Dershowitz: Brett Kavanaugh ‘Dead Wrong’ About Impeachment: ‘He Should Read the Constitution’

Newly-announced Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been a proponent of broad terms for impeaching a president, arguing that it is permissible for “dastardly” behavior.

Alan Dershowitz had something to say about that.

“He’s dead wrong,” the embattled Harvard lawyer told CNN’s John Berman in an interview Tuesday. “He should read the Constitution, and I think when he does read the constitution, and when he reads my book and I will send him a copy of it he will see I’m right and he’s wrong.”

Dershowitz, making a plug for his book, The Case Against Impeaching Donald Trump, contended Kavanaugh was using too vague of a term on which to base a presidential ouster, and that “dastardly” was open to interpretation.

“Dastardly is not a criteria for impeachment,” he told Berman. “If you allow dastardly to be a criteria for impeachment, you really create a lawless process. What does dastardly mean? Who defines dastardly?”

To impeach the president, Dershowitz argued there should be an investigation conducted by Congress first.

Dershowitz’s repeated defense of President Donald Trump as well as his condemnation of the Mueller probe resulted in his now infamous Martha’s Vineyard shunning, something at which Berman took a jab as the interview closed.

“Hope they let you back on Martha’s Vineyard,” he said.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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