My law professor, mentor, and friend at the time, Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II, wrote a masterful critique of these bogus congressional hearings entitled "Grand Inquest." In it he provided an extensive history of the misuse of hearings for partisan and ideological purposes.
It is the Democrats who are abusing their congressional investigations for partisan and ideological purposes.
It is the Democrats who are putting forward the phony arguments about legislative purposes, such as the need for new laws and congressional oversight.
The decision by Judge Amit Mehta to authorize broad congressional investigations of the Trump administration and himself, going back to well before he was a presidential candidate, could easily have been written by a right-wing judge in the 1950s.
During the 1950s, the good old ACLU would be in court challenging abuses of congressional investigatory power, but the current ACLU has one dominant agenda, which is to oppose Trump regardless of the means used and to raise large sums of money based on this agenda.
It will never side with Trump in court, regardless of how abusive congressional committees may become and regardless of how many rights are violated.
The courts should look beneath the claimed justifications for investigations of individuals and decide whether these justifications represent the real reasons behind the issuance of subpoenas and other exercises of congressional power.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444959-alan-dershowitz-are-investigations-of-trump-the-new-mccarthyism
It is the Democrats who are abusing their congressional investigations for partisan and ideological purposes.
It is the Democrats who are putting forward the phony arguments about legislative purposes, such as the need for new laws and congressional oversight.
The decision by Judge Amit Mehta to authorize broad congressional investigations of the Trump administration and himself, going back to well before he was a presidential candidate, could easily have been written by a right-wing judge in the 1950s.
During the 1950s, the good old ACLU would be in court challenging abuses of congressional investigatory power, but the current ACLU has one dominant agenda, which is to oppose Trump regardless of the means used and to raise large sums of money based on this agenda.
It will never side with Trump in court, regardless of how abusive congressional committees may become and regardless of how many rights are violated.
The courts should look beneath the claimed justifications for investigations of individuals and decide whether these justifications represent the real reasons behind the issuance of subpoenas and other exercises of congressional power.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444959-alan-dershowitz-are-investigations-of-trump-the-new-mccarthyism
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