Eddie Scarry of the Washington Examiner offers an amusing report involving one of the most well-known figures in the legal community.
Alan Dershowitz recently tried to publish an opinion piece in The New York Times arguing that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., likely did not break the law by meeting last year with a Russian lawyer who said she had compromising information on Hillary Clinton.
But Dershowitz told the Washington Examiner over the phone on Monday that the Times had “no response” to his submission.
The widely known legal commentator and cable news fixture said he remains a “liberal Hillary Clinton supporter,” but said after reading an op-ed in the Times published last week that argued Trump Jr. could be charged “under other statutes” for “treasonous conduct,” he reached out to the paper to present an opposing view.
“I said that I thought the readers of the New York Times were entitled to hear or read the other side of the issue whether there were crimes committed,” said Dershowitz, a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School. “And I really do think The New York Times does not want its readers to hear an alternative point of view on the issue of whether or not Trump administration is committing crimes.”
Dershowitz said he attempted to reach the opinion page editor and deputy editor without success. He said he wants to “get out in the liberal media” but that his opinion is “not the narrative they’re pushing.”
