‘You have to spend so much of your life defending sons of b****es’
By Joe Kovacs
President Donald J. Trump holds a Bible after walking from the White House Monday evening, June 1, 2020, to St. John’s Episcopal Church, known as the church of Presidents, that was damaged by fire during demonstrations in nearby LaFayette Square Sunday evening. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
One of the top legal minds in America is blasting the fierce persecution of former President Donald Trump as a slap against biblical justice.
“‘Justice, justice you shall pursue,’ the Bible commands (Deuteronomy 16:20); and that, in doing justice, one must not ‘recognize faces,'” writes Democrat Alan Dershowitz, the famed professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
“Commentators ask why the good book repeats the word justice, since every word is thought to have significance. The most relevant is that there are two kinds of justice: substantive and procedural.
The former relates to making the punishment fit the crime; the latter requires that correct procedures be employed to determine whether a crime has been committed.
“The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once observed that the history of liberty is largely a history of procedural fairness. Our constitution embodies that history by reading ‘the due process of law.'”