Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz is fighting to protect Americans’ rights on his new Filmon TV political channel, ‘The Dershow with Alan Dershowitz.’ The channel, which is a video version of the attorney’s podcast, ‘The Dershow,’ discusses law, politics, the constitution and overall important contemporary societal issues.
The latest topic that’s being discussed by Dershowitz, who’s known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, is the fight over two of the most major cases awaiting Supreme Court decisions – the power of the states to regulate guns and abortions. He has pointed out that “many of those who support the power of the state in one situation oppose it in the other because the politics point in opposite directions.” The lawyer, who has declared on his Twitter account that America should ban assault rifles, not abortion, has also noted that “There are constitutional differences between the cases, but there also are similarities. Both should be considered in a nonpartisan manner.”
Dershowitz, who also served as a Harvard Law School professor for almost 50 years, went on to explain that the Second Amendment guarantees that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” But it guarantees that right in the context of “a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state.”
The political commentator also pointed out that unlike guns, abortion isn’t specifically mentioned in the Constitution. But the Fourth Amendment does guarantee “the right of the people to be secure in their persons.” He stated that “This surely has some implication for the right of women to decide whether or not to bear a child. The state may well have the power to regulate abortion to some degree but, as with guns, the issue before the Supreme Court is how much power does the state have?”
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