On Thursday’s episode of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor emeritus and Newsmax legal analyst, said that if a Harvard Law School member spoke out against the conviction of former President Donald Trump, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, “I would be booed and denied the right to attend class, because they would be so happy about this verdict,” he said. “Young lawyers today don’t care about justice. They just want their side to win.”
After Dershowitz criticized the verdict and said Trump’s legal team handled the case poorly and didn’t do a good job of preparing the record for appeal, host Greta Van Susteren asked, “What would you like to say to the students at Harvard Law School? Or what is your message to the American people? What is your message from this trial?”
Dershowitz responded: “First of all, if I tried to tell this to Harvard Law students, I would be booed and my right to attend class would be taken away, because they would be celebrating this ruling, because today’s lawyers, today’s young lawyers, don’t care about justice. They just want their side to win. And this is all about winning on partisan lines, what has happened to the American criminal justice system.”[s] It’s more important than the rule of law.”
He then added: “I didn’t feel that way about Jeffrey Epstein or OJ Simpson or even Harvey Weinstein, but I did feel that way about Donald Trump.”
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