(CNN) Constitutional lawyer and Trump impeachment legal team member Alan Dershowitz said Monday that he is “much more correct right now” in his current views on what qualifies a president for impeachment than his near-opposite views during the Clinton impeachment.
Dershowitz, a recent addition to President Donald Trump’s team, said Sunday that the framers of the Constitution intended for impeachable conduct to mean “criminal-like conduct” and that both of Trump’s charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power do not meet the constitutional criteria for impeachment.
But in 1998, Dershowitz said that a president could be impeached even without being accused of a crime.
“It certainly doesn’t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don’t need a technical crime,” he said on “Larry King Live” at the time.
When asked by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on “Anderson Cooper 360” on Monday whether he was wrong back then, Dershowitz replied, “I was saying that I am much more correct right now having done all the research, because that’s the issue.”
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