whose clients have included notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Trump team choices came to light as the impeachment trial is set to begin in earnest next Tuesday in the Senate. “The president …