One of the top constitutional law experts in the country is backing President Trump’s executive powers to restart shuttered local economies against the wishes of state lawmakers.

On Tuesday, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who led Trump’s Senate impeachment defense, said the president “has ultimate authority when it comes to reopening.”

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