Constitutional law expert Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax Tuesday a lawsuit filed by the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, over his arrest at an ICE detention facility is “frivolous.”
Dershowitz told “Newsline” on Tuesday that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s lawsuit won’t get very far — at least in the court system. “No; it’s a frivolous lawsuit designed to make political points.”
He said the timing of the situation makes it look more like a politically coordinated act, since the mayor is involved in an election. “He’s the villain here. He engaged in what appears to be illegal conduct, he and others. And they have to pay the consequences for it.”
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