Harvard Prof Says Anti-Trump Impeachment Brief Threatens Freedom of Speech of All Americans
Editorial Note: Why are the Democrats trying to hard to remove the President that they claim wasn’t elected by us, the American People? Oh, right, because we elected President Trump, and they’re scared to death that the Constitution will vindicate Trump in the legitimate American government that they, the Dems, are working overtime to destroy. It’s all so very simple when you turn off the FakeNews. The following piece originally from the Harvard Prof, published by THE HILL, with a preview and links to further editorial notes from the EPOCH TIMES Keep your eye on the ball, and don’t let the FakeNews distract you, which is the sole purpose of the never-ending FakeNews fear and misinformation campaign. -Your General In The Culture War, America’s Man’s Man. America’s Man’s Man condemns and disavows all unlawful violence.
EPOCH TIMES STORY ON HARVARD PROF. EMERITUS PIECE ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE HILL:
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that the House mpeachment brief against former President Donald Trump, which seeks to undermine Trump’s First Amendment-based argument in his defense, amounts to a dangerous broadside against the freedom of speech of all Americans.
Writing in an op-ed for The Hill, Dershowitz made a case against a key argument contained in the brief (pdf), namely that “the First Amendment does not apply at all to impeachment proceedings,” signals Congressional willingness to take aim at freedom of speech more broadly.
“The brief filed by the House managers advocating the conviction and disqualification of citizen Donald Trump contains a frontal attack on freedom of speech for all Americans,” Dershowitz wrote. “It states categorically that ‘the First Amendment does not apply at all to impeachment proceedings,’ despite the express language of that amendment prohibiting Congress from making any law, or presumably taking any other action, that abridges ‘the freedom of speech.’” Continue Reading On Epoch Times
ORIGINAL PIECE BY HARVARD PROFESSOR EMERITUS
The brief filed by the House managers advocating for the conviction and disqualification of citizen Donald Trump contains an attack on freedom of speech for all Americans. It declares that “the First Amendment does not apply at all to impeachment proceedings,” despite the express language of the First Amendment that prohibits Congress from making any law, or presumably taking other action, that curbs freedom of speech.
The brief is based on a flawed reading of history and the role of freedom of speech in governance. Its section on freedom of speech begins with a sentence which reveals its fundamental error as it claims that the “First Amendment exists to promote our democratic system.” This idea surely would have surprised the framers of the First Amendment, who believed in freedom of speech but not so much in democracy. The framers of our constitutional system thought they were building a republic with limited suffrage and many checks on democracy in the United States.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/537282-the-house-impeachment-brief-endangers-freedom-of-speech