Trump Raid Shows ‘Pendulum Is Swinging Against the Constitution’: Alan Dershowitz

The raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, may become a key moment in history—with implications felt by all Americans—depending on where the pendulum next swings, according to civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz.

“Right now, the pendulum is swinging against the Constitution, against free speech,” Dershowitz told The Epoch Times. “If I had to put a symbol on the Justice Department, it would be, ‘Due process for me but not for thee. Free speech for me but not for thee. Equal protection for me, but not for thee.’ That’s the direction in which the pendulum seems to be swinging today.”

There seems to be a double standard at work, Dershowitz said.

He pointed to the treatment of Sandy Berger, a national security advisor to President Bill Clinton, who was fined and sentenced to two years of probation in 2005 for unauthorized removal of classified material from the National Archives, and Hillary Clinton, who kept classified intelligence community emails on an unsecured private email server in her home. She was not prosecuted.

“Why are different standards being applied?” Dershowitz said. “Why did they arrest and shackle people like Peter Navarro and Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, instead of just calling their lawyers and saying, ‘Have him show up for an arraignment in a day or two.’ That’s the way it’s usually done. What we’re seeing is probable cause that a double standard has been applied to Trump and to Trump loyalists.”

Protecting the Right to Vote

Although Dershowitz represented Trump during his 2020 Senate impeachment trial, he says he is not a Trump loyalist and didn’t vote for him. But he does not want to see Trump disqualified from running, because voters have a right to vote for the candidate they want.

“I don’t want to see the American system

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