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Alan Dershowitz Announces He Has Left The Democrat Party

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OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.


The Democrat Party has alienated many people who used to consider themselves members.

Among them have been former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Democrat Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and now they can add Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz to the list.

The famed attorney and scholar has been an advocate for former President Donald Trump but still considered himself a Democrat and continued to vote for Democrat candidates until now.

He announced on Friday that he had officially left the Democrat Party in part because of the rampant antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment he said he witnessed at the Democrat National Convention.

“It was the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention I’ve experienced,” he said to radio host Zev Brenner on “Talkline with Zev Brenner.” “I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention. Absolutely disgusted.”

“They had more anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist people who were speaking, starting with [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] – a miserable, anti-Zionist bigot,” the attorney said. “Then, of course, they had [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren, who is one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate. Then they had Bernie Sanders, one of the most anti-Jewish people in the Senate.”

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“[B]y giving them platforms, what it says is that when AOC does call Israel a genocidal country and rails against it, she now has the imprimatur of the Democratic Party,” he explained.

“I was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention,” he said. “Absolutely disgusted.”

“I am no longer a Democrat,” he said. “I am an Independent. I will decide who to vote for at the last minute based on the totality of the circumstances. I want to see how they deal with Iran, I want to see how they deal with Iran’s attacks on the United States, I want to encourage the current administration to support Israel. So I’m not revealing my vote until maybe November 1.

“I need to hear all the information, all the evidence, but I am no longer a member of the Democratic Party,” he said.

“I cannot be associated with the party that features as its speakers, AOC, [Al] Sharpton, Liz Warren and Bernie Sanders,” he said. “That’s not my party.”

In June Dershowitz was among the legal experts who detailed a path for former President Trump to appeal the hush money verdict against him in New York.

Alan Dershowitz said that he believes the former president can fast track the appeal to the Supreme Court.

The retired law professor advised President Trump’s legal team to hasten their appeal so that the New York Court of Appeals, the highest level of the New York state court system and the court that hears appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, can hear it.

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However, he noted that appeals to this court are not guaranteed; they typically necessitate approval either from the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court or directly from the New York Court of Appeals itself.

“He should make an appeal to the New York Court of Appeals asking them to bypass the Appellate Division because he’s not going to get justice in the Appellate Division,” Dershowitz said, going on to say that those judges are elected are likely more concerned about electorate blowback if they find in favor of Trump.

“The Appellate Division or Manhattan judges that are elected and they don’t want to have to face their families and say you were the judge who allowed Trump to become the next President of the United States. They don’t want to be Dershowitz’ed,” he said, referring to blowback he received after defending the then-president in his first impeachment trial in the Senate.

“They don’t want to be treated in New York, the way I have been treated in Martha’s Vineyard and Harvard and New York because I defended Donald Trump, so they should skip the Appellate Division,” he continued.

Trump’s attorneys should directly petition the highest appeals court in New York state and request an expedited process to bring their case before the Supreme Court, Dershowitz said.