Professors Dershowitz Wades In By Chris Knight (Florida)

US constitution law professor, Alan Dershowitz has commented upon the legalities, or lack of them, of the FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Largo mansion. First there was unequal treatment under the law, as Hillary Clinton was not investigated or raided by the FBI. Dershowitz said, “You need equal treatment. Garland talked about even-handed treatment: equity, equality. … Hillary Clinton walks around with a hat now saying, ‘BUT HER EMAILS,’ and that’s a good argument. Why aren’t they treated the same? If I had said that Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted and then said that Donald Trump shouldn’t be, that would be very inconsistent, but I would never make such an argument.” The search thus, was without justification.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/15/218313211/

“Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, author of The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences, noted on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak that former first lady Hillary Clinton “wasn’t investigated,” “searched,” or “subject to criminal prosecution” for her mishandling of classified information during his remarks on news media allegations that former President Donald Trump had criminally removed classified documents from the White House.

“She wasn’t investigated,” Dershowitz recalled. “She wasn’t locked up. She wasn’t searched. She wasn’t subject to a criminal prosecution, and so the shoe-on-the-other-foot argument cuts completely against her.”

Dershowitz emphasized the need for equal treatment under the law regardless of partisan or political affiliation. The FBI’s raid on Trump’s home Mar-a-Lago demonstrated unequal treatment reflected unequal treatment, he determined, when compared with former FBI Director James Comey’s public statements regarding the decision not to prosecute Clinton for use of a private server through which she conducted government communications in her former capacity as U.S. secretary of state.

He said, “You need equal treatment. Garland talked about even-handed treatment: equity, equality. … Hillary Clinton walks around with a hat now saying, ‘BUT HER EMAILS,’ and that’s a good argument. Why aren’t they treated the same? If I had said that Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted and then said that Donald Trump shouldn’t be, that would be very inconsistent, but I would never make such an argument.”

The FBI’s raid of Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, FL, was an attempt to get around the former president’s constitutional rights, Dershowitz said. Such a search, he added, was without justification.”