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Dershowitz: Trump, Netanyahu Both Prosecuted for Phony Crimes
Dershowitz: Trump, Netanyahu Both Prosecuted for Phony Crimes
Both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are being prosecuted for actions that have not been "explicitly made criminal," Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz argues in an opinion piece while pointing out the similarities and differences in their cases.
"The most striking similarity is that both are being investigated for actions that their legislatures have not explicitly made criminal," Dershowitz says in the article for Gatestone Institute. "Moreover, no legislature in any country governed by the rule of law would ever enact a general statute criminalizing such conduct."
But instead, the investigations of both are being based on "general laws" that were never used to apply to the conduct deemed at issue, but instead stretched to target them, said Dershowitz. Netanyahu, he explained, has been indicted on charges of bribery for allegedly agreeing to help a media company in exchange for more positive coverage, which does not constitute the crime with which he's being charged, said Dershowitz.
Further, the Knesset, Israel's legislature, would not make it a crime to cast a vote in exchange for good media coverage, he said.
ME: Two great men trying to be taken down by evil forces. Liberalism is truly evil
Dershowitz: Trump, Netanyahu Both Prosecuted for Phony Crimes
Both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are being prosecuted for actions that have not been "explicitly made criminal," Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz argues in an opinion piece while pointing out the similarities and differences in their cases.
"The most striking similarity is that both are being investigated for actions that their legislatures have not explicitly made criminal," Dershowitz says in the article for Gatestone Institute. "Moreover, no legislature in any country governed by the rule of law would ever enact a general statute criminalizing such conduct."
But instead, the investigations of both are being based on "general laws" that were never used to apply to the conduct deemed at issue, but instead stretched to target them, said Dershowitz. Netanyahu, he explained, has been indicted on charges of bribery for allegedly agreeing to help a media company in exchange for more positive coverage, which does not constitute the crime with which he's being charged, said Dershowitz.
Further, the Knesset, Israel's legislature, would not make it a crime to cast a vote in exchange for good media coverage, he said.
ME: Two great men trying to be taken down by evil forces. Liberalism is truly evil
