Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, told Newsmax on Tuesday that 2024 was “one of the most dangerous years for the rule of law” in his 60 years as a lawyer.
In May, a Manhattan jury found President-elect Donald Trump guilty of 34 counts for falsifying business records by referring to reimbursments totaling $130,000 made to former attorney Michael Cohen as a “legal expense.” Cohen allegedly used the $130,000 to pay porn star Stormy Daniels during the final weeks of the 2016 election to conceal an affair she had with Trump, who has denied ever having an affair with Daniels.
Dershowitz told “American Agenda” the case will "go down in history as the greatest abuses of prosecutorial discretion, the worst misuse of the criminal justice system, the worst creation of lawfare in the history of this country."
Dershowitz, the author of “Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law,” said he is concerned that a legal precedence has now been set for politicians to use the courts to got after their enemies, adding, “I don’t think it. I know it for sure.”
“And inevitably, it will spread,” he added. “It will spread to states. It will spread to other parties and other people. It’s a total disaster. And the people who are responsible for it, [Democrat Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg, should be held accountable, held accountable in the court of public opinion, held accountable by the bar**. It is a legal catastrophe unmatched in American history.”**