Alan Dershowitz Shares What He Wishes Trump’s Lawyers Had Done Differently

Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Wednesday on Newsmax that President Donald Trump’s legal team missed a crucial opportunity before the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court might move to curb Trump’s use of emergency powers to impose tariffs after signaling skepticism toward his legal team’s defense during oral arguments Wednesday. Appearing on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Dershowitz said Trump’s lawyers failed to center their argument on constitutional authority and foreign policy powers.

“I wish his lawyers would have consulted more widely with people outside who could have given them advice about how to argue to this Supreme Court,” Dershowitz said. “And they may have lost some of the middle justices, Roberts and Gorsuch, and others. And so if you have to make a prediction, Oliver Wendell Holmes once said the job of a lawyer is to predict what the courts will do.”

Dershowitz added that Trump could still return to court on constitutional grounds but warned it would take time.

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