Dershowitz, legally speaking, is 100x smarter than ALL of us combined. He's also 100% spot on, and you're laughing at his 50 years of experience because he has a different legal opinion than you do. Imagine that, a Harvard student with 50 years of experience, knowing less than you and your how many years of legal experience?Originally Posted by pete311
Laugh as you like, as I laugh at you for even dreaming you knew more about the law than Dershowitz.
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Pirro followed up, asking if receiving valuable information from a foreign national could be prosecuted under campaign finance laws.
“Of course not,” replied Dershowitz. “If it were to be prosecuted the First Amendment would trump. A candidate has a right to get information from whatever source the information comes. It’s like The New York Times publishing the Pentagon papers case or the Washington Post publishing material stolen by Snowden and Manning. You don’t prosecute the newspaper and you don’t prosecute the candidate or the candidate’s son. If the material was obtained unlawfully you prosecute if you can the people who obtain the material. But there is a First Amendment right of a candidate to use information. So you can’t include information under the campaign finance law, that would be unconstitutional."
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So what is he incorrect about, Pete? The first amendment wouldn't trump? And WHY would he be wrong? Not just stating it, show us why.
If the NY Times, or WAPO or CNN literally published a "dossier" that included all of the same information, would it have been illegal for Trump Jr, or others, to possess said information and/or use it for a campaign? If you disagree with him, WHY? And be specific.
Why weren't the publications held accountable and prosecuted in some manner for the data they worked on and received? Please explain in an acceptable manner for me.
Are you stating that a candidate DOES NOT have the 1st amendment right to use information as such? For example, Hillary read/heard about things during the campaign, and her AND many others, including other candidates, took such information and ran with it. Was that illegal of them to do? Even if the information emanated from Russia? Please explain WHY if you say it is in fact illegal.
Thx in advance!
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