Lawyer Alan Dershowitz bashed his former student Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday, calling his questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “absurd.”
During Jackson’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Cruz asked her whether a transgender person can have the legal standing necessary to bring a gender discrimination lawsuit. Dershowitz, who taught Cruz at Harvard Law School, which Jackson also attended, expressed discontent with his former student’s question.
“Tell me, does that same principle apply to other protected characteristics?” Cruz asked Jackson on Wednesday. “For example, I am a Hispanic man. Could I decide I was an Asian man and challenge Harvard’s discrimination because of that decision?”
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In a livestream video on Rumble, Dershowitz said, “No! You don’t — you can’t change into somebody who’s Asian … you can’t do that.”
Dershowitz also said he hoped Cruz didn’t learn his questioning methodology from him at Harvard, adding that it would be “bigotry” to “discriminate against somebody who changed genders if they wanted to serve as a judge.”
“People have the right to choose how to live their lives,” Dershowitz said, noting he has two friends who have grandchildren who have changed genders and “in both cases, they’re living much, much happier lives with the gender change …”
Dershowitz has otherwise lauded Cruz. He described Cruz as “one of the best students I ever had, because a teacher loves to be challenged” on Megyn Kelly’s Kelly File in April 2016.
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During the 2016 interview, the former Harvard professor said he used the Socratic method. “Everything I said, [Cruz] disagreed with,” Dershowitz said. “And he made such brilliant arguments that I never had to play the devil’s advocate.”
Dershowitz, a self-described centrist liberal known for his political commentary, has often pushed back on conservative positions in Washington but has recently been more amicable to GOP fights, including being part of former President Donald Trump’s legal team for his first impeachment trial.
