Harvard legal scholars Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe sparred on Twitter Monday over the prospect of the House of Representatives pursuing the impeachment of President Trump. Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard, called out Tribe -- a Harvard professor of constitutional law -- over a Washington Post column in which Tribe said House Democrats should proceed on impeachment even if they never try Trump in the Senate. Dershowitz said Tribe's argument is contrary to how the framers of the Constitution viewed impeachment, arguing Tribe "would have gone apoplectic" if Republicans had done the same thing to Bill or Hillary Clinton. Tribe countered by accusing Dershowitz of not reading the article and said he "NEVER proposed 'impeach[ing] POTUS' without 'referring it to the Senate for trial. '”"I left open ‘DISPENSING with impeachment’ and ‘embodying [House] conclusions of criminality … in a … resolution far stronger than a mere censure,'" he responded.

Source: Fox News June 11, 2019 13:40 UTC