Washington (CNN) Legal scholars are panning new arguments championed by Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, who recently joined President Donald Trump's legal team and is making the case that Trump cannot be impeached because he didn't commit any crimes. "Without a crime, there can be no impeachment," Dershowitz said. CNN legal analyst Ross Garber, one of the leading impeachment experts in the country, also rejected Dershowitz's reasoning. Former independent counsel Robert Ray, another new addition to Trump's legal team, made the same case as Dershowitz in a CNN op-ed last year . He was countered by CNN legal analyst Michael Zeldin, who endorsed the more broadly accepted view that a crime wasn't necessary.

Source: CNN January 20, 2020 21:45 UTC