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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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Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, has withdrawn his name from consideration after it became clear that the Senate Republican would no go along with Trump's desire to install Gaetz as the nation's top law enforcement official. Importantly, this is the second defeat that Senate Republicans delivered to Trump, after refusing to go …
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Prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal case in New York informed the judge that they may seek to stay or pause Trump's sentencing until after Trump leaves the presidency. Glenn reads part of the prosecutors letter and gives his take on how and when justice should happen for Trump. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you ca…
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NBC News has reported that as many as 30 Senate Republicans are saying they won't confirm Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General - Matt Gaetz. Will the Senate protect their own constituents and the American people as a whole against this unqualified, dangerous pick? Or will they fold like a cheap lawn chair and give in to Trump? If you're interes…
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With reporting that Special Counsel Jack Smith is "winding down" his two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump, the question becomes: can Jack Smith preserve the cases to be prosecuted once Trump leaves office? Newsweek reported, "Jack Smith May be Able to 'Revive' Donald Trump Cases" according to legal analyst Barbara McQuade. Glenn discusses the 3…
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In a move that seems exactly calculated to turn the Department of Justice into his own personal law firm, (as he tried to do in the past), Donald Trump has named three of his personal criminal defense attorneys to some of the highest leadership positions at the DOJ. Glenn discusses the dangers of having a Department of Justice that is doing the wor…
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In a move that caused an eruption of REPUBLICAN in-fighting, Donald Trump named Matt Gaetz as his pick for Attorney General of the United State of America. Politicians, left, right and center, promptly spoke out in recognition of one unassailable truth - Gaetz is not qualified to be AG. So what's really going on here? Well, the House Ethics Committ…
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Ever since a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony crimes involving falsifying business records to cheat in the 2016 presidential election, we've been waiting for the case to proceed to sentencing. We were expecting a ruling from the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, on November 12th on Trump's motion to dismiss based on the Supreme Cou…
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We are looking for points of light wherever we can find them. Today's legal development provides a point of light from a most unlikely place - the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court refused to disturb the rulings of lower federal court judges that Meadows' conduct and crimes to help Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia were n…
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State governors and attorneys general have been coming together and pledging to protect the citizens of their respective states in the event the future Trump administration engages in abuses, overreach or lawlessness. Glenn discusses the 10th Amendment and how we need to look for the points of light that will pierce the coming darkness. If you're i…
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Rudy Giuliani has been playing games in his attempt to avoid turning over his assets and property to the two Georgia state election workers, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, a jury said he defamed, and ordered him to pay $146 million in damages. The federal judge overseeing enforcement of the money judgement, Judge Lewis Liman, has told Giuliani and hi…
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While Special Counsel Jack Smith is deciding what to do with Trump's federal criminal cases, he needs to indict Trump's thus far unindicted co-conspirators. Glenn discusses the legal consequences of indicting or declining to indict the co-conspirators that were included in Trump's federal indictment for attempting to steal the 2020 presidential ele…
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New reporting by NBC News: "Trump's victory likely upends all the criminal cases against him." Glenn discusses the consequences of Special Counsel Jack Smith winding down the federal criminal cases against Trump and the likelihood that Smith is in the process of preparing his Special Counsel report on all on Trump's federal crimes. If you're intere…
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Let's hope there is some truth to the old adage, "It's always darkest before the dawn." Glenn takes on some of the frequently asked questions about what happens now, given that Donald Trump has said he will be "a dictator on day one." If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirsc…
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This presidential election is the most important in our nation's history, as the choice is between a former prosecutor who values the rule of law and a convicted felon who has pledged to be a dictator on day one and "terminate" portions of the Constitution. Glenn discusses the legal consequences should Donald Trump AGAIN falsely announce that he wo…
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As a federal prosecutor, Will Rollins represented the people of the United States in court. He's now seeking to continue serving the people, specifically the people of California's 41st congressional district. Will is a former federal prosecutor who focused on counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases in Southern California. He’s from a family…
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Judge Aileen Cannon's favoritism and bias in favor of Donald Trump is well-established. And the law provides that even the appearance of bias and favoritism (no actual bias/favoritism is necessary) warrants the removal of a judge from presiding over a case. The defendant charged with plotting a Trump assassination, Ryan Routh, filed a motion to hav…
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has confirmed to The New York Times that he and Donald Trump have a "little secret" designed to help Trump take power regardless of the election's results. Recall - Trump had not just one but FIVE little secret plans to steal the 2020 election: 1. A little secret plan to have his dirty lawyers file more than 60 fraudulent…
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Donald Trump held a hate rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. The reviews are in: NPR - "Off-color jokes, vitriol take over Trump Madison Square rally"; The New York Times - "Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism"; and The New York Daily News - " RACIST RALLY". But one of the most troubling things reveal…
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After Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and his Republican legislators banned abortion in Florida after 6 weeks (at which point most women may not even know they're pregnant), 900,000 Floridians signed a petition to get abortion rights on the ballot as a constitutional amendment, designated as Amendment 4. A pro-choice group called Floridians Protectin…
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Recent reporting makes clear that Donald Trump is proudly and enthusiastically lawless. First, he announced that if elected he will fire Special Counsel Jack Smith - the very prosecutor who is pursuing Trump in two federal criminal cases - adding that he will fire him "within two seconds" of taking office. Of course, a president can't fire a specia…
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Many of us have waited a very long time for Special Counsel Jack Smith to file a motion to remove Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon from presiding over Trump's criminal case in Florida. Unfortunately, Judge Cannon dismissed the case before Smith ever got around to filing a recusal motion. Then, the defendant who allegedly planned to assassinate D…
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At long last, the chickens have come home to roost for disgraced Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. A judge has ordered that the 2 Georgia state election workers Giuliani defamed, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, can now seize and sell Rudy's high-priced New York condo, his luxury cars, his expensive watch collection, his sports memorabilia, and can take cont…
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For some reasons Donald Trump is threatened by the fact that Kamala Harris worked at McDonald's in her youth. He has even accused her of making it up. So Trump decided that he would work at McDonald's for a day, but even THAT was exposed as a sham, a con, a show. As New York Magazine put it: "So in an effort to highlight his claim that Kamala Harri…
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Judge Tonya Chutkan denied Donald Trump's motion to delay the public release of 2000 pages of documents in Trump's 2020 election interference case, making clear that it's Trump who is seeking to inject politics into the litigations. Upon the release of nearly 2000 pages of documents, we discovered that tons of the evidence is related - hidden from …
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Someone should tell Donald Trump "You know, you have the right to NOT incriminate yourself." In a recent town hall campaign event, Trump repeatedly said "We did not have guns (at the US Capitol) on January 6th". By choosing to describe the insurrectionists using the personal plural pronoun "we", Trump directly aligned himself with the folks who att…
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Jack Smith has filed his opposition to Trump's motion to dismiss based on the Supreme Court's ruling in the Fischer case. In Fisher, the Supreme Court ignored the text of the federal statute that criminalize conduct that "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding" and invalidated the convictions of the insurrectionists who did exact…
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When will it stop? When will the institutions of government address Donald Trump's lies and violence-inducing rhetoric? Trump, JD Vance, and some of their fellow Republicans are telling lies about the federal government's efforts to help hurricane victims, and those lies are inspiring the following conduct, as reported by Newsweek: "Armed Militia '…
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Lucas Kunce is running for the Senate from Missouri against "The Running Man" himself, Josh Hawley. With an upraised fist, Hawley encouraged and spurred on those who attacked the US Capitol on January 6th. He then lead the vote to refuse to certify Joe Biden's clear election win. Here's what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said about Hawley: A local ne…
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Judge Tonya Chutkan has ordered the release of the evidence that supports the narrative of Donald Trump's January 6th crimes that appears in Special Counsel Jack Smith's 165-page brief. But, Judge Chutkan gave Trump and his lawyers a seven-day stay, before her release order takes effect, for them to consider any litigation options they might have. …
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Just as Donald Trump 's COVID lies endangered the lives of the America people, Trump is at it again. Now he's telling lies about the government's response to the hurricanes that have been ravaging some of our southern states - lies that are being debunked by REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS like North Carolina's Chuck Edwards. And there are Trump sup…
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Bob Woodward's new book "War" reveals that after Donald Trump left the presidency he made many calls to Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Logan Act is a federal law that prohibits private citizens from engaging in diplomacy with foreign countries to try to impact disputes with that country. Notably, if Trump violated the Logan act after he left…
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New reporting reveals that Donald Trump and his administration controlled and constrained the FBI's investigation into the allegations of misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh, and they ignored the 4,500 citizen tips that came in regarding Brett Kavanaugh's unsuitability to be a Supreme Court Justice. As Axios reported, "Trump White House curtailed Kavanau…
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As part of his investigation into Donald Trump's 2020 election subversion crimes, Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for Trump's Twitter/X account information. Smith also obtained a typical nondisclosure order directing that Twitter/X can not disclose to Trump the fact that the feds had seized his account information. This nondisclosure order - w…
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Special Counsel Jack Smith's mega-brief detailing Donald Trump's election subversion crimes is breathtaking. The first 85 pages - the factual proffer - details all five of Trump's corrupt schemes to steal the 2020 presidency: 1. Having his co-conspirators - his dirty lawyers - file more than 60 bogus lawsuits challenging the election results 2. His…
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Special Counsel Jack Smith's recent court filing details not only the crimes committed by Donald Trump but the crimes committed by his alleged co-conspirators, folks like Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and others. Smith included this information for a reason: the legal doctrine of co-conspirator liability provides tha…
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In anticipation of conducting the litigation the Supreme Court directed her to conduct on the issue of presidential immunity, Judge Tanya Chutkan placed on the public docket Jack Smith's 165-page motion setting out the crimes of Donald Trump and why he is not immune from prosecution. Smith's motion reads like a 165-page opening statement, showing w…
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As the Guardian reported, "Trump condemned for suggesting 'one really violent day' to combat crime." Donald Trump's only real policy position is that violence is the all-purpose solution to everything he claims ails America. This makes Donald Trump - a defendant on pretrial release in multiple criminal cases and on release pending sentence in yet a…
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Jim Jordan is STILL in criminal defiance of a subpoena. He violated a subpoena that sought his testimony about the democracy-busting crimes of Donald Trump. But Jordan chose to defy the subpoena and hide the evidence of Trump's crimes from Congress and, by extension, from the American people. Even with all that, Jordan created a "Weaponization of G…
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Trump appointed Judge Aileen Cannon did favor after favor for Donald Trump while she was presiding over his Classified Documents/Obstruction of Justice/Espionage case, and was reversed by an appeals court for abusing her discretion and acting in ways the law didn't allow. Then, Cannon dismissed Trump's criminal case contrary to prevailing precedent…
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In rapidly developing events, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed his "oversized motion" detailing all the evidence of Donald Trump's January 6th crimes, and Judge Tanya Chutkan has set an October 1st (at noon) deadline for Trump's lawyers to file any objections to the redactions in Smiths' motion. Thereafter, it appears Judge Chutkan will rule on Tru…
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After being disbarred in New York, Rudy Giuliani was just disbarred again. This time, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals disbarred Rudy from ever practicing law again in the courts of Washington , DC, for the election lies he pursued on behalf of Donald Trump. Glenn runs down the past crimes of Giuliani and ponders what Trump's current lawye…
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Glenn had the pleasure of being invited to testify before Congress about Donald Trump and the Republican's rule-of-law busting Project 2025. The challenge: in a five-minute-long opening statement, Glenn had to highlight and summarize why Project 2025 represents Trump's blueprint for autocracy. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer ef…
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The most powerfully incriminating witness against Donald Trump is always . . . Donald Trump. As The Washington Post headline related: "With one exaggerated anecdote, Trump kneecaps his Jan. 6 defense." Glenn explains how a Trump story about controlling his angry MAGA mob with a single tweet will be admissible as sharply incriminating evidence at Tr…
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The Supreme Court returned Trump's criminal case to DC Federal Court Judge Tanya Chutkan directing her to hold hearings to determine which of Trump's January 6th crimes involved official presidential acts and which did not. Trump's lawyers have filed a 34-page brief demanding that Judge Chutkan "dismiss" Trump's case "promptly." In other words, Tru…
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Donald Trump and JD Vance knew the stories they were telling about pets being abducted and eaten by immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were lies, yet they told them anyway. As the Wall Street Journal just reported: "How the Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors About Pet-Eating Migrants - After Being Told They Weren't True". Ever since Trump and Vance knowin…
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A federal judge in Arizona has rejected Mark Meadows' attempt to have his criminal case moved from Arizona state court to federal court, ruling that the things Meadows did with, at the direction of, and for the benefit of Donald Trump in tying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election - didn't constitute part of his official duties …
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To absolutely no one's surprise, Donald Trump and his lawyers just filed a request for a 30-day delay in the deadline to submit his brief in the appeal for his classified documents case. What some folks did find surprising - Special Counsel Jack Smith did NOT oppose the delay. Glenn says there are actually three reasons why Smith's decisions not to…
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Rudy Giuliani has failed in court yet again - this time in spectacular fashion. Giuliani had filed a lawsuit claiming President Joe Biden had defamed him in a 2020 presidential debate. Yet, after Biden's lawyer objected to Rudy's failure to prove personal jurisdiction to bring the lawsuit, Rudy "failed to object to the motion." The federal judge we…
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Donald Trump is being prosecuted for (among other things) lying to his supporters about stolen votes and rigged elections. He whipped them up into a frenzy and then he told them to go to the US Capitol and stop the certification of a presidential election. Put another way, Trump intentionally lies to incite violence. And now he's at it again. Trump…
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It seems there's hardly a court case Donald Trump can't lose. The highest appeals court in New York has rejected Trump's attempt to get the existing gag order in his New York criminal case lifted. The appeals court rejected Trump's arguments and left the gag order in place while Trump's case is pending sentencing. Trump is circling the drain. If yo…
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