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https://www.huffpost.com/Creepy Dershowitz Trends And You Really Dont Want To Know Why
Alan Dershowitz probably shouldve kept this to himself.
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I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex? 1/ https://t.co/48Thb8Uaym
Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019
I challenge my readers to distinguish the cases, as a matter of constitutional law. I did not suggest that it is moral to have sex with a 16 year old, but rather that the issue presents a constitutional conundrum worthy of discussion. 2/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alan-dershowitz-age-of-consent_n_5d3fd799e4b0db8affad7ded
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Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019
I also pointed out that, statutory rape laws are applied quite selectively and often against young teenagers. Thats why I also say there are Romeo and Juliet exceptions. Lets debate not name call. End/
Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019
The tweets caused Dershowitzs name to trend as well as a variation on it: #CreepyDershowitz:
80 year old Alan Dershowitz wants us to know that having sex with 16 year olds should be very legal and cool.
Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 30, 2019
Why is @AlanDersh trying to lower the age of consent in this op-ed? 15? Really? https://t.co/K8LyEho50X
Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) July 29, 2019
The right for a minor to obtain abortion w/o parental or state involvement protects her from undue burden abuse and/or delay/being forced to give birth. This is consistent with idea that the pregnancy resulting from sex to which she could not consent should not be forced on her
Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) July 30, 2019
Please do not get #CreepyDershowitz to trend.
Do not use this hashtag.
Thank you.
andy lassner (@andylassner) July 30, 2019
I will definitely not use the #CreepyDershowitz hashtag. Thanks for the warning about the #CreepyDershowitz hashtags.
The Guy (@theguydf) July 30, 2019
I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a person dies, arent they technically no longer a person?
On an unrelated note, and I am certainly not guilty of cannibalism, which is clearly defined as eating people. 1/
Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) July 29, 2019
Twitter: Morning, everyone! Hows it g
Alan Dershowitz: (smashing through the wall at top speed to leave an Alan Dershowitz-shaped hole in the brick) THE CONSTITUTION SAYS ITS OKAY TO HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN
Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) July 30, 2019
If I Did It
by Alan Dershowitz https://t.co/ENb2HEPEYo
Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 29, 2019
come for dershowitz doubling down on his opinion that the age of consent should be lowered to 15, stay for the line when he explains this may be double true for minors particularly [of] some ethnic groups pic.twitter.com/9XUthLWg4Z
LVL 45 CHAOS POTUS (@thetomzone) July 30, 2019
Alan Dershowitz is doin legal gymnastics to legalize sex with 15 year old girls. Now why would a totally innocent feller need to do such a thing?https://t.co/ocmBnqdgX5
Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 30, 2019
Have you lost your damn mind?
Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 29, 2019
Narrator: Yes, yes Dersh has lost his mind and not even @waze can help him locate it.
Emily Brandwin (@CIAspygirl) July 30, 2019
Thats a Constitutional argument?
I mustve missed a page of the Constitution.
Melissa Jo Peltier (@MelissaJPeltier) July 29, 2019
The fuck is the matter with you, #CreepyDershowitz?
andy lassner (@andylassner) July 30, 2019
Im REALLY interested as to why you care so much about whether or not 16 year olds can consent.
Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) July 30, 2019
Just say, Im a pervert. Its much shorter.
John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 30, 2019
The old why am I a pedophile if my 16 yr old victim gets to have an abortion argument.
Alt Fed Employee (@Alt_FedEmployee) July 30, 2019
Youre gross. Please stop talking. #CreepyDershowitz https://t.co/LbUPcIMvCl
Shara Godwinson (@sharagodwinson) July 30, 2019
Marthas Vineyard just hid its daughters
shauna (@goldengateblond) July 30, 2019
Free legal advice: Log off
Connor Wroe Southard (@ConnorSouthard) July 29, 2019
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)marble falls
(57,208 posts)liberal legal mind, just before he took on defending Klaus von Bulow.
hlthe2b
(102,360 posts)marble falls
(57,208 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)marble falls
(57,208 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)I keep thinking about his wife, what must she be thinking? Him defending this, if he is accused of being with underrage girls, at least there was plausible deniability. Unless there is solid proof ie, video/audio.
I don't understand.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)such a big, getable target.
Very, very, grateful.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Internet randos shame some creep! News at 11!
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Threads here everyday about how twitter is clapping back at rump or one of his spawn. Twitter makes no damn difference to anything anywhere.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)describes a DUer or two I know.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I'd also engage in self-righteous indignation if anyone pointed it out to me and pretend that's not what I'm doing.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,415 posts)Do you prefer one-way news, spoon-fed to you?
I'm not on twitter, but appreciate being able to listen in on significant conversations. DU members are very good at pointing toward such significant conversations.
My perspective too, Hermit.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)scumbags pedophiles and rapists like him.
Go fuck yourself you criminal
marble falls
(57,208 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)I find this man absolutely disgusting.. Especially that ugly/phony fucking smile he bounces around with...
malaise
(269,157 posts)being invited to summer parties I realized that he had a serious sense of self importance.
He really is an entitled creep. People like him disgust me. They think they are all above the law and must never be ostracized for their behavior.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Yet another reputation soiled and flushed down the sewer. Serves you right.
Hekate
(90,793 posts)...have built prominent careers, all the while committing crimes that flew under the radar of publicity and the law. And then, they come into the orbit of Trump's presidency and it all goes up in stinking flames.
It is defnitely one of Trump's superpowers.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Just say, Im a pervert. Its much shorter.
John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 30, 2019
not fooled
(5,801 posts)dershowitz for Romeo.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)paleotn
(17,960 posts)He's not stupid. He knows the rock solid legal reasoning behind the right to abortion for someone under the age of consent. He's just worried. Very worried his sins will find him out.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Asking for a friend.
judesedit
(4,443 posts)Tell me that, please.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)....help after a rape, then she's old enough to be raped.
That is what he's saying.
Real window into the mind of a predatory sociopath.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)He's talking from a perp's perspective. Because he is a perp.
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)We are no longer subjected to this asshole giving Giving cover to Trump on every channel that would give him 5 minutes.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)moonseller66
(430 posts)Trump called. Wants to have sex with your 16 year old daughter. Ok with you?
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)At 16, she could be his great-great granddaughter.
brush
(53,868 posts)associated with Epstein and sex with minors should steer far and clear of advocating lowering the age of consent, but Dershowitz is arguing for it.
There's some faulty logic going on there, or maybe not in his mind if he's afraid something is about to surface about him at Epstein's parties.
marble falls
(57,208 posts)to argue himself out of any pinch. He's gone just one ego-trip too far.