Alan Dershowitz: Trump Can Serve a Third Term

Dershowitz's former student tears apart his book arguing Trump can serve a third term

(This article has been corrected to clarify that Washington Monthly Legal Affairs Editor Garrett Epps was not a student of attorney Alan Dershowitz. I apologize for the error. --Lynch)Former Jeffrey Epstein lawyer and President Donald Trump ally Alan Dershowitz has published a whole book arguing for Trump to have a third term. But Washington Monthly Legal Affairs Editor Garrett Epps is having none of it.Dershowitz made good arguments back in the…

Alan Dershowitz: Trump Can Serve a Third Term

Let me start by saying, in all seriousness, that my admiration for Alan Dershowitz was one reason I decided, mid-career, to chuck newspaper work and attend law school. He was a legend in my undergraduate years at Harvard in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when (as The Harvard Crimson later put it), he was known as “that angry young professor with the long hair and loud voice.” I was angry, and still had hair, and thus considered him a kindred sp…