House Impeachment Brief Against Trump Threatens Freedom of Speech of All Americans: Dershowitz

House Impeachment Brief Against Trump Threatens Freedom of Speech of All Americans: Dershowitz
President Donald Trump greets the crowd at the "Stop The Steal" Rally in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
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Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that the House impeachment brief against former President Donald Trump, which seeks to undermine Trump’s First Amendment-based argument in his defense, amounts to a dangerous broadside against the freedom of speech of all Americans.

Writing in an op-ed for The Hill, Dershowitz made a case against a key argument contained in the brief (pdf), namely that “the First Amendment does not apply at all to impeachment proceedings,” signals Congressional willingness to take aim at freedom of speech more broadly.
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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