'I don't see any smoking guns': Alan Dershowitz slams GOP's 'tit-for-tat' impeachment

Law professor Alan Dershowitz blasted House Republicans for pursuing the impeachment of President Joe Biden without a "smoking gun."

During a Thursday interview on Newsmax, Dershowitz was asked if the depositions of Biden's brother and son would produce significant evidence.

"Look, it's proper to investigate anything relating to a sitting president," Dershowitz told the Newsmax host. "I don't see any smoking guns here yet. And certainly we're far, far, far away from finding an impeachable offense by the president."

"To find an impeachable offense, you have to find treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors committed while he was serving as president, most of these allegations go back to when he was a vice president," he continued. "Some go back to when he was a senator. So I think this is an example of tit-for-tat weaponization of the criminal justice system."

The legal scholar accused Republicans of "getting even with the Democrats because the Democrats impeached Trump and Democrats are going after him in New York, criminally and civilly."

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"And the losers are the American people because our system of justice ceases to be neutral and objective and becomes a tool to be used by either party to their own political advantage," he insisted. "It's just not good for America when either side does it."

While representing Trump in his first impeachment, Dershowitz suggested it should be impossible to impeach a president for anything done to boost reelection efforts.

"If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment," Dershowitz said during a Senate hearing in 2020.

Presidential historian Robert Dallek criticized Dershowitz at the time.

"Frankly I've never seen that before, that a president's power extends to wherever his politics are," Dallek observed. "There is a pretty well defined idea of what a president can do and can't do and when he seems to overstep his bounds, he runs into great difficulty with the Congress or the judiciary."

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