Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of National Guard soldiers to the streets of the District of Columbia, seized control of the DC Metropolitan Police Department, and said he was taking 120 FBI agents out of their current assignments and making them patrol the streets of DC. As the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Brian Schwalb said, as reported by The Hill, "DC attorney general: Trump's actions are 'unp...

A New York federal court judge has rejected the motion filed by DOJ/Pam Bondi/Todd Blanche to release the grand jury transcripts in the Ghislaine Maxwell case.

According the ABC News, Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a lengthy opinion, criticizing the "Department of Justice for using 'demonstrably false' reasoning to justify the release of grand jury testimony." The judge also said releasing the transcripts would not reveal any...

It wasn't long ago that DC Federal District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan was presiding over Donald Trump's criminal case for his attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election form the American voters. Judge Chutkan is a fair, impartial, independent, and no-nonsense judge who refused to put up with the dilatory tactics and other shenanigans of Trump and his lawyers in that case.

Judge Chutkan is now once again involved in a h...

The Trump/Epstein/Maxwell scandal is not going away. In recent days, Donald Trump and Pam Bondi have tried to distract the public by announcing investigations of former President Barack Obama, Senator Adam Schiff, and New York Attorney General Leticia James. But no matter how many Trumped-up investigations they announce, they will not distract the public's attention from the Trump/Epstein/Maxwell scandal.

In fact, every day...

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator in child sex trafficking crimes, was interviewed by Trump's former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche. Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison and has every incentive to curry favor with Blanche and Trump in hopes of a presidential pardon.

When interviewing someone in Maxwell's situation, there is one thing any responsible, honest, ethical prosecutor would do B...

The Donald Trump/Pam Bondi reality show continues with reporting that the DOJ will release a transcript of an interview Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, conducted with convicted child sex trafficker and indicated perjurer Ghislaine Maxwell.

In the interview, Maxwell reportedly said Trump did nothing wrong. Of course, we already suspected that was the case for at lease two reasons. First, after the int...

Another day, another attempted distraction from the Epstein/Maxwell scandal. As Trump's presidency continues to be dragged down by the Epstein debacle and the favors he's doing for Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Attorney General Pam Bondi announces a bogus investigation into Barack Obama and his administration for investigating the connections between Trump and Russia in advance of the 2016 election.

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Donald Trump is drowning in the Epstein/Maxwell scandal. So day after day he tries to create a distraction. The latest? His Department of Justice will be investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Glenn discusses why this particular investigation will go exactly nowhere!

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It looks like Trump and company are already currying favor with Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. News broke that Maxwell was transferred from FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) Tallahassee - a prison that houses men and women - to a low-security women's "federal prison camp" in Texas.

As a career federal prosecutor, there were times when Glenn arranged for the transfer of inmates from one co...

The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility has issued a report recommending that former Department of Justice lawyer Jeffrey Clark be disbarred for his role in Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The Report states: "On the merits, we conclude that Disciplinary Counsel proved by clear and convincing evidence that Respondent (Jeffrey Clark) attempted to make intentiona...

With a big "FU" to the federal judiciary and the American People, Senate Republicans confirm Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Emil Bove, to the 3rd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals.

The Republicans didn't care that Bove was credibly accused of telling DOJ lawyers that they would need to tell federal court judges "FU" and defy their court rulings if those orders interfered with Trump's deportation efforts.

I...

Pam Bondi's Department of Justice continues to try to gaslight the American people in new and ridiculous ways, filing a complaint against the chief judge of federal district court in Washington, DC.

Notably, the Washington Post published a deep dive piece regarding the unethical conduct of the Trump administration in federal court cases: "Trump officials accused of defying 1 in 3 judges who ruled against him."

The Post docum...

Senators Richard Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse are demanding that the Department of Justice release the tapes of the recent interviews with Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney and current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch reportedly interviewed Maxwell for nine hours. The only way the American people will be able to have any confidence in what Maxw...

Donald Trump's Department of Justice lawyers can't litigate their way out of a paper bag. Of course, most of the blame lies with Trump himself. When he's not on the golf course, he's in the Oval Office signing unlawful and unconstitutional executive orders, one after another. Attorney General Pam Bondi then sends her third-rate DOJ lawyers into court to try to convince federal judges that Trump's lawless actions are lawful...

If Donald Trump thought suing the Wall Street Journal would get them to back off on their reporting about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, it looks like he was sorely mistaken. The Wall Street Journal isn't backing down, it's doubling-down, printing a new story reporting that Trump is not only IN the Epstein files but that Pam Bondi TOLD HIM his name appears in the Epstein files.

In a related legal development, a federal ...

The federal judges are trying their best to protect the American people against Donald Trump's lawlessness and unconstitutionality. In a recent court ruling, DC Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan - not only ruled that the Trump administration violated a federal statute that requires transparency and public disclosure about how the executive branch is spending ("apportioning") the people's tax dollars, but he directly an...

Donald Trump's former defense attorney and current political appointee Todd Blanche reportedly is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is represented by Blanche's "friend" David Oscar Markus. This is a veritable conflict jamboree, and no one is likely to have any confidence in whatever Blanche tells the American people happened in the meeting.

Glenn sets out five reasons as to why this meeting between Blanche and Maxwell sti...

Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal in federal court in Southern Florida, perhaps hoping that he would again draw Aileen Cannon as a judge. But he didn't. Rather, the same judge that presided over the lawsuit Trump brought against Michael Cohen - Judge Darrin Gayles - was assigned the Wall Street Journal case.

Judge Gayles has seen the Trump show before . . . in court . . . up close and personal. After suing Cohen for...

Donald Trump's base is fleeing from him and turning against him as a result of his pathetic flip-flop on releasing the Epstein files.

So Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have come up with an absurd scheme to try to mitigate the damage: release the Epstein grand jury transcripts.

Here's the problem: the transcripts have been in the possession of the Department of Justice for years and Bondi undoubtedly knows every word co...