Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz went on Newsmax on Tuesday to blast Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for urging protesters in Minneapolis to “get more confrontational” last weekend, saying that she is trying to “influence” and “intimidate” the jury.
He went so far as to say that Waters is taking a page out of the Ku Klux Klan’s playbook to influence court cases by threatening violence.
“We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business,” Waters said to protesters last weekend.
Dershowitz Shoots Down Waters
“First of all, the judge should have granted the motion for a mistrial based on the efforts of Congresswoman Waters to influence the jury,” Dershowitz declared.
“Her message was clearly intended to get to the jury — ‘If you will acquit or if you find the charge less than murder, we will burn down your buildings,” he added. “We will burn down your businesses. We will attack you. We will do what happened to the witness — blood on their door.’”
“This was an attempt to intimidate the jury,” Dershowitz continued. “It’s borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person.”
Dershowitz Says Waters Could Cause ‘Mistrial’
“And so, efforts to intimidate a jury should result in a mistrial with the judge, of course, wouldn’t grant a mistrial because then he’d be responsible for the riots that would ensue, even though it was Waters who was responsible,” he said.
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Dershowitz went on to predict that Chauvin’s case “will go to the Court of Appeals. And will the Court of Appeals have the courage to reverse this conviction on the ground … that the jury was subjected to intimidation tactics, not only by Waters but by others as well who threatened violence in the event of an acquittal or a lesser charge than murder.”
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This piece was written by James Samson on April 21, 2021. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.
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It was the Democrats who invented the Ku Klux Klan that backed and continues to back Planned Parenthood today, who got its start at a Klan rally.
I find it strange PI that you would allow the opine of Alan Dershowitz in this matter to be seen, I find it odd because when many of us try express much the same, you want to moderate agreement out of existence…..Why is that?…….Impeach and remove Maxine Waters for inciting violence and undermining the jury…
It's truly impossible for dumbed-down, Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, indoctrinated, Trump-obsessed, GOP et al.-obsessed, liberal cud-chewers like ewe to stay on topic. The primitive brain function is a severe hinderance to any semblance of normal behavior. Hilarious.
Oklahoma’s GOP Governor Signs Law to Protect Drivers Who Kill Protesters With Their Car
Oklahoma’s Republican governor signed off on a bill Wednesday that gives more legal protection to drivers who run over and kill protesters. The state Senate passed the controversial GOP-sponsored legislation last week and Gov. Kevin Stitt has now signed the bill into law. It states that drivers will not be “criminally or civilly liable for the injury or death” of a protester if they’re “fleeing from a riot,” and believe that fleeing is “necessary to protect [them] from serious injury or death.” The bill also makes it a misdemeanor to block a public street during a protest—an act that is now punishable by a year in prison or a $5,000 fine. A group protesting the new laws broke into the State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. In a statement, Stitt insisted he remains “unequivocally committed” to protecting the right to “peacefully protest.”
And Justice for all? MAGA
Oh boy, that's going to tear his world up…losing your respect will devastate him!
What a nítwit this little girl Abbie is.
He's hardly been a Liberal. He believes that American Muslims have no First Amendment rights. He also believes that if you are anti-Zionist, you are anti-Semitic. I am Jewish. I am not a supporter of Israel. Doucheowitz does not speak for THIS Jew.
You should still have a lot of respect for Prof. Dershowitz. He is a Constitutional Scholar and there aren't that many like him around. He is a Liberal Democrat but doesn't care about the politics of his clients. That makes him a man among men.
And to think I once had some respect for Doucheowitz…
Maxipad is now the KKK handmaiden
Impeach 46..
Maybe Waters actions will incentivize the truly radical — from the right side of the spectrum, like real militia groups. Then the incident at the Congress in January will look like John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry compared to the battle at Sharpsburg/Antietam.
Watch out Alan Dershowitz! You may be a law professor, but mad Maxine has the race card, and has no hesitation about playing it. It may not help in a battle of wits even if your opponent is unarmed.
Don't go talking about yourself like that
Impeach 46..
Black people are a negative force in politics. Their right to vote should be taken away. They are ignorant, stupid and blame everyone but themselves for their problems.
The democrat party is still the party of the klan, just a different incarnation.
Advocating lynchings. That's mighty white of you.
Hope so I think we should start with mad max then big al sharpton what do you think ?
My "tribe"? You goyim are pathetic.
Unlike your tribe we revere the cross and what it stands for no burning just prayers . Marxist scum .
Don't you have a cross-burning to attend?
One of you men go down to the livery stable and get a rope !