Dershowitz is a self-important tool who will do anything to stay relevant. Russia’s interests don’t matter for purposes of this discussion.

encouraging foreign intervention in a US election to help Trump get re-elected is in the national interest because Trump thinks it's in the national interest. L'etat c'est moi and all that.

He says all the investigations have cut into his golf time, uh, executive time, uh, rally time...

DD

DD

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/14/732571895/fear-of-foreign-interference-in-u-s-elections-dates-from-nations-founding

The founders of American democracy could not have anticipated the technology of the 21st century or many of the other changes that have redefined the republic they created. But they clearly foresaw one challenge that faces the inheritors of their handiwork – the threat of foreign interference in our elections.

The fear of foreign interference was a driving issue in the conversations of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Several features of the Constitution that the framers produced that summer had their origins in this fear, as former Federal Election Commission Chairman Trevor Potter noted in a 2017 speech.

Potter, now president of the Campaign Legal Center, said, "The founders took steps to guard against such [interference] by including in our Constitution guardrails like the requirement that the president be a 'natural born citizen.'

Our campaign modeling suggested I could win some votes by doing that, so it was in the national interest! I only did it to improve my chances of re-election! "

And therefore deserved at the worst censure and six months probation..........

It's not ok. At all.