Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, told Newsmax on Friday that President Donald Trump is likely to prevail in the long legal fight over his deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois — despite a U.S. district judge’s ruling temporarily blocking the move.
Dershowitz told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” that although U.S. District Judge April Perry “may be right on the merits,” her ruling Thursday raises a deeper constitutional issue: whether the judiciary can overrule the president on national security and federal law enforcement.
“The real question is, Who has the right to be wrong?” he said. “Is it the executive or is it the judiciary? Judges sit in ivory towers. They don’t see the street. They don’t have real access to what’s going on. They can hear evidence, of course, but I suspect in the end, the president’s power will be upheld.
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