Harvey Silverglate
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I wouldn't go out for coffee with them, but they have constitutional rights to representation.
And you take that very seriously.
Yes.
You notice something that people don't understand about Dershowitz.
He was asked by Trump to represent him in the second impeachment as well.
He turned him down.
Why do you think he turned him down?
So people should know he represented Trump in the first impeachment trial.
He represented him only in the first.
And he was successful.
And when Trump was impeached the second time, he asked Allen to represent him.
Allen has had a lifelong policy of only representing somebody once, never twice.
Why?
Because he never wanted to be house counsel to the mafia.
And so he, early on, had this position.
He only represents somebody once.
The mafia wants a lawyer who's an in-house counsel who represents them in all their cases.
So that's the reason.
And Alan never publicly explained it.
I know it's a fact because I've known him from the day that we met at Harvard Law School, 1964.