Timothy Birdnow

Alan Dershowitz says withholding the impeachment from the Senate is unconstitutional.

From Newsmax:

It is difficult to imagine anything more unconstitutional, more violative of the intention of the Framers, more of a denial of basic due process and civil liberties, more unfair to the president and more likely to increase the current divisiveness among the American people. Put bluntly, it is hard to imagine a worse idea put forward by good people

Denying President Trump and the American people a trial in the Senate would constitute a variation on the title of my new book, "Guilt by Accusation."

President Trump would stand accused of two articles of impeachment without having an opportunity to be acquitted by the institution selected by the Framers to try all cases of impeachment. It would be as if a prosecutor deliberately decided to indict a criminal defendant but not to put him on trial.

This would deny him the right to confront his accusers and to disprove the charges against him. Tribe himself uses a variant of this analogy.

The President has the right to a trial if charged. Read the Sixth Amendment! It is one of the most fundamental rights in the Constitution. 

What the Democrats are trying to do is deny the President his basic human rights. This is better suited to Venezuela or China than a free society.

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