Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz wasn't happy about Judge Juan Merchan's actions regarding the sentencing hearing for President-elect Donald Trump.

According to Breitbart, Dershowitz believes that Merchan's agreement to a no-punishment sentence for the incoming president was nothing more than a ploy to keep the U.S. Supreme Court from intervening in the case. 

Trump and his lawyers had asked the high court to intervene in the sentencing before it was set to happen, to no avail.

Dershowitz claims that Merchan's sentencing gimmick was to "persuade" two Supreme Court justices from getting involved in the matter.

What did he say?

Dershowitz revealed his thoughts on the matter during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, calling Merchan's sentencing a "ploy" and a "scam."

"What we saw today was a scam, a ploy," he said. "It started with Judge Merchan telling in advance what a sentence was going to be. I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve never been told by a judge what the sentence is going to be."

"When I go into the courtroom with my client, I tell him to bring his toothbrush because he doesn’t know whether he’s going home or going to Rikers or some other lockup," he continued.

He doubled down on his thoughts that the judge only did what he did to keep the high court from getting involved after Trump's emergency request.

"The only reason Merchan said in advance what he was going to do is to try to persuade the two justices of the Supreme Court not to take the case now and they use that fact."

"So this was a ploy"

"And they said the reason we’re not taking the case now and stopping the sentencing from going forward was because the judge said in advance that he’s not sentencing him to prison. So this was a ploy and the two justices unfortunately fell for the ploy.

Dershowitz called the situation "the worst thing" that has happened to the criminal justice system.

He continued, "This is the worst thing that’s happened to the American criminal justice system since McCarthyism and the civil rights abuses back in the 1950s and the victims of the American people. Trump, yes, it was hard he said very honestly, that it was tough for him, but he prevailed, he won and the American people won because they rejected lawfare. You know, I invented that term lawfare back in the ’60s. I don’t know if I’d be proud or ashamed of it, yeah."

Only time will tell if the truth of what happened ever came out.