Donald Trump has unlawfully and unconstitutionally attempted to seize complete control of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). And Pam Bondi has tried to push the highly-regarded MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith out of her job and install a Trump flunky named Terry Cole. Is it any surprise that the Trump administration is trying to push out a black female police chief and install a mediocre white guy? Glenn reviews this recent legal development and reviews the applicable law, ...
Aug 21, 2025•13 min•Ep. 751
Donald Trump has had control of the DC Metropolitan Police Department for only a few days, but he's already signaling that he wants Congress to extend his control of the city's police forces. This continued dictatorial power grab is an obvious attempt to distract the public's attention from the Trump/Epstein/Maxwell scandal, as DOJ is still refusing to release the Epstein files. For nightly live Law Talks, please join Glenn on Substack: glennkirschner.substack.com If you're interested in support...
Aug 20, 2025•9 min•Ep. 750
Immigrants being detained by ICE at a facility in Manhattan had been complaining for weeks about unsanitary and inhumane conditions. A spokeswoman for Trump's Department of Homeland Security said those complaints were lies. But once a video of the conditions inside that facility was published by The New York Times, it turns out the confinement conditions were, indeed, inhumane, with detainees sleeping on dirty concrete floors for days or weeks without a mattress or even a thin mat of any kind. A...
Aug 19, 2025•11 min•Ep. 749
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 'unprecedented, unnecessary, and unlawful.'" Glenn reviews the law governing T...
Aug 18, 2025•16 min•Ep. 748
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 new information of any consequence, and that it looked like an effort by...
Aug 15, 2025•11 min•Ep. 747
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 high-stakes court proceeding involving and impacting Donald Trump. A pro-d...
Aug 14, 2025•17 min•Ep. 746
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 the clamor for the release of the Epstein files grows stronger, and even...
Aug 13, 2025•9 min•Ep. 745
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 BEFORE asking her about the possible crimes of others. And it's something ...
Aug 12, 2025•13 min•Ep. 744
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 interview, the DOJ rewarded Maxwell with a move to a cushy women's prison ca...
Aug 11, 2025•11 min•Ep. 743
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. The harder Trump tries to distract from and coverup the Epstein files, th...
Aug 08, 2025•12 min•Ep. 742
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! For nightly live Law Talks, please join Glenn on Substack: glennkirschner.substack.com If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'd like t...
Aug 07, 2025•12 min•Ep. 741
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 confinement facility to another. In this podcast he discusses the two most ...
Aug 06, 2025•16 min•Ep. 740
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 intentionally false statements when he continued to advocate that the Justice Depar...
Aug 05, 2025•15 min•Ep. 739
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. In a related story, Attorney General Pam Bondi seemed to take Bove's advice...
Aug 04, 2025•17 min•Ep. 738
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 documented how Trump officials have defied court orders in 38 cases, given fa...
Aug 01, 2025•14 min•Ep. 737
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 Maxwell said is for DOJ to release the full recordings of those interviews. A...
Jul 31, 2025•16 min•Ep. 736
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. And, they are losing in case after case, in courtrooms from coast to coa...
Jul 30, 2025•11 min•Ep. 735
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 judge in Florida denied Bondi/DOJ's motion to unseal the grand jury trans...
Jul 29, 2025•14 min•Ep. 734
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 and pointedly told the Trump administration, "stop violating the law!" In a ...
Jul 28, 2025•13 min•Ep. 733
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 stinks to high heaven. For nightly live Law Talks, please join Glenn on Subs...
Jul 25, 2025•13 min•Ep. 732
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 $500 million, Trump abandoned the suit right before he was going to have...
Jul 24, 2025•10 min•Ep. 731
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 contained in those transcripts. Does anyone really think that Trump would ...
Jul 23, 2025•20 min•Ep. 730
In a time when Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are trying to bury all Jeffrey Epstein-related information, including Epstein's client list, they decided to fire Maurene Comey, the highly-regarded career federal prosecutor who was entrusted with handling some of the most high-profile and sensitive federal prosecutions in N.Y., like Epstein, his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, and Sean "Diddy" Combs. Glenn discusses the implications of Trump and Bondi firing the person who might know more about the e...
Jul 22, 2025•11 min•Ep. 729
NPR reported, "As Republicans call for transparency into Epstein probe, Trump lashes out". Trump seems to be unraveling as a result of the backlash surrounding his decision to refuse to release information about the Epstein files. In social media posts he refers to his supporters as "weaklings" and says Republicans who disagree with him are "stupid" and "foolish." Glenn reviews the current procedural posture of the Maxwell case and discusses several possibilities about how things might play out ...
Jul 21, 2025•10 min•Ep. 728
Only Congress can create or close a government agency like the Department of Education. However, the six right-wing Supreme Court Justices ruled that Trump can continue his efforts to close the Department of Education even though it clearly violates the doctrine of separation of powers. Justice Sotomayor authored a powerful and persuasive dissenting opinion, exposing the illegality and unconstitutionality of what Trump is doing, and highlighting the danger to American democracy when the Supreme ...
Jul 18, 2025•15 min•Ep. 727
A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump's law enforcement agents have been violating the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in the way they have been conducting mass immigrations sweeps in California. In language as clear as it is compelling, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong said in her ruling and order: "Do all individuals—regardless of immigration status-share in the rights guaranteed by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution? Yes, they do. Is it illegal to condu...
Jul 17, 2025•14 min•Ep. 726
A federal judge has certified a class action lawsuit to protect all children who would be impacted by Donald Trump's unconstitutional birthright citizenship ban, and he issued a preliminary injunction putting a temporary stop to it. In a very real and direct sense, federal judges from coast to coast are protecting we the people against Trump's lawlessness and abuse of power. Glenn does a deep dive into the new court ruling, and highlights how the four below-listed organizations are fighting for ...
Jul 16, 2025•12 min•Ep. 725
Donald Trump is forever populating his enemies list: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Adam Schiff, Leticia James, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, Miles Taylor, Chris Krebs, John Brennan, and Comey, and of course, the OG of Trump's enemies list, Hillary Clinton. Importantly, not a single one of these people has ever actually been prosecuted or charged with any crime. Glenn lays out the five reasons why Brennan and Comey are very unlikely to ever be prosecuted. If you're interested in supporting our all-volun...
Jul 15, 2025•16 min•Ep. 724
Three new legal developments can accurately be described as the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good - a federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's attempt to cut all medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The bad - the Supreme Court issues a stay that moves the Trump administration a step closer to mass firings of federal employees and closing federal agencies. The ugly - the government of El Salvador exposes the lies of the Trump administration and Pam Bondi's Department of Justice, and a fede...
Jul 14, 2025•20 min•Ep. 723
Trump's cognitive decline was on full display when a reporter asked him a simple question about how long detainees would have to stay at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz facility in the Florida Everglades. Trump asked the reporter to repeat the question and she did. Trump then launched into a nonsensical rant that had noting to do with the question that was twice asked. Watching this change makes clear that Trump wasn't unwilling to answer the simple, twice-repeated question, but rather was unab...
Jul 11, 2025•10 min•Ep. 722
