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2019-05-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Dershowitz: Mueller Just Put His Elbow On The Scale And Revealed His Partisan Bias
[Hot Air] Alan Dershowitz had a strong reaction to Mueller’s statement earlier today. Dershowitz wrote a piece for the Hill saying that prior to today he didn’t believe Mueller has a horse in this race. But after his statement today, Dershowitz believes he was wrong. He says Mueller effective put his elbow on the scales of justice today:
The statement by special counsel Robert Mueller in a Wednesday press conference that "if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said that" is worse than the statement made by then FBI Director James Comey regarding Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign...

Comey was universally criticized for going beyond his responsibility to state whether there was sufficient evidence to indict Clinton. Mueller, however, did even more. He went beyond the conclusion of his report and gave a political gift to Democrats in Congress who are seeking to institute impeachment proceedings against President Trump. By implying that President Trump might have committed obstruction of justice, Mueller effectively invited Democrats to institute impeachment proceedings. Obstruction of justice is a "high crime and misdemeanor" which, under the Constitution, authorizes impeachment and removal of the president.

Until today, I have defended Mueller against the accusations that he is a partisan. I did not believe that he personally favored either the Democrats or the Republicans, or had a point of view on whether President Trump should be impeached. But I have now changed my mind. By putting his thumb, indeed his elbow, on the scale of justice in favor of impeachment based on obstruction of justice, Mueller has revealed his partisan bias.

In some ways, Dershowitz isn’t saying anything that different from what Judge Napolitano said earlier today. Napolitano also thought that Mueller’s statement was a message to Democrats in Congress that he would have indicted Trump if he could have. And as Ed noted, that’s exactly how several Democrats interpreted it. All Dershowitz is adding is that Mueller’s effort to give Democrats a push looks pretty partisan.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-30 05:43|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Actually, Mueller's investigatory team selection revealed his "partisan bias", not to mention is past political associations.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-30 06:20||   2019-05-30 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem Dershowitz, and so many like him, has is the inability to analyse the fact that the meta-party, aka Deep State, is the source of his partisanship.

It's not Democrats that he's trying to support it is the insiders, like himself, that has Mueller's loyalty. Trump's cardinal sin is not to belong to that party.
Posted by AlanC 2019-05-30 07:03||   2019-05-30 07:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Dershowitz is the master of understatement. What's Mueller trying to cover up? That needs to be looked into.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-05-30 08:32||   2019-05-30 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 So investigate Mueller for unlawful prosecution.

Alan Dershowitz: Boston Remembers Mueller Protected Whitey Bulger. "He's the guy who kept four innocent people in prison for many years in order to protect the cover of Whitey Bulger as an FBI informer. Those of us in Boston don't have such a high regard for Mueller because we remember this story. The government had to pay out tens of millions of dollars because Whitey Bulger, a notorious mass murderer, became a government informer against the mafia.
Posted by Woodrow 2019-05-30 09:43||   2019-05-30 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 he would have indicted Trump if he could have

And that was stated on what page of the 447 page Volume 2? Did he lead off the report with the statement, "I can't indite a sitting president, however, here are the crimes the Congress should consider"? No? He's making a new conclusion?

How convenient.
Posted by Bobby 2019-05-30 09:53||   2019-05-30 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Put him under oath and make him repeat it. Or better yet, recall him to active duty as a Marine and then force him to testify, so when you charge him with lying, it's under the USMCJ, not the regular civilian laws. Make sure nobody above the rank of captain is on his jury. Or if he was enlisted, make sure it's all sergeants.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-05-30 14:38||   2019-05-30 14:38|| Front Page Top

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