Several news outlets are reporting that the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg are going to be criminally indicted tomorrow by a New York grand jury. Although Trump himself is not expected to be indicted tomorrow, even Trump's lawyer, Ronald Fuschetti, said of tomorrow's indictment, "this will be their (the prosecutor's) first blow." Needless to say, this suggests that additional "blows" - additional indictments - are not far behind. Indeed, continuing Mr. Fushe...
Jul 01, 2021•4 min•Ep. 73
As the nation waits for a possible indictment of the Trump Organization to be handed down by the New York grand jury in connection with District Attorney Cy Vance's investigations, the question is often asked - why does it seem to take prosecutors so long to indict people for their crimes? This video explains the difference between "reactive" grand jury investigations in which an arrest is made and prosecutors labor under strict court deadlines and "proactive" grand jury investigations - like th...
Jun 30, 2021•11 min•Ep. 72
An alarming headline in Politico indicated that Trump's lawyers are saying New York District Attorney Cy Vance won't indict Donald Trump. However, Trump's lawyers then qualified their claim by saying that DA Vance told them Trump won't be indicted in the FIRST indictment expected to be handed down by the grand jury, but that the criminal investigation in ongoing. When prosecutors investigate large RICO/conspiracy/criminal organization cases, they almost always start with relatively modest indict...
Jun 29, 2021•8 min•Ep. 71
In a stunning 33-page court order, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, suspended Rudy Giuliani's law license for his steady stream of what the court calls "uncontroverted lies" about the 2020 presidential election. The court sets out in excruciating detail the evidence that proves Giuliani lied about, among other things, voting in Pennsylvania, voting in Georgia, dead people voting, underage people voting, convicted felons voting, etc. The judges detailed how Giuliani lied at press c...
Jun 25, 2021•8 min•Ep. 70
According to Washington Post reporting, Donald Trump and his Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Allen Weisselberg have ben seen sliding in and out of Trump Tower close in time to one another, though the two have not yet been sighted together. There is some reporting that Weisselberg is resisting cooperating against Trump. If that is the case, there are several options available to New York District Attorney Cy Vance, as discussed in this video. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters ...
Jun 22, 2021•5 min•Ep. 69
There has been a rising chorus demanding accountability for Donald Trump and company for their many crimes in violation of federal law. Both Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Eric Swalwell are on record calling for a presidential crimes commission or task force to investigate and prosecute Trump. The Boston Globe recently published a six-part series arguing in favor of prosecution the criminal former president as the only way to save our democracy. Justice is a team sport. We The Peopl...
Jun 16, 2021•9 min•Ep. 69
President Biden's Department of Justice under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland has been a mixed bag. This video reviews several recent DOJ decisions, from police department "Pattern or Practice" investigations, civil rights prosecutions and high profile subpoenas of folks like Rudy Giuliani to DOJ's decision in the lawsuit for the clearing of protestors from Lafayette Square and the recent decision in the E. Jean Carroll case. Specifically, this vide contains a review of the DO...
Jun 10, 2021•10 min•Ep. 68
Donald Trump is now telling people he will be "reinstated" as president in August. He won't, of course. Here's what he's likely trying to accomplish with his latest outrageous lies. Donald Trump is a federal problem which calls for a federal solution. It's certainly a good thing that he's being criminally investigated by the states of New York and Georgia for the crimes he committed in violation of state laws. But he also must be held accountable for his federal crimes. Here's why the leadership...
Jun 10, 2021•9 min•Ep. 67
Last year, Bill Barr and others directed that Lafayette Square be cleared of protestors who were exercising their 1st Amendment rights so then-President Donald Trump could walk across the street to stand in front of a church for a political photo-op. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of protestors and journalists that were assaulted by law enforcement officers while they cleared the way for Trump's political stunt. In a troubling move, the Department of Justice has now urged the judge to dismiss the...
May 30, 2021•12 min•Ep. 66
A grand jury differs in every respect form a trial jury. Here is a detailed explainer of how grand juries operate and what it means that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has impaneled a special grand jury to sit for six months to investigate Donald Trump and the Trump Organization. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glenn...
May 27, 2021•17 min•Ep. 65
New York Attorney General Tish James made an unusual public announcement that her investigation into the Trump Organization has now changed from civil to criminal and that she is partnering with District Attorney Cy Vance. This dramatic and somewhat unusual announcement is inarguable bad for Trump and company. Here's what we know, here's what we can reasonably infer and here is a bit of informed speculation about what might have prompted this significant development. For our newly launched Team ...
May 20, 2021•9 min•Ep. 64
Matt Gaetz criminal bestie Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty in Federal court in Florida today. One of the lesser discussed charges to which he pleaded guilty is "conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States." This is an ominous charge. Though the plea agreement does not disclose what crime against the US Geernberg conspired to commit or who his co-conspirator are, today's plea is the first of what will be a series of dominos that will begin falling. Given Greenberg's cooperation with p...
May 18, 2021•6 min•Ep. 63
In an exercise of propaganda that would make George Orwell blush, Georgia Representative Andrew Clyde tells the American people that the January 6 insurrection never happened and that the behavior of the people in the US Capitol that day "looked like a normal tourist visit." With those absurd statements, Congressman Clyde likely has made himself a star witness at all future trials of those who breached the Capitol, damaged property and assaulted police officers. Each defendant now has a basis to...
May 16, 2021•8 min•Ep. 62
In a move that may signal the beginning of the end of the Republican Party as presently constituted, Republican representatives vote to oust Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her leadership position because she refuses to adhere to The Big Lie and refuses to pledge allegiance to The Big Liar. There is no reasonable argument that ousting Rep. Cheney for telling the truth will EXPAND the Republican base or attract new voters to the Republican Party. So, rather than try to attract new voters with . . ....
May 13, 2021•7 min•Ep. 61
Based on new Washington Post reporting today we've learned that "The Big Lie" was actually cooked up two years ago by a Republican political dirty trickster as a way to cast aside the will of the American voters and corruptly keep Donald Trump in power. The Republicans are insisting that all party members adhere to The Big Lie and pledge allegiance to The Big Liar or face ouster. This is yet another reason Merrick Garland's Department of Justice must move toward charging Donald Trump for his cri...
May 11, 2021•8 min•Ep. 60
There are two main ways mental health issues intersect with criminal prosecutions: 1. competency to stand trial and 2. insanity defenses. Here is an overview of those two features of the criminal justice system and why a "Foxitis" defense is not a legally viable defense in a criminal prosecution. However, the fact that defendants are saying they were inspired and incited to violence by the incessant lies of Donald Trump as repeated and amplified by Fox News should give the federal government, sp...
May 10, 2021•9 min•Ep. 59
Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued an opinion ordering the release of a Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memo and related DOJ internal communications that Bill Barr claimed factored into his conclusion that Donald Trump could not be charged for the obstruction of justice offenses documented in the Mueller report. Judge Jackson's findings are scathing, criticizing the representations of Barr's DOJ in the litigation as "disingenuous" and unworthy of "credence." For our newly launched Tea...
May 05, 2021•12 min•Ep. 58
We now know that both Rudy Giuliani and Matt Gaetz were on the receiving end of search warrants in investigations opened by Bill Barr's Department of Justice and presumably accelerated by Merrick Garland's DOJ. Here's a discussion of some of the evidence against Gaetz and Giuliani. Given what we know about the status of each investigation (which admittedly is not all that much), which of this two Donald Trump loyalists might be indicted first? For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matt...
May 02, 2021•10 min•Ep. 57
In a 10-minute interview on the Fox network that is pure theater of the absurd, Rudy Giuliani gets one of the most basic propositions about search warrants dead wrong as he struggles to explain away the federal search warrants that were just executed on his home and his office. Here is a sometimes light-hearted look at Rudy's ramblings. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #...
May 01, 2021•5 min•Ep. 56
Given the recent federal search warrants for Rudy Giuliani's home, office and electronic devices, it appears federal prosecutors may be moving in the direction of criminally charging Giuliani. The next big decision for Giuliani will be whether he wants to cooperate with prosecutors to bring others to justice. If anyone knows the value of cooperation it's Rudy Giuliani, a former US Attorney. Also, might Trump secretly have granted Giuliani a pardon before leaving office? And if Giuliani has a "po...
Apr 30, 2021•6 min•Ep. 55
When federal prosecutors in New York previously tried to obtain search warrants for Giuliani's property they were blocked by the hierarchy in Bill Barr's Department of Justice. It now looks like the era of Bill Barr's free pass for Donald Trump associates is officially over as federal agents executed search warrants on Rudy Giuliani's home, office, computers and cell phones. In a very real sense, America just took one big step on the road to accountability and justice. Here is a nuts and bolts r...
Apr 29, 2021•5 min•Ep. 54
Rather than use the available provisions of the North Carolina law to seek release of the videos that show the last minutes of Edward Brown, Jr's life, the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office decides instead to show only 20 seconds of one (of 7) videos of the fatal shooting. This is opposite of law enforcement transparency. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice pat...
Apr 28, 2021•5 min•Ep. 53
A Senate Committee takes up President Biden's nominees to join the US Postal Service Board of Governors. Only the Board of Governors can fire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy - you remember him, the guy who slowed mail delivery in advance of the 2020 elections. If confirmed, the democrats will be in control of the Board for the first time since 2016. Could justice finally be coming for Louie DeJoy? For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop...
Apr 22, 2021•5 min•Ep. 52
In the wake of the guilty verdicts of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the homicide of George Floyd there are some frequently asked question: 1. Why was Chauvin charged with three seperate homicide counts for just one killing;2. How might the judge sentence Chauvin on those three offenses of conviction;3. What is the average/guideline sentence for his crimes under Minnesota law; and4. How might the "aggravating factors" being pursued by the prosecutors impact the sentence?Here...
Apr 22, 2021•11 min•Ep. 51
In a story that has remained somewhat under the radar screen, AFTER Trump lost the election, he arranged to install loyalists at the Pentagon and the National Security Agency for reasons that have no obvious connection to our nation's security. Here is the sequence of events that led to the installation and almost immediate suspension of Devin Nunes's former Chief Counsel, 35-year-old Michael Ellis, as the NSA's top lawyer. We need to know from the Biden administration what it has found inside t...
Apr 19, 2021•11 min•Ep. 50
The Biden administration just revealed additional proof that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian intelligence to cheat/gain unfair advantage in the 2016 presidential election. It turns our that Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, provided confidential polling data and campaign strategy information to Konstantin Kilimnik who then provided it to Russian intelligence. But even more important than the substance of the information is the Biden administration's decision to release the infor...
Apr 17, 2021•8 min•Ep. 49
Search warrants require that law enforcement authorities have probable cause to believe that there is evidence of a crime in the place or thing to be searched. When the FBI and the Department of Justice apply to a federal judge for a search warrant to seize and search the cell phone of a sitting member of Congress, that is a very big deal. Here's an explanation of the search warrant process and why this development spells real trouble for Matt Gaetz. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justi...
Apr 16, 2021•9 min•Ep. 48
Derek Chauvin presented the testimony of medical examiner/forensic pathologist Dr. David Fowler. He offered different (and often unsupportable) opinions than all other experts on George Floyd's cause and manner of death. Here's a takedown of his testimony and why he likely lost more points than he won for the defense. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron ...
Apr 15, 2021•11 min•Ep. 47
Several medical expert witnesses have testified in the Derek Chauvin trial involving the murder of George Floyd. One witness was a standout: expert Pulmonologist Martin Tobin. Dr. Tobin put together for the jury the 1-2-3 of George Floyd's death in a way no other medical witness has thus far. Here is a deep dive review of why Dr. Tobin's testimony was so compelling. For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner...
Apr 09, 2021•13 min•Ep. 46
Prosecutors just nearly tripled the charges against Matt Gaetz close friend and ally, Joel Greenberg, with Greenberg's trial just around the corner - set for June. This looks like the typical prosecutorial squeeze play, with federal prosecutors looking to flip Greenberg on Gaetz. Here's how things are likely to play out . . . For our newly launched Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice...
Apr 05, 2021•5 min•Ep. 45
