A federal judge this week rejected a motion by CNN to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz. The abridged version CNN presented of remarks Dershowitz made to the Senate during former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial “is not accurate, to the extent that it omitted a crucial qualification: that an illegal motive for a quid pro quo would be corrupt,” U.S. District Judge Judge Raag Singhal, a Trump nominee, wrote in his 22-page ruling. At issue is a Jan. 29, 2020, broadcast on CNN which featured hosts employed by the network, as well as panel guests, including other CNN employees, going over arguments made that day during Trump’s impeachment trial. While Dershowitz spoke for over five minutes to answer a question from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on whether “quid pro quo” arrangements are used often in foreign policy, CNN zeroed in on a single …