Joy Behar: Vice-President Pence compared Nancy Pelosi ripping up the president’s speech [following the State of the Union] with ripping up the constitution.
Pete Buttigieg: You know what ripping up the constitution looks like? Sending your lawyer into the well of the Senate to say that anything you do, even at the expense of national security, anything you do to benefit your own campaign is by definition the right thing to do and legal. That’s ripping up the constitution.
Buttigieg’s reply is a response to a statement made by Alan Dershowitz, a member of Donald Trump's legal defense team in the president's impeachment trial, when he stood on the floor of the Senate and said, “If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” In other words, presidents who abuse their powers to win elections should be immune from punishment, so long as they believe their victory will benefit the public and doesn’t involve a criminal act.
“The Dershowitz argument, frankly, would unleash a monster,”
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer
(D-N.Y.) said at a press conference. “More aptly, it would unleash a monarch.”
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