Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

In our longform weekend podcast - Glenn recounts this week's Trump news. First, District Attorney Fani Willis tells Representative Jim Jordan, in no uncertain terms, that he is abusing his authority by interfering in her RICO prosecution of Donald Trump. Glenn says unfortunately, this abuse by Jordan and other Trump insurrectionists in Congress will continue until the Department of...

Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion in Donald Trump's DC prosecution seeking to protect jurors from Trump's dangerous speech and social media posts. The "Motion for Fair and Protective Jury Procedures" seeks to have the court use a juror questionnaire to streamline the jury selection process in the DC case, and seeks to prohibit Trump and his lawyers from publicly disclosing the identiti...

Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed his opposition to Donald Trump's motion to move his classified documents trial until AFTER the 2024 presidential election. Glenn says "The only remaining question is: will Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon cater to the president who appointed her to the federal bench by moving the trial 14 months down the road?" For our Team Justice and Justice Matters mercha...

The New York Times reported: "Trump said to have revealed nuclear submarine secrets to Australian businessman." Defendant Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases: two state and two federal. If the law was applied as intended, Trump would be in a jail cell, detained pending trial. But he's not. Instead, he's ruminating about perhaps being the next Speaker of the House of Representative. G...

This time in our longform weekend podcast - Glenn runs down the top stories of the week: 1. New York state court Judge Arthur Engoron PROMTLY issued a gag order when Trump posted something endangering the judge's law clerk. Glenn says that's undoubtedly a good and necessary step - but what does it say about the fairness of our criminal justice system and the equal application of our laws that...

Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York has begun, and he predictably started the day with dangerous rhetoric directed at the Judge and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Specifically, Trump said people should "go after the Attorney General." On a lighter note, one of Trump's attorney's, Christopher Kise (who was previously sanctioned by the judge for his conduct in the pretrial litigat...

There have been recent developments in the Georgia RICO case against Donald Trump, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, and others. In a dramatic development, one of Donald Trump's co-defendants, Scott Hall, has agreed to plead guilty and testify at the trials against the other co-defendants. Glenn says this spells real trouble for Trump and th...

Judge Tanya Chutkan has issued a 20-page ruling denying Trump's demand that she recuse herself from presiding over his federal prosecution in DC. Glenn does a deep dive into Judge Chutkan's thorough, well-reasoned and persuasive written ruling. For our Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkir... Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron...

In our weekend podcast this time - Glenn discusses the many losses of Donald Trump in court. In his court cases in recent weeks, Donald Trump has distinguished himself as . . . The Biggest Loser. He's on a world-class losing streak in both his civil and criminal cases, as Glenn discusses in this episode.  As but one example, New York Judge Arthur Engoron just delivered a fatal blow...

Donald Trump's lawyers have filed an opposition to Special Counsel Jack Smith's request that Judge Tanya Chutkan impose some limitations on Trump's speech, prohibiting him from threatening, intimidating or harassing the witnesses against him. The filing by Trump's lawyers reads like a combination of an extended tweet and a Trump campaign ad. Glenn explains why Trump's lawyers are dead wrong in the...

Our criminal justice system is currently struggling. Donald Trump is on pretrial release in four felony prosecutions - two state cases and two federal cases. As a condition of his pretrial release, Trump has been ordered not to threaten the witnesses against him - yet, he has done just that. The Independent reports: "Trump suggests Mark Milley should be executed in possible breach of pre-trial rel...

Donald Trump's former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, now adds to his troubles being sued for more than $1 million by his own lawyers for failure to pay his legal bills. This development is on top on Giuliani: being an indicted RICO defendant/co-conspirator in Georgia; being an un-indicted co-conspirator in the federal prosecution of Trump in Washington, DC; admitting to lying about and defaming Georgia st...

During Donald Trump's interview on Meet the Press, he told lie after lie after lie, continuing his attempts to poison all future jury pools. Several media organizations, then attempted to publish articles - fact checking and correcting Trump's stream of lies. On the upside, Trump said things that destroyed his potential "advice of counsel" defense, so some may say, let Trump keep taking as he cont...

In a new court filing, Special Counsel Jack Smith absolutely destroys the efforts by Donald Trump's attorneys to try to remove Judge Tanya Chutkan from presiding over Trump's federal trial in DC for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Glenn says Trump's filing has no merit. Then, Jack Smith has, at long last, filed another motion asking Judge Chutkan to issue an o...

Judge Scott McAfee, the judge presiding over Donald Trump's Georgia state RICO trial, rejected the attempts of defendants Keneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell to sever or separate their cases from one another and go to trial alone. However, McAfee did sever the other 17 defendants out of the first trial and will set their trial dates in the future. Glenn does a deep dive into Judge McAfee's seven-pag...

This time in our longform weekend podcast - Glenn talks about the recent developments in Donald Trump's Georgia RICO case. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee wrote an order explaining how he'll split the trial dates for the 19 Georgia defendants. Glenn says so far the judge seems to be on track. Then he discusses the pros and cons of not being the first to go to trial. Co-Co...

The desperation of Donald Trump and many of his co-conspirators is showing. Attorney/RICO defendant Kenneth Chesebro has filed a motion asking the judge to dismiss his case claiming he was "justified" in giving the Trump campaign legal advice about the fake elector scheme. Also, Mark Meadows has filed an emergency appeal after a judge's denial of his motion to transfer his case from Georgia state...

After hearing extensive evidence of election crimes from Donald Trump and his many criminal associates, the Georgia state special grand jury recommended indicting 40 individuals. However, the RICO indictment that was issued in Georgia charges only 19 of them with crimes. Glenn says there are many different ways this could play out in court. Then, Trump is on pretrial release in four felony cases,...

A federal judge just ruled that Mark Meadows failed to even make the minimal showing that his Georgia RICO prosecution should be transferred from state court to federal court. This finding is likely to be fatal to any effort Trump may have mounted to try to move HIS case to federal court. Glenn says this ruling means Meadows, Trump and their other criminal associates and co-conspirators will be tr...

This time in our longform weekend podcast - Glenn runs down the legal recap of the week and he discusses how the rule of law is keeping democracy in place. The rule of law is the only thing that can right our American ship. We must do not only the easy prosecutions, like the crimes designed to steal elections... we need to do the hard prosecutions, including sitting members of Congress who defy su...

Constitutional scholars, both Republican and Democrat, are unifying behind one position: section 3 of the 14 Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from holding any federal office in the future, including the presidency, because he engaged in an insurrection against the United States, after taking an oath to support the Constitution. Scholars say the constitutional disqualification is self-executing,...

Donald Trump has four serious felony prosecutions pending against him. Yet, he continues to say and post things that put prosecutors, judges, witnesses and jurors in harm's way. The legal test for whether someone should be detained pending trial is as follows: is there clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is either a flight risk or is a danger to the community? The evidence clearly est...

DC federal court judge Beryl Howell has ruled that Rudy Giuliani is liable for lying about and defaming Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman. The lawsuit brought by Moss and Freeman will now move on to the damages phase for a jury to determine how much Giuliani will have to pay the two woman in compensatory and punitive damages. Glenn says "How do you return the sense of...

This time in our longform weekend podcast - Glenn gives us an update on the Trump Trials.  1. First, Judge Tanya Chutkan gives Trump a March 4th, 2024 date in his federal trial for his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Glenn discusses what he saw from inside the courtroom at Trump's status hearing.  2. Then he goes over the latest on DA Fani Willis' RICO prosecuti...

Glenn was in the courtroom for the status hearing in Donald Trump's federal case in DC for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump's lead attorney, John Lauro, started out the hearing loud and then got even louder. Indeed, Judge Chutkan twice told Lauro to "take the temperature down." Glenn reviews the ins and outs of the court hearing and discusses why Judge Chutkan ma...