Legal scholars pan Alan Dershowitz`s defense of Trump
(World News USA)

Washington (CNN)Legal scholars are panning new arguments championed by Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, who recently joined President Donald Trump`s legal team and is making the case that Trump cannot be impeached because he didn`t commit any crimes. In a series of interviews over the weekend, Dershowitz fleshed out his controversial views, which he said he`ll present on the Senate floor during Trump`s ongoing impeachment trial. `I will be paraphrasing the successful argument made by (Supreme Court) Justice Benjamin Curtis in the trial of (then-President) Andrew Johnson back in the 1860s, where he argued that the framers intended for impeachable conduct only to be criminal-like conduct or...