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DERSHOWITZ: “President Trump didn’t incite people to come to the Capitol. He invited the people. Not incite, invite. He said, 'Come peacefully and patriotically protest.' But you wouldn’t know if you read 144 constitutional scholars issued a letter the other day threatening, threatening Donald Trump’s lawyers saying, 'If you dare, if you dare to even raise a First Amendment argument...' — I’ll read it to you. 'Any First Amendment defense raised by President Trump’s attorneys would be legally frivolous.' Now that is a magic world, 'Legally frivolous.' It means unethical, unprofessional, and you can be disciplined and disbarred. So here you have 144 scholars telling Trump's lawyers that the American people are not entitled to hear an argument based on the First Amendment. Well, I’m here to tell these lawyers, I taught legal ethics for 25 years in Harvard, I am a constitutional lawyer for 55 years, make that argument. If you don’t make it, it’s unethical because you have an obligation to your client and the American people to present this First Amendment argument. Ignore these 144 scholars. They’re all result-oriented. They want to see Trump impeached and they are willing to stretch, tug, destroy and limit the Constitution.”