"What Happened To Dershowitz?" - Why I Suspect Dershowitz Wants Republicans To Retain Control Of Congress Next Year

And just one more reason for me to hate Harvard Law 

READ LAST NIGHT that Alan Dershowitz has announced he will be working to make sure that Republicans win the 2026 election,  I interpret that to mean he will be lying, hedging, shaving the truth past the point of lying while technically not lying - if you want to pretend you don't see through that,  just something lawyers are trained to do,  to try to ensure that Republicans win the election because that's what Dershowitz does.   

For anyone who doesn't believe that, there is an especially good example of that in this discussion by Norman Finkelstein about how Dershowitz slandered his mother, a death camp survivor, accusing her of being a Kapo on a Harvard Law website.   I will recommend you notice the part that the now "justice" then Dean of Harvard Law, Elena Kagan, played in it and Finkelstein's response to her freedom of speechy defense allowing one of their most public faculty members lie and libel in association with her law school - it's quite an eye opener about her character as an institutional apparatchik  too.   She's hardly the only big name at Harvard Law that covered up for him over the years, including some of the biggest and most august of names there. 

I suspect that the reason Dershowitz would want Republicans to keep control of the Congress is so that the Epstein material will  never be made pubic while that old degenerate is alive to suffer the consequences of appearing in them.   I think Dershowitz may suspect  or maybe even knows he's all over it  - which would explain a lot about his political activities since the time Epstein was first being exposed to legal jeopardy.     I have every confidence that Epstein and Maxwell collected material to blackmail - the only credible reason so many of his rooms were wired for video recording - which I would bet you anything they trafficked in,  selling the material to governments, I suspect Russia and Israel would have gotten some if not all of it, which would also explain a lot about Trump.  I would suspect that as one of his lawyers Dershowitz would have known something about what might be contained in that material and what better way to make sure it never sees the light of day than to have Trump as president and certainly one of the most inside of the Epstein pedo-rapists, grantee it will never be released.   I mean, I always knew Dershowitz was a total sleaze, certainly when I first heard him defending the use of torture,  but so many are always asking "what happened to Dersthowitz."  I generally say nothing "happened to him" he's always been a slime-ball but now I think we may reasonably suspect there's more to this than that. 

I generally hate Harvard Law School, one of the birth places of the "unitary executive" fascist theory of the Constitution and training ground for so many fascists and criminals.   It is a moral cesspool, the kind that has produced so many of the most appalling liar-lawyers and, when they didn't produce them themselves, hiring some of them.   What I don't get is why the ones who are better than that don't call out their school for its vileness.   But they do produce lawyers. 

*  I have to ask again why, since the same material was in the hands of the DoJ when Merrick Garland was Attorney General why he and his team kept it under wraps, especially as they don't seem to have done much to prosecute anyone who may have been exposed as criminals by it.    I have to wonder if his connection to Harvard and the number of those from that school who were involved with Epstein didn't have something to do with that, as well.   Though it could have just been Garland  once more preferring his lawerly scruples to democracy and the truth.   I hate"institutionalists" (more honestly called "careerists") which just about all lawyers are.  You can count on them not valuing the truth especially when they can profit from lies. 

If you want to read more about the Dershowitz slander of Maryla Husyt Finkelstein, Norman  Finkelstein has posted a large but not very clearly formatted or edited number of documents about it.   Note that there were lots of People who showed how sleazily and blatantly Dershowitz distorted things to tell his big lie about her and how Dershowitz's lie was picked up by others who wanted to discredit her son.   What a sleaze that guy is. 

in the character of militia, you may be dragged from your families and homes to any part of the continent, and for any length of time

IF YOU WANT ANOTHER example of the foresight of the antifederalists,  here is another passage from Paul Finkelmann's review of The Complete Antifederalist that should sound familiar to anyone following the news since January 21st. 

"Centinel" feared not only a standing army but the abuse of local militias by the national government.  He also understood, far better than the Federalists, that the Constitution would allow a tyranny of the majority to persecute Quakers and other conscientious objectors. "Centinel" believed the Constitution would "subject" American citizens

"to the most arbitrary military discipline, [and] even death may be inflicted on the disobedient; in the character of militia, you may be dragged from your families and homes to any part of the continent, and for any length of time. . . and as militia, you may be made then unwilling instruments of oppression, under the direction of government; there is no exemption upon account of conscientious scruples of bearing arms .... "

Of course, all through our history such has been the case for Black People, certainly for Native Americans but also many other groups for whom which the Constitution never was intended to work by the framers of it.   Now, under Republican-fascism and the Roberts Court many white citizens of the United States are feeling themselves to be under that threat WITHOUT ANYONE MUCH STOPPING THEM, LEAST OF ALL THE SUPREME COURT.   And that's WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS that the First Congress was forced to pass due to the promises made by James Madison to get Virginia to approve of the thing.   But that will get me started on the many defects in the Bill of Rights, not least of which is the completely defective and now Supreme Court worsened Second Amendment which makes anyone with the means of assembling an arsenal able to do what even the huge lynch mobs of the past couldn't do, kill large numbers of People which happens with such frequency that mass gun murder has become routine in the country under the Bill of Rights.  

Anyone who believes or says that all we need to do is to go back to the regular order of things in the past is an idiot of the kind who does the same thing over and over again and expects there to be a different result.  Those trained as lawyers regularly either are or pretend to be such idiots, my greatest nightmares over Democrats getting the kind of chance Obama and Biden got to right things will listen to the lawyers and, like they did, blow that chance. 

The Constitution isn't the solution, it is the problem,  if not in how  it was written then it certainly is now in how the Supreme Court rewrites it to suit itself according to which elite lawyers sits on it at any time.   And as the many mistakes of the Warren Court prove, mistakes that were then weaponized by the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts to opposite ends,  you can't depend on the maybe one brief period when "liberals" dominated it making everything better.   It has to be cut down to the size of a reasonably less dangerous court in a modern democracy.    It has to be correctable by the Congress and, through them the only basis of any legitimate government, the true, adequately informed and equally accessed voting of The People.