Expect ‘Summer of Violence,’ Abuses of Law, Power, Says Alan Dershowitz

Famed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz made a disturbing prediction during an appearance on Newsmax TV Saturday: Don’t expect this summer to be peaceful.

In the midst of another high-pressure election year, potentially controversial Supreme Court decisions, a cratering economy, and rampant inflation, Dershowitz said those are among the ingredients to create a highly volatile domestic scenario.

“I’m afraid we will have a summer of violence if the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade, and we will see the Justice Department and this administration selectively enforcing the law,” Dershowitz told “Saturday Agenda.”

“You won’t find congressional committees controlled [by] Democrats evaluating whether there was incitement, whether by Black Lives Matter — or women’s groups,” he added.

The former law professor railed against the hands-off approach in failing to hold accountable those who committed violence using race as their justification in Democrat-run cities throughout the summer and fall of 2020, even as the Jan. 6 defendants are heavily prosecuted, treated much worse, and held in confinement for more than a year without bail and without getting a court date.

“We have to have one law for all,” Dershowitz told host Tom Basile. “The rules have to be identical. It doesn’t matter if you’re protesting something that deserves to be protested — like the ending of Roe v. Wade — or something that doesn’t deserve protested.

“That’s not what the First Amendment is about. The First Amendment does not choose between causes, and it has — as [former] Chief Justice [William] Rehnquist said — there’s no such thing as a false opinion under the First Amendment. So the rules have to be identical; and unfortunately, they’re not identical. They’re selectively imposed and enforced,” he added.

Newsmax adds:

The abuse of power will not be limited to the Justice Department’s selective enforcement of the law against conservatives either, Dershowitz lamented, as Biden is also going to abuse the executive authority, like using the Defense Production Act to speed up green energy initiates amid massive inflation, energy shortages, and rising gas prices.

“It’s being abused,” Dershowitz said. “It has been abused by both parties. You know, both parties when they run for office say they want to restrict executive power. Once they get to office — it started with Thomas Jefferson, who, you know, bought the Louisiana Purchase after promising he would do nothing by himself without Congress — and now every president says, Oh, there’s a law somewhere, this production act, that production act; it allows me to do this, it allows me to do that. We don’t need legislation. We don’t need the judiciary. I’m the president, I can do anything I want.”

“And the courts generally slapped them down when they do that. As they slapped down President Trump, as they slapped down President Biden,” he continued. “And I hope they will continue to slap down presidents who misuse these administrative acts that are designed for one purpose and try to use them for a different purpose.”

The constitutional law professor said the right way to do things is for the president to go to Congress and work with lawmakers in both parties to craft legislation, which is what Trump did when it came to renegotiating NAFTA and passing major tax reductions and reforms.

“Go to the legislature,” he said. “Biden, you have control of both the Senate and the House: Get them to pass laws. Don’t assume the power yourself. That’s not what Constitution mandates.”

He also said that Congress is abusing its power, too, with the Jan. 6 committee targeting only conservatives.

And he said the Supreme Court is overreaching if it overturns Roe v. Wade “because that issue is not before them.”

“The only issue is whether the Mississippi statute, which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, is constitutional.

“Even if that’s constitutional, it doesn’t say anything about the first 15 weeks, so the Supreme Court would be reaching out and deciding a case not before it,” he said.

“Each branch of the government today is guilty of overreaching.”