Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

With reporting that Special Counsel Jack Smith is "winding down" his two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump, the question becomes: can Jack Smith preserve the cases to be prosecuted once Trump leaves office? Newsweek reported, "Jack Smith May be Able to 'Revive' Donald Trump Cases" according to legal analyst Barbara McQuade. Glenn discusses the 3 main options for Jack Smith in deciding what to d...

In a move that seems exactly calculated to turn the Department of Justice into his own personal law firm, (as he tried to do in the past), Donald Trump has named three of his personal criminal defense attorneys to some of the highest leadership positions at the DOJ. Glenn discusses the dangers of having a Department of Justice that is doing the work of a corrupt president rather than doing the wor...

In a move that caused an eruption of REPUBLICAN in-fighting, Donald Trump named Matt Gaetz as his pick for Attorney General of the United State of America. Politicians, left, right and center, promptly spoke out in recognition of one unassailable truth - Gaetz is not qualified to be AG. So what's really going on here? Well, the House Ethics Committee was preparing to release an ethics investigatio...

Ever since a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony crimes involving falsifying business records to cheat in the 2016 presidential election, we've been waiting for the case to proceed to sentencing. We were expecting a ruling from the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, on November 12th on Trump's motion to dismiss based on the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling. But Judge Merch...

We are looking for points of light wherever we can find them. Today's legal development provides a point of light from a most unlikely place - the US Supreme Court. The Supreme Court refused to disturb the rulings of lower federal court judges that Meadows' conduct and crimes to help Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia were not part of Meadows' official duties as Chief of St...

State governors and attorneys general have been coming together and pledging to protect the citizens of their respective states in the event the future Trump administration engages in abuses, overreach or lawlessness. Glenn discusses the 10th Amendment and how we need to look for the points of light that will pierce the coming darkness. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts,...

Rudy Giuliani has been playing games in his attempt to avoid turning over his assets and property to the two Georgia state election workers, Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, a jury said he defamed, and ordered him to pay $146 million in damages. The federal judge overseeing enforcement of the money judgement, Judge Lewis Liman, has told Giuliani and his lawyers that their arguments as to why Giuliani...

While Special Counsel Jack Smith is deciding what to do with Trump's federal criminal cases, he needs to indict Trump's thus far unindicted co-conspirators. Glenn discusses the legal consequences of indicting or declining to indict the co-conspirators that were included in Trump's federal indictment for attempting to steal the 2020 presidential election. If you're interested in supporting our all-...

New reporting by NBC News: "Trump's victory likely upends all the criminal cases against him." Glenn discusses the consequences of Special Counsel Jack Smith winding down the federal criminal cases against Trump and the likelihood that Smith is in the process of preparing his Special Counsel report on all on Trump's federal crimes. If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you...

Let's hope there is some truth to the old adage, "It's always darkest before the dawn." Glenn takes on some of the frequently asked questions about what happens now, given that Donald Trump has said he will be "a dictator on day one." If you're interested in supporting our all-volunteer efforts, you can become a Team Justice patron at:  / glennkirschner   If you'd like to suppo...

This presidential election is the most important in our nation's history, as the choice is between a former prosecutor who values the rule of law and a convicted felon who has pledged to be a dictator on day one and "terminate" portions of the Constitution. Glenn discusses the legal consequences should Donald Trump AGAIN falsely announce that he won the presidency before all votes are counted, as...

As a federal prosecutor, Will Rollins represented the people of the United States in court. He's now seeking to continue serving the people, specifically the people of California's 41st congressional district. Will is a former federal prosecutor who focused on counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases in Southern California. He’s from a family of both Republicans and Democrats. He's running f...

Judge Aileen Cannon's favoritism and bias in favor of Donald Trump is well-established. And the law provides that even the appearance of bias and favoritism (no actual bias/favoritism is necessary) warrants the removal of a judge from presiding over a case. The defendant charged with plotting a Trump assassination, Ryan Routh, filed a motion to have Cannon recuse herself from his case given that T...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has confirmed to The New York Times that he and Donald Trump have a "little secret" designed to help Trump take power regardless of the election's results. Recall - Trump had not just one but FIVE little secret plans to steal the 2020 election: 1. A little secret plan to have his dirty lawyers file more than 60 fraudulent lawsuits to try to steal the election 2. A secret...

Donald Trump held a hate rally at Madison Square Garden Sunday night. The reviews are in: NPR - "Off-color jokes, vitriol take over Trump Madison Square rally"; The New York Times - "Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism"; and The New York Daily News - " RACIST RALLY". But one of the most troubling things revealed at the rally was Trump telling the crowd that h...

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....

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 l...

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...

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 rep...

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 w...

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...

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 incriminat...

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 substa...

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 Evacu...

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 sta...