(01-29-2020, 06:46 PM)Gabe Wrote:

(01-29-2020, 05:06 PM)mikesez Wrote: Dershowitz is basically correct, but each senator should make up his own mind about whether what Trump did was in the public interest or not.
If it was only about corruption in general, and didn't affect things on Ukraine's front lines, maybe it was in the US public interest.
But if it was just specific to the Bidens and crowdstrike, that's not in the US public interest at all.  That's partisan.

I didn't take it to mean that at all. 

If the claim is that the president's re-election is in the national interest, therefore doing whatever necessary to achieve said re-election (inferring that includes the solicitation of foreign assistance in doing so) isn't impeachable...that's a hell of a slippery slope. 

Am I not hearing the Dershword Salad with ranch correctly?

I read more of what Dershowitz said, and it sounds like you understood him correctly.  
He's wrong.  
The US Constitution can never work this way.

What if Obama had sent some FBI spooks to provoke riots in Republican heavy parts of swing atates, and then cracked down on those riots right before election day?
He would be allowed to do that, right? If he thinks his party winning the election is in the national interest?

Any Senator voting to acquit must publicly reject Dershowitz' argument or else forfeit their claim to be supporting and defending the Constitution.

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