Attorney Alan Dershowitz criticized Attorney General Merrick Garland for releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Tuesday, saying the “one-sided” document violated “core principles” of the United States. said.
Garland released Smith’s report early Tuesday morning, where Smith outlined his findings into President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election. Dershowitz called the release of the report an “act of law” and compared it to then-FBI Director James Comey’s 2016 press conference regarding the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s home server. Dershowitz said Democrats who criticized Comey’s comments at the time praised Smith and Garland. (Related: Dershowitz predicts Supreme Court’s ‘liberals’ will ‘go along’ for halting cases against Trump)
“These same Democrats praised Jack Smith and said what he did was great and it was great that Merrick Garland released the information and released the screed and released the one-sided screed. Do you know what it’s called? It’s the hypocrisy of double standards,” Dershowitz said on Tuesday’s episode of “The Dershowitz.” “It just shows that the publication of this report, the publication of this report, is legal. It’s the law. It’s not the law.”
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“It’s not an adversarial judicial system where both sides present their case and the burden of proof is on the prosecution. All the defense has to do is raise a reasonable doubt. This is what it is. So it has no place in our legal system and no place in the court of public opinion,” Dershowitz said.
Mr. Smith secured a replacement indictment against Mr. Trump. This came nearly two months after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump’s immunity claim in a case stemming from an earlier indictment secured by Smith. The charges were in response to President Trump’s efforts to contest the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“Look, I’m a stronger advocate of transparency than anyone else. I think government documents should be publicly available,” Dershowitz said. “The same rules that apply to regular prosecutors should apply to special prosecutors, and the grand jury rules are no, we don’t. We don’t release grand jury reports. .”
“Why are the provisions for special prosecutors and general prosecutors different? I don’t know. The idea that the special prosecutor somehow knows what the truth is, rather than being exposed to an adversarial process. violates our core principles,” Dershowitz added.
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