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 Protecting Freedom created a TV ad supporting Amendment 4. The commercial plainly and inarguably constituted political speech protected by the First Amendment....
Oct 29, 2024•21 min•Ep. 541
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 special counsel, only an Attorney General can. Trump's lawlessness is reminiscent of Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre," when he ordered several DOJ ...
Oct 28, 2024•15 min•Ep. 540
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 Donald Trump - Ryan Routh - was arrested and Judge Cannon was assigned to Routh's case, in which Trump is the victim. Now, Routh's attorney has filed a...
Oct 25, 2024•12 min•Ep. 539
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 control of money in his bank accounts. As the Hill reported, "Judge orders Giuliani to hand over assets to Georgia election workers." Glenn discusses the ...
Oct 24, 2024•12 min•Ep. 538
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 Harris never worked at McDonald's, Trump pretended to work at a closed McDonald's where he served pretend orders to supporters pretending to be customers."...
Oct 23, 2024•6 min•Ep. 537
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 view behind the black bars. What can we glean from the number and nature of the redactions? Well, prosecutors often make such redactions to protect th...
Oct 22, 2024•11 min•Ep. 536
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 attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6th, there by incriminating himself (as he so often does). Interestingly, that statement is actually an incriminating twofer...
Oct 21, 2024•9 min•Ep. 535
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 exactly that. So Trump filed a motion saying, in substance, "invalidate my conviction too," seeking to have thrown out HIS charges for obstructing the cong...
Oct 18, 2024•13 min•Ep. 534
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 'hunting FEMA' Causes Hurricane Responders to Evacuate." Glenn discusses the way we can stop Trump - VOTE! If you're interested in supporting our all-v...
Oct 17, 2024•11 min•Ep. 533
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 newspaper in Missouri wrote a scathing rebuke of state’s Sen. Josh Hawley, calling the populist Republican “quite possibly the worst sitting senator in ...
Oct 16, 2024•7 min•Ep. 532
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. Spoiler alert: because this is not an appealable order, Trump's litigation options are slim-to-none, and slim is fading fast. Glenn discusses the ONLY...
Oct 15, 2024•13 min•Ep. 531
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 supporters who are refusing aid from FEMA because they believe Trump's lies. One such person, as MSNBC reported, has no food and no electricity but will ...
Oct 14, 2024•11 min•Ep. 530
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 office, the presidential immunity his Supreme Court Justices gave him will not protect him. Of course, the Department of Justice would need to invest...
Oct 11, 2024•8 min•Ep. 529
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 Kavanaugh probe, report finds." Glenn discusses the dire consequences of Trump not permitting a full and fair investigation into the allegations and tips reg...
Oct 10, 2024•10 min•Ep. 528
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 - which prohibited disclosure to Trump of a period of six months after the execution of the search warrant - is entirely typical to protect ongoing inves...
Oct 09, 2024•11 min•Ep. 527
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 pressure campaign on state election officials 3. The fake elector scheme 4. The pressure campaign on Mike Pence 5. The insurrection - launching his a...
Oct 08, 2024•14 min•Ep. 526
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 that once someone joins a conspiracy, that person can be held criminally responsible for every crime committed by every other member of the conspiracy, p...
Oct 07, 2024•14 min•Ep. 525
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 why Trump should never again be allowed to get within a thousand miles of the Oval Office. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts...
Oct 04, 2024•10 min•Ep. 524
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 another criminal case - the consummate danger to people in the United States. Given that the law provides that a defendant on release in a felony case ...
Oct 03, 2024•9 min•Ep. 523
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 Government Committee" claiming that the Department of Justice is being weaponized AGAINST Republicans. This is an absurd contention given that, in rece...
Oct 02, 2024•16 min•Ep. 522
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, which is presently the subject of an appeal by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Now, in a twist that is stranger than fiction, Judge Cannon has been assi...
Oct 01, 2024•12 min•Ep. 521
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 Trump's objections and then order Smith's brief to be filed on the public docket for all to see. Glenn gives a detailed discussion of these new legal dev...
Sep 30, 2024•21 min•Ep. 520
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 lawyers might do WHEN Trump loses this next election in November. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justi...
Sep 27, 2024•9 min•Ep. 519
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 efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'd like to support us and buy Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise visi...
Sep 26, 2024•12 min•Ep. 518
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 Trump's upcoming trials. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner If you'...
Sep 25, 2024•11 min•Ep. 517
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, Trump's lawyers are urging the judge to disregard the directives of the Supreme Court and just toss Trump's case entirely, without conducting the litigat...
Sep 24, 2024•9 min•Ep. 516
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 knowingly and intentionally told those lies, the people of Springfield have been in danger. There have been more than 30 bomb threats made to government bui...
Sep 23, 2024•9 min•Ep. 515
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 as Trump's Chief of Staff. This is not only bad news for Meadows, but it provides a preview of how Judge Tanya Chutkan may rule on the similar questio...
Sep 20, 2024•13 min•Ep. 514
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 oppose the delay makes sense. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at: / glennkirschner...
Sep 19, 2024•17 min•Ep. 513
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 went on to rule that "Giuliani has utterly failed to carry this burden," and dismissed the case. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer ef...
Sep 18, 2024•9 min•Ep. 512
