I don’t find anything he says liberal at all, so I doubt he is very much a liberal like me. Furthermore, it seems that those on the right freely reject views of supposed experts, so what makes Dershowitz special that you keep bringing him up over and over again (don’t make me search). Why you do you think he is an especially great man that you listen to his point of views and why do you reject others with similar qualifications?
He is a lifelong democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton. But he has recently been criticized by the left for defending Israel; something that’s out of fashion for most liberals now even though Chuck Schumer does too. It did, however, cost Joe Lieberman his position with the party.
Dershowitz’ big problem with the Dems and other liberals at present is that he is a pretty radical civil libertarian. Liberals used to be as well, but anymore seemingly it’s now only in the narrow issue of sex. Privacy, for example, is only revered when it comes to abortion.
I don’t particularly love Dershowitz. After all, he really is a liberal and always has been. I’m not even as big on civil liberties as he is. But I do agree with him that what we’re seeing now in American law enforcement is a serious decline in its fairness and even-handedness. Apparently some other legal scholar has written a book entitled “Three Times a Day” in which he maintains that federal laws are so vague every person in America commits a federal felony three times a day without knowing it.
I don’t want my grandchildren to grow up in a banana republic in which political parties try to gain or retain power by jailing their opponents. I’m afraid we’re very close to that right now.
Dershowitz says the same thing. I have believed it for years and years, ever since I had occasion (just to do it) to read the federal criminal statutes. At the time, I was inclined to think more in terms of once/week, but I’ll buy three times/day if the experts say it.
Dershowitz is certainly a prominent American and has been for years.
