Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

In the case of Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court quite literally ruled that portions of our Constitution are unconstitutional. This is a gross abuse of judicial power by six Supreme Court justices. Kim Wehle is a law professor, a constitutional law and separation of powers expert, an ABC News legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor, and the author of three books (links below). She also has a fourth book set to b...

President Joe Biden made the historic decision to step aside and pass the leadership torch to the younger generation. In the event Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the nominee of the Democratic Party, the election will, in a very real sense, pit a former prosecutor against a current criminal defendant. Glenn says he likes the prosecutor's odds in this fight for the future of American democracy.

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In a strange twist of events, Hunter Biden's attorneys have filed motions to dismiss his cases, citing as authority the recent ruling of Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon declaring that special counsel can not lawfully be used to prosecute cases. Glenn discusses why Hunter Biden's motions to dismiss are likely to be denied.

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As Rolling Stone just reported, "Trump's RNC Hosts a Rowdy Celebration of Lawlessness and Crime." From Peter Navarro to Rudy Giuliani to the many criminally indicted fake electors who are attending, the RNC convention is a lawlessness-jamboree, a defendant-palooza. But there is one way to stop our government from morphing into one big criminal enterprise. And it involves November 5th . . .

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Political violence is never the answer to our nation's problems, disagreements, and divisions. Political violence was wrong when Donald Trump perpetrated it on January 6th, and it was wrong when it was perpetrated against him at his rally in Pennsylvania. There is no answer yet as to why a registered Republican decided to arm himself with an assault rifle and do what he did. But one thing is clear - if we don't do better, ...

The New York Times Editorial Board has published a piece detailing why Donald Trump is unfit to retake the reigns of federal power and why he poses an extreme danger to American Democracy. The piece is broken down into five parts: "Moral Fitness Matters", "Principled Leadership Matters", "Character Matters", "A President's Words Matters," and "The Rule of Law Matters". Or, put another way Justice Matters. Glenn does a deep...

After long-enduring obvious corruption, conflicts, abuses and potential crimes by Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, members of Congress are finally trying to do something about it. Senators Whitehouse and Wyden have formally requested that Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate Thomas and Alito for potentially violating federal financial disclosure laws, ...

In new reporting by Hugo Lowell of the Guardian, it turns out, "Trump plans to block Hearings in January 6 case before 2024 election." It's no surprise that Donald Trump desperately wants to stop the dozens of Republican witnesses who testified about his crimes to the DC grand jury - from testifying publicly at the hearings Judge Tanya Chutkan will hold now that the Supreme Court is returning the case to her. Glenn reviews...

Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon continues to wear her Trump favoritism on her sleeve. A number of motions filed by Jack Smith have languished, remaining unresolved for months. As but one example, back in May, Smith filed a motion asking Judge Cannon to modify Trump's conditions of release to stop him from lying about and endangering FBI agents. Cannon has sat on that motion. However, Trump filed a motion asking Cannon ...

The Supreme Court didn't JUST rule that presidents have absolute presidential immunity. They actually ruled that presidents have absolute presidential immunity PLUS.

Constitutional scholars left, right, and center are excoriating the new Supreme Court opinion that 1. contradicts the expressed language of our constitution, 2. actually repeals portions of our constitution, and, in essence, 3. declares the constitution is unco...

Just days after his right-wing Supreme Court justices gave him presidential immunity, Donald Trump has endorsed a military tribunal prosecution for former Congresswoman Liz Cheney. Presumably, the Supreme Court will have Trump's back on that crime as well. Now that the Supreme Court has converted the lawless into the lawful, and given that Trump made clear he will use military tribunals to prosecute his enemies (by falsely...

By granting Donald Trump immunity for the crimes he committed against the American people; the radical, right-wing block of the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, actually encourages presidents to commit crimes.

Eventually, this Supreme Court opinion will go the way of Dred Scott vs. Sanford, and Plessy vs. Ferguson - it will be reversed and will go down in American history as an opinion that sought to destro...

The Supreme Court just can't quit Donald Trump. Interestingly, the Supreme Court does nothing to help Trump's criminal flunkies: Steve Bannon just reported to prison; Peter Navarro is serving a prison term; and Rudy Giuliani was just disbarred in New York and is facing multiple criminal prosecutions. Yet the Supreme Court just bestowed absolute presidential immunity on presidents, unleashing them to commit crimes against t...

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court disregards the plain language of a law by which Congress criminalized conduct that "obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding." Roberts and the majority then delivers a gift to Donald Trump and several dozen of his insurrectionists. Importantly, in a dissenting opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by justices Kagan and Sotomayor, call Robe...

July 1, 2024, is a dark day in American history. A captured, right-wing Supreme Court granted immunity to Donald Trump for the crimes he committed against the American people - crimes he committed to unlawfully and unconstitutionally retain the power of the presidency after losing the 2020 election.

Now, the American people are left to be the jurors - and we will declare Trump guilty at the ballot box come Nov. 5.

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Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon is unfit to preside over Donald Trump's criminal case in Florida. In a new piece for MSNBC - Glenn explains some of the data points that prove Judge Cannon's "impartiality might reasonably be questioned," such that the federal law mandates that she "shall disqualify herself form the case."

As if to prove the point, The New York Times has reported that Judge Cannon "will revisit key ruling...

Another of Donald Trump's criminal flunkies - Steve Bannon - is now headed to prison on July 1st, given the Supreme Court has rejected his request to delay the commencement of his 4-month prison term. Bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying congressional subpoenas to testify and to provide documents about the January 6th attack on the US Capitol which was designed to keep Trump in power after...