Glenn Kirschner - he’s an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and former Assistant U.S. Attorney at the D.C. U.S Attorney's Office. Now you can join him for Justice Matters. Glenn brings analysis and insight to current legal issues, drawing from his 30 years as a federal prosecutor, homicide prosecutor, and Army JAG. For three decades, Glenn argued to juries and judges, breaking down complex legal issues in clear and relatable ways. Every weekday his podcast brings that same approach to his ana ...
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The Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act: Help for Families Who Lost a Loved One to Violent Crime
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We have nearly 300,000 unsolved murders in the United States. That's 300,000 families who sit by the phone waiting for a call to come from a detective saying, "we've got a break in your loved one's case." These calls almost never come. When I retired from the Department of Justice, after decades of prosecuting murder cases in Washington, DC, I was …
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Trump Again Inspires His Supporters to Violence
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In the aftermath of Trump's criminal conviction, his supporters are endangering the judge, the prosecutor and the jurors. As NBC News reported, " Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction." It's time to put a stop to Trump's dangerous, violence-inducing rhetoric by sentencing Trump to prison. If you're interes…
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Trump Guilty of 34 Felonies: Welcome Accountability!
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After a trial that lasted several weeks, a New York jury convicted Donald Trump in less than two days of deliberations. Some might say they convicted him in a New York minute. Glenn reviews the jury's guilty verdicts and discusses the upcoming sentencing and the likelihood of Judge Juan Merchan sentencing Trump to a period of incarceration. If you'…
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In further proof that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon is hopelessly biased in favor of Donald Trump, Special Counsel Jack filed a motion asking Cannon to prohibit Trump from making false, violence-inducing statements that endanger FBI agents. But rather than address the obvious violence Trump poses to others, Cannon chided Smith for not "confer…
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Jack Smith Seeks 4th Gag Order for Trump's Dangerous, Violence-Inducing Lies About FBI Agents
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Donald Trump is again telling dangerous, incendiary, violence-inducing lies. This time, his lies are about the FBI agents who executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. In a new court filing in Trump's federal prosecution in Florida, Special Counsel Jack Smith asks Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon to modify Trump's conditions of pretrial release…
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Donald Trump's Bronx Hate Rally Demonizes Immigrants, the Homeless, and Others
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It's difficult to understand how a defendant on pre-trial release in four criminal cases is still allowed to endanger the community by holding hate rallies that inspire violence. Glenn discusses the history of Trump's dangerous and reckless rhetoric - from inspiring a significant rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans during the COVID pandemic…
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Judge Aileen Cannon Grinds Trump's Classified Documents/Obstruction/Espionage Case to a Halt
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Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon should not be presiding over Trump's federal prosecution in Florida. She has brought the case to a screeching halt by declining to resolve motions in a timely manner and by refusing to even set a trial date. Judge Cannon is NOT an honest broker of the law, and the federal law requires a judge to be removed when h…
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Trump Promises to Testify But Fails to Defends Himself in New York Criminal Trial
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Donald Trump repeatedly and incessantly told the American people he would absolutely testify in his defense at his criminal trial in New York. But, when he had the opportunity to take the stand and tell his side of the story - Trump punked out. Glenn discusses a defendant's right to testify and a defendant's right to decline to testify. But importa…
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Here's How a Defense Witness Blew Up Donald Trump's Case
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As the only witness of consequence, Donald Trump's lawyers called Robert Costello to testify in Trump's defense. And if it wasn't bad enough that Judge Juan Merchan had to clear the courtroom for Costello's "contemptuous" behavior, the cross-examination of Costello (including with his own emails) also proved to be devastating to Donald Trump's defe…
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NY Trump Trial Winds Down as Michael Cohen's Testimony Concludes
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After more than 15 hours on the witness stand, Michael Cohen's testimony concluded. Although the defense attorney scored a couple points, Michael Cohen's testimony was consistent, corroborated and credible. Interestingly, Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, didn't even question Cohen about the 2017 Oval Office meeting that was key to the prosecution's ca…
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Justice Alito's Upside-Down American Flag Aligns Him with Trump's Insurrection
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On January 6th, 2021, Trump incited an insurrection, and as a result, he is pending federal prosecution for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump's angry mob showed their determination to "stop the steal" on January 6th by carrying upside-down American flags. Days later, Justice Samuel Alito's home was flying …
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Michael Cohen Finishes on Cross-Examination at Trump Trial
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After about 14 hours of testimony, Donald Trump's former lawyer, fixer, and criminal associate Michael Cohen is done on cross-examination. The defense scored some points on cross but nothing that significantly undermines the mountain of corroborating evidence that prosecutors introduced to pre-corroborate Cohen. Now the testimony turns to Cohen's r…
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Michael Cohen Performs Well on the Witness Stand
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Donald Trump's lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche, badly bungled his opening salvo when he started his cross-examination of Michael Cohen, the single most important witness in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. Glenn reviews how bad and how damaging Blanche's bungle was. In another important development, prosecutors announced that Cohen wil…
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The Red Tie Brigade Veepstakes Challenge: Circumventing Trump's Gag Order
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In 1974, Republican congressional leadership walked to the White House to tell a Republican criminal president of the United States to resign or be impeached. Now, congressional House leadership walked to a courthouse in New York to support a criminal former president of the United States. The corruption, corrosion, and compromise of the Republican…
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Michael Cohen's Testimony Directly Incriminates Trump
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After committing crimes at the direction of and for the benefit of Donald Trump (and going to prison for it) - Michael Cohen has finally testified against his criminal associate. Cohen's testimony was directly and sharply incriminating of Trump. Glenn reviews some of the most damaging testimony Cohen provided in Trump's criminal trial in New York. …
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Steve Bannon Loses His Appeal; Prison Term Dead Ahead
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One of Donald Trump's right-hand men, Steve Bannon, was convicted of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, and was sentenced to four months in prison. Unfortunately, a Trump-appointed judge, Carl Nichols, let Bannon remain free pending appeal. A DC appeals court just affirmed Bannon's convictions and gave him seven days to seek review by all…
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GA Appeals Court to Review Ruling that DA Willis is NOT Disqualified from Trump Case
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The Georgia State Court of Appeals has decided to review Judge Scott McAfee's ruling that DA Fani Willis is not disqualified from prosecuting Trump and his 18 co-conspirators in the Georgia state RICO case. Glenn discusses why this development is 1. expected, 2. not good, and 3. not necessarily all that bad. If you're interested in supporting our a…
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Judge Aileen Cannon Tries to "Catch and Kill" Donald Trump's Federal Trial in Florida
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In a remarkable move, Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon vacated (cancelled) the May 20th trial date in Donald Trump's classified documents/obstruction of justice/espionage case in Florida and she announced that she'll be setting no trial date for the time being. This is particularly outrageous given that Trump's own lawyers had previously suggest…
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Stormy Daniels Testifies About Sex with Trump at His New York Criminal Trial
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Donald Trump is on trial in New York for criminally falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments he made to Stormy Daniels to prevent her from revealing an intimate encounter they had. He did this to gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential election. Ironically, Donald Trump's own attorneys made crystal clear in court exactly ho…
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Once Again - Judge Merchan Finds Trump in Contempt
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Judge Juan Merchan, the New York State court judge presiding over Donald Trump's criminal trial for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, found Trump guilty of a 10th count of criminal contempt of court for violating his gag order again. But once again, Judge Merchan only imposed a punishment of a $1000 fine. He also again warned Trump tha…
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Hope Hicks Testifies as a Prosecution Witness in Trump's New York Election Interference Trial
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Donald Trump's longtime aide and confidant, Hope Hicks, testified as a witness for the prosecution in Trump's New York State trial for falsifying business records to gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential election. There's been plenty of discussion about how damaging HIck's testimony was to the former president. Glenn explains why he thinks…
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Judge Merchan Calls Out Trump's Gag Order Lie
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It's not often that a presiding judge publicly calls out a defendant for lying outside the courtroom. Yet, that is precisely what New York State court judge Juan Merchan found himself having to do when Donald Trump claimed that a gag order prohibited him from testifying in his own defense at trial. As reported by The Hill, the "Judge in Trump's hus…
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Trump Tells Time Magazine that He Won't Rule Out Violence if He Loses the Election
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In a moment that makes one wonder if we will ever learn our lesson, Donald Trump gives an interview to Time magazine and says he won't rule out violence if he loses the 2024 election. As CNN reported, "Trump doesn't rule out political violence if he loses." This prompts one obvious question . . . what the hell are we doing!? If you're interested in…
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Judge Merchan Finds Donald Trump in Criminal Contempt of Court
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Donald Trump has many "firsts" to his credit: first former president criminally indicted by a state; first former president criminally indicted by the feds; first former president tried for his crimes; and now, first former president held in criminal contempt. Glenn reviews Judge Juan Merchan's order, finding - beyond a reasonable doubt - that Dona…
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Will the Supreme Court Buy Trump's Claim that He's Immune from Prosecution?
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Donald Trump is indicted on 88 felony counts, across four jurisdictions, for crimes he committed - many of them while he was serving as president. Trump's lawyer, John Sauer, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that Trump shouldn't be prosecuted for the crimes that were committed while he was in office. Specifically, Sauer said that the following …
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Testimony of McDougal & Daniels May Be Some of the Most Damning Evidence Against Trump
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Donald Trump, on trial in New York for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, has denied any relationship with Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels. Yet he arranged for them to be paid more than $100,000 each to cover up information they could provide about him, so that information would not hurt his election chances in the 2016 presidential…
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Trump's Own Words Will Sink Him in His Criminal Cases
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As The New York Times reported, " Trump's Trial Could Bring a Rarity: Consequences for His Words." People are fully aware that Donald Trump says and posts anything that occurs to him in the moment, without any filter or regard for the truth of what he's saying or the consequences of the lies he tells. But now that Trump is moving from the court of …
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Has Trump Violated His Conditions of Pretrial Release?
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Judge Juan Merchan is about to decide if Donald Trump is guilty of criminal contempt for violating the court's gag order at his election interference trial in New York. Assuming he holds Trump in contempt, that will represent a violation of Trump's conditions of pretrial release in his criminal cases. Why is this dire for Trump? Judge's have told h…
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Trump's New York Contempt Ruling is Imminent
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Day two of his criminal trial was no better for Donald Trump than day one. His friend and long-time associate David Pecker testified about the dirty "catch-and-kill" scheme they conspired to execute to assist Trump in his political pursuits. Pecker also testified that Trump was very detail-oriented, to the point of being a "micromanager." This dire…
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Opening Statements in Trump's First Criminal Case
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Donald Trump's first criminal trial (of four criminal trials) started in earnest on Monday with opening statements and it turned out to be something of a lopsided affair. Glenn reviews some of the points made by the prosecution and some of the . . . curious arguments offered by Donald Trump's defense attorney. If you're interested in supporting our…
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Trump's 1st Criminal Trial Presents Real Challenges for Trump's Attorneys
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Glenn discusses the three goals of a prosecution's opening statement and the three goals of a defense opening statement. There are always lots of tactical challenges for both the prosecutors and the defense attorneys. But there is one challenge in particular that Trump's attorney's will face, and it's a choice that may end up alienating the jurors,…
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Prosecutors File Sandoval Notice of Misconduct They'll Use if Trump Testifies
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Now 12 jurors and six alternates have already been qualified to serve on the Trump jury in the 2016 election interference trial in New York. In another development, the prosecutors just filed what's called "Sandoval Notice" detailing 13 instances of uncharged misconduct they intend to use on cross-examination of Trump in the (unlikely) event he dec…
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Judge Merchan's Unusual Jury Selection Process
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The jury has been selected in a New York courtroom to judge the guilt or innocence of a former president of the United States. This is an important step in the direction of fulfilling the long-dormant American promise that no one is above the law. Glenn does a deep dive into several jury issues, including Judge Juan Merchan's unusual process of let…
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New York Prosecutors Ask Judge Merchan to Hold Trump in Criminal Contempt.
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Donald Trump has violated the gag order imposed by Judge Merchan in his New York criminal prosecution. Trump has repeatedly violated the gag order - talking about and endangering the witnesses in the case. Now NY District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors have filed a motion formally asking Judge Merchan to hold Trump in criminal contempt and fine…
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Recap of Trump's First Day at His New York Criminal Trial
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Today, Donald Trump went from an aspiring "day-one dictator" to a "day-one defendant" at his big 2016 election interference trial in New York. Just days ago, Trump told his supporters that he wanted "all hell to break loose on Monday." But given the anti-Trump protests outside the courthouse today, it looked like all accountability was breaking loo…
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Evidence From Trump's Earlier Statement of Facts Contradicts His Hush Money Alibi
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Criminal trials can often be a bit like popularity contests. Each attorney will strive to be liked, trusted, and respected by the jury. In a sense, each attorney will want to be the most popular in the eyes of the jury. But more importantly - how does the jury views the defendant? Does the defendant come across as likeable, trustworthy, or honorabl…
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Prosecution Witnesses in NY Case: Cohen, Stormy, Hicks, Pecker, and Others Spell Trouble for Trump
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New reports have revealed the prosecution witnesses that are prepared to testify at Donald Trump's first criminal trial and they spell real trouble for him. Those witnesses, as you might expect, include Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. But surprisingly on the list: former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, former Director of the Oval …
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Allen Weisselberg Sentenced AGAIN for Perjury
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Donald Trump's longtime Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sent back to Rikers Island after pleading guilty to committing perjury at Trump's New York fraud trial. Weisselberg had served time at Rikers previously after pleading guilty to being involved in a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud in the first degree while serving as the C…
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Judge Merchan to Instruct Jury: This is a "2016 Election Interference" Case
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There are two good news stories to report. First, a New York appeals court judge rejected Donald Trump's attempt to stop his trial from beginning on April 15th. But; in a lesser-covered development; Judge Juan Merchan shared how some of the jury selection procedures will work. People often refer to Trump's New York prosecution as the "hush money" c…
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Trump Tries to Delay his 2016 Election Interference Trial by Suing Judge Juan Merchan
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Donald Trump and his lawyers have again reached into their dirty little bags of tricks in a desperate effort to stop his first criminal trial from beginning on April 15th. Trump is suing the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, as The New York Times reports: "Trump to sue judge in last-ditch attempt to avert Manhattan trial." Glenn says this desperate Ha…
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New York Attorney General Tish James Challenges Trump's $175 Million Bond
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So it looks like the person that put up the $175 million bond to stop New York Attorney General Leticia James from seizing Trump's properties - a guy named Don Hankey - is not actually credentialed to do business in New York. Accordingly, Attorney General James filed a "notice of exception" to the bond, and Judge Arthur Engoron has now set a hearin…
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Trump Criticizes Judges Engoron, Chutkan, McAfee, and Kaplan - BUT PRAISES Judge Cannon!
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If it already wasn't crystal clear that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon should be removed from presiding over the prosecution of the very defendant who bestowed upon her a lifetime appointment as a federal judge, it is now beyond reasonable dispute. Judge Cannon ruled AGAINST Trump, denying his motion to dismiss the 32 espionage counts in his F…
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Jack Smith Tells Judge Cannon: Your "Legal Premise is WRONG"
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Special Counsel Jack Smith just filed a motion in Donald Trump's federal prosecution that is a direct and searing criticism of the conduct of Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon. Glenn reviews the new court filing by Smith and determines he's now closer than ever to filing a motion to remove Judge Cannon from presiding over a case in which the defe…
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Did Trump ALREADY Violate Judge Merchan's Expanded Gag Order?
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On Monday, New York Judge Juan Merchan issued an expanded gag order prohibiting Donald Trump from talking about the family members of the judge, prosecutors and their respective staffs. On Tuesday, Trump reposted comments by a Fox broadcaster talking about Judge Merchan's daughter. Did Trump already violate the expanded gag order? And if so, will j…
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Trump Files Another Motion to Delay His Trial
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In an absurd legal brief, Trump's lawyers file a motion with New York State court judge Juan Merchan asking him to delay the April 15th trial date because there is too much publicity surrounding Trump and his crimes. And because too many potential jurors in New York already believe Trump is guilty. Glenn takes on Trump's ridiculous motion seeking m…
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Trump Disrespects ALL Police Officers by Promising Pardons to January 6th Insurrectionists
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Donald Trump thinks he can do one political photo op - attend the funeral of a slain NYPD police officer - and it will erase the FACT that he sent a mob to the US Capitol on January 6th to "fight like hell" and "stop the steal." His supporters proceeded to attack, beat and assault more than 100 police officers. Trump responded by telling the attack…
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John Eastman to be Disbarred & Jeffrey Clark Pleads the 5th
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It's been a really bad couple of days for two Trump-affiliated lawyers, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark. After a bar counsel ethics trial, a California judge ruled that John Eastman - one of the architects of the fake elector scheme - should be disbarred, saying that his "actions were carried out with deceit or dishonesty" and his plan to derail Joe…
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Why Does the Government Think the Laws Apply Differently to Donald Trump?
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There can be no reasonable dispute but that the institutions of government - particularly the Department of Justice - apply the rules, the laws, and the Constitution differently to Donald Trump than to the rest of us. And we are forever asking ourselves . "Why is this happening?" Glenn tries to take on that question by drawing from his decades of e…
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New York State Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order on Donald Trump. This is the 3rd gag order judges have felt compelled to issue to Trump to protect witnesses, jurors, court and prosecutorial staff, and family members. What does this say about the way our criminal justice system deals with a dangerous defendant who in on pretrial release in fou…
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A Tale of Two Cases: The Good News and the Bad News
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New York State court judge Juan Merchan seems fed up with the incessant attempts by Trump and his legal team to delay his criminal trial for interfering in the 2016 election by making hush money payments and falsifying business records to cover them up. Judge Merchan ruled that Trump's NY prosecution will begin with jury selection on April 15. In a…
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