Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax on Wednesday that “the Democrats are 100% correct in dismissing all the articles of impeachment” against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “that don’t allege treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
“Remember, these same Republicans supported my argument when I argued for Trump in front of the Senate, saying he wasn’t charged with impeachable offenses,” Dershowitz said during an appearance on “Wake Up America.” “Neither is Mayorkas. They can preserve the perjury charge, but these charges that he failed to obey the law, that he failed to administer the law, they’re not constitutionally permissible and the Democrats are 100% right in dismissing every one of the charges that doesn’t fit the constitutional criteria for impeachment.
“The Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to play politics with this by taking one position when Trump was impeached and an inconsistent position when Mayorkas is impeached,” he continued. “If there are any charges that constitute high crimes and misdemeanors, fine, go forward with them, but strike all the charges that don’t allege high crimes and misdemeanors. You can’t just make up impeachable offenses. It’s in the Constitution — treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. That doesn’t include failing to apply the law, doesn’t include maladministration. All of those were rejected by the frames of the Constitution back in the 18th century.”
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