Harvard legal scholar and prominent liberal Alan Dershowitz wrote an opinion piece in The Hill newspaper, where he emphatically stated that: “President Trump is right in saying that a special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection. There was no evidence of any crime committed by the Trump administration.”
He believes it would have been better to assemble a nonpartisan commission to look into the matter, and cited similar examples in the United Kingdom and Israel. He also says that a special counsel is designed to find crimes, much like to a hammer, everything’s a nail. He decried the massive damage done by the investigation, making the political wounds from the 2016 infect and fester.
Dershowitz was absolutely right that “criminalizing political differences” undermines confidence in our system, and that people will never trust their institutions again at this rate. Today, these tools are used for political gain, but tomorrow when they are needed for outrageous abuses of power, they will have lost their meaning. His courage won’t win him friends on the crazy anti-Trump left, who are too busy setting new fires to worry about repairing the damage done by old ones.
RELATED: The Truth About McCabe’s Firing
