Alan Dershowitz shoots down impeachment witness claims

Published December 4, 2019 6:40pm ET



As constitutional scholars laid out criteria before Congress to impeach President Trump, law professor Alan Dershowitz attempted to poke a hole in the narrative that experts attempted to paint.

“Professor Gerhardt says that we teach our law students always to comply with congressional subpoenas,” Dershowitz tweeted during the hearings Wednesday. “No. We teach our students that we have an adversary system which permits the executive to challenge legislative actions.”

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