Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Tuesday secured a significant procedural victory in federal court against CNN as part of his ongoing defamation lawsuit against the network.
CNN’s attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the $300 million lawsuit for failure to state a claim last November. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida was not convinced, and the parties will now move on to the discovery phase of proceedings.
“Looking forward to deposing the commentators and heads of CNN and of the truth coming out,” Dershowitz told Law&Crime in an email.
The famed celebrity attorney sued the liberal media outlet last September after CNN aired an edited clip of his defense argument in favor of then-president Donald Trump during the latter’s 2020 Senate impeachment trial over the Ukraine phone call affair.
Here is the well-reasoned order by Judge Singhal.
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Will this open the flood gates for more litigation? I see edited clips all over every one of the major networks. 2 clips edited by the media that seem to be forgotten was the 911 call from George Zimmerman. NBC edited out the questions the dispatcher asked Zimmerman. It was the dispatcher who asked about race. Yet the call was edited to sound like Zimmerman was only concerned Martin was black. Yet he never mentioned Martin's race until he was asked. The other major edit was that nut case that ran against Harry Reid for US Senate in 2014 (her name escapes me). She commented about 2nd amendment remedies and then said we need to take Harry Reid out. The edit by news channels edited the last part. She said we need to take Harry Reid out of the Senate. Yet the edit made it sound like she wanted him snuffed out since she spoke about the 2nd amendment sentences before.
Long story short, we see this all over the media on every slanted network right or left.
The claims are based on comments made by CNN talking heads after the edited clip was shown where they asserted that Dershowitz said that Presidents can do anything they want, even criminal acts, and get away with it as long as they acted to further their re-election. Begala said "the Dershowitz Doctrine would make Presidents immune from every criminal act."
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