Five students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government have begun circulating a petition, “Revoke Their Degrees” which seeks to rescind the degrees of Kayleigh McEnany, Ted Cruz and Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, whom they describe as “violent actors.” Fox Business obtained a copy of a letter to Harvard which stated that “societies cannot recover from civil strife without a process for holding violent actors accountable.”
The petition cites the revocation of the degree of Russian spy Andrey Bezrukov in 2010. Bezrukov is not a good example because he attended the school under an alias and pleaded guilty to spying and so far McEnany, Cruz and Crenshaw haven’t been charged with anything.
Nevertheless, along comes Alan Dershowitz muddying the waters. He presents the issue as a free speech one, when the issues are sedition and insurrection against the United States. Dershowitz has no shame but then you knew that.
Dershowitz has been touted as being Trump’s lawyer for his second impeachment trial along with Rudy Giuliani. Rudy may not have a license to practice law by then. And if Rudy does in fact end up defending Trump, Karl Rove suggests, rather hilariously I thought, that Trump will get convicted for sure.
“Normally we’d say not much chance [of conviction],” Rove explained to Fox News host Chris Wallace. “But [Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s] statement is a sign that every Republican senator needs to take this seriously.”
“And I think it’s all going to boil down to what’s the president’s defense?” he continued. “Rudy Giuliani charted a very bad course for the president in the morning papers when he suggested that the argument was going to be, well, there couldn’t have been incitement because all the charges of widespread voter fraud are true.”
Rove insisted that the charges of voter fraud “have been rejected by over 50 courts with judges appointed by President Trump, President Obama, President Bush, President Clinton and I think even one Reagan justice.”
“So if it’s the Rudy Giuliani defense, there’s a strong likelihood that more than 17 Republicans will [vote for conviction],” Rove said, “because essentially that argument is, this was justified, the attack on the Capitol and the attempt to end the congressional hearing on certifying the election was justified because all these charges are true. And frankly, they aren’t.”
The life of an orange tribe lawyer is not one that I would want to have. Not for any amount of money. But as long as Dershowitz keeps his underwear on, maybe we’ll be okay.
Wonder if mr putrid laid with underage girls on epsteins rape island. Inquiring minds wanna know.
These are absolutely super-horrible folks; that said, an honorary degree revocation is one thing, but as far as anybody knows, these stinkers did the work and met Harvard’s requirements for degrees, and that’s a different animal when it comes to revocation. Pretty sure there’s not a way to do it, and if there were, I shudder to think of the can of worms that would open. Just imagine rwnj’s going after that as an option.
I don’t think there’s much chance of it happening. If you hit the Fox Business link, you’ll see that legal scholars are saying it’s not a good case.
Tightie whitie man likes to defend liars.
These are absolutely super-horrible folks; that said, an honorary degree revocation is one thing, but as far as anybody knows, these stinkers did the work and met Harvard’s requirements for degrees, and that’s a different animal when it comes to revocation if you’re not a Russian spy with an alias.
Hard to see how it could be done absent a criminal conviction, proof of academic dishonesty, etc, and if there were a way to do it without those things, I shudder to think of the can of worms that could open. (Imagine if everyone who hated someone decided to challenge that person’s degree…)
These people are reprehensible, but that seems like a separate question from whether they earned their degrees. Gotta love the students’ initiative, though.
I think the idea of revoking her degree is just for show. There really aren’t grounds. A lot of Ivy League grads turn into lying, entitled idiots. Although I thin Yale can revoke Josh Hawley’s on the ground that he MUST have cheated to pass Constitution 101.
How sad our country has become.
That is an understatement.
Pro Bono for Dershowitz representation? He’s overcharging, don’t you think?
They could revoke the law degrees, since not of them seem to have a clue about laws or the Constitution, judging by their lies.
Yea it’s “lies” just like the last two primary elections rigged against Bernie Sanders by his own party of Democrats which were also rife with *PROVEN* voter fraud and purging of the rolls. I still remember Liz Warren and the DNC President Donna Brazille saying it was rigged on TV. Meanwhile another women was just arrested for thousands of fraud ballots in Texas two days ago. But keep on living in your fantasy world dousche bag!
U need2 stop smoking crack.
Texas? That’s Paxton and after his court stunt he has no credibility. Also no one is claiming that woman is responsible for thousands of fraudulent ballots. In Texas, a household member, relative as defined by the law, or person lawfully assisting a voter eligible for assistance due to disability or inability to read the ballot may return their mail ballot. The woman may be guilty of some of the charges, but if so, the number of fraudulent ballots will not even come close to being the “massive fraud” necessary to tip an election. This sort of small fraud occurs in every election, and if Trump had won, his supporters wouldn’t even care about it. There is also the problem that the main evidence against her is a Project Veritas video. Project Veritas videos as heavily edited as they are, will likely not be admissible in court.
Does Dershowitz want to lose his law license too?
The ” 50 courts” which rejected the evidence of voter fraud did not even look at it. They rejected it out of hand. . .even the so called Supreme Court! How is that justice?? No matter how much you leftists claim Biden was elected fair and square, conservatives will believe what we see first hand with our own eyes! This election was rigged and stolen. We are not giving up or going away.
That is not true. Several of the judges wrote scathing opinions about the abysmal ow quality of the evidence they saw. You are pretending that the handful of suits dismissed for lack of standing represent all 63 lawsuits. You would be better informed you avoided right wing propaganda.
PS You saw nothing with your own eyes. You allowed right-wing propaganda to tell you what to think.
I would imagine that having incited insurrection or otherwise violating their oaths of office also should hold for violating their oaths as officers of the court, like Powell and whazzisname too, who tried to get the Georgia secState and others hanged. They all should be disbarred and their degrees revoked and maybe Dershowitz too for his precipituos act of supporting those who would commit sedition