Alan Dershowitz: Fellow liberals "shunning me" because I’ve stood up for Trump’s civil liberties

theblaze.com

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz has a bone to pick with his fellow liberal friends.

In an op-ed he penned for The Hill last week, Dershowitz said some of his “old friends on Martha’s Vineyard” are “shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life.”...

Dershowitz said it stems from his defense of President Donald Trump’s civil liberties — despite his staunch disagreement with Trump’s politics.

“I have strongly and publicly opposed his immigration policies, ranging from the travel ban that was upheld by the Supreme Court to the zero-tolerance policy that led to the separation of parents and children at the border,” Dershowitz wrote of Trump. “I oppose other Republican policies as well. I voted for, and contributed handsomely, to Hillary Clinton.”

But while the Harvard Law professor emeritus is a “liberal Democrat in politics,” he’s a “neutral civil libertarian when it comes to the Constitution” — and “that is not good enough” for some his compadres on the ritzy island off the Massachusetts coast...

One of his friends — “an academic at a distinguished university,” Dershowitz wrote — has “told people that he would not attend any dinner or party to which I was invited.”

What’s more, this particular friend and others of his ilk have mandated “trigger warnings” in case of Dershowitz’s impending presence so they can ensure “safe spaces” for themselves, free from any of his “ideas.”

“Others have said they will discontinue contributions to organizations that sponsor my talks,” Dershowitz added.