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Famed Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz rips Trump’s immigration ban as ‘badly executed’ and inconsistent with American values

This April 11, 2011 file photo shows attorney Alan Dershowitz at a hotel in Kiev, Ukraine, where he was preparing to defend former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, who was accused in the murder of an investigative journalist more than 10 years ago. The papers of the prominent lawyer and author are now available to researchers at Dershowitz's alma mater, Brooklyn College. Dershowitz donated his papers to Brooklyn College rather than Harvard, where he is a professor. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov, File)

Famed Harvard Law professor and attorney Alan Dershowitz harshly criticized President Trump’s immigration ban in an interview with Newsmax on Monday.

“It was badly executed, overbroad, and just not consistent with the best values of what America should be like,” he said, before adding:

“I think the whole thing was rolled out very poorly. They apparently never really checked with the lawyers. It could have been crafted in a way that made constitutional challenges more difficult. So, I think the roll out was very unfortunate.”

Still, Dershowitz, a leading proponent of civil liberties and a defense attorney who advised on read more >>>

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