{"id":1596227,"date":"2022-08-09T08:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596227"},"modified":"2022-08-09T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:50:13","slug":"biden-administration-raid-on-trump-improper-dershowitz-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-raid-on-trump-improper-dershowitz-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Raid on Trump \u2018Improper,\u2019 Dershowitz Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-raid-on-trump-improper-dershowitz-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Harvard Law School professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alan-dershowitz\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a> and other legal scholars are questioning the Biden administration raid on former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe raid is supposed to be a last resort, but this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies. It has arrested people, denied them bail, put them in handcuffs\u2014used all kinds of techniques that are not usually applied to American citizens. I just hope this raid has the justification. If it doesn\u2019t have the justification, the materials seized in it will be suppressed,\u201d Dershowitz, who assisted Trump\u2019s legal team during the first impeachment effort, said on Newsmax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is improper, and this is misconduct. We have to find out what the facts are. But we have to make sure the shoe fits on the other foot\u2014that we want to make sure what is being done here is something that Democrats would not oppose if it were being done to Democratic operatives, as well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a breathtaking moment to have a raid like this on a former president and potentially the future opponent of the current president,\u201d Jonathan Turley, a criminal defense attorney and a law professor at George Washington University, said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Turley wondered why Attorney General Merrick Garland, a Biden appointee, did not appoint a special counsel,\u00a0noting that then-Attorney General Elliot Richardson appointed a special prosecutor to investigate then-President Richard Nixon in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, here you have the past opponent of the current president and the expected future opponent,\u201d Turley said. \u201cI can\u2019t imagine how Attorney General Garland would look at that situation and not see an absolute necessity for a special counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little about the justification for the raid is known. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fbi\">FBI<\/a> declined to comment and its parent agency, the Department of Justice, which Garland heads,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz and other legal scholars are questioning the Biden administration raid on former President Donald Trump. \u201cThe raid is supposed to be a last resort, but this administration has used the weaponization of the justice system against its political enemies. It has arrested people, denied them bail, put them in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}