Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

Donald Trump filed a lawsuit trying to prevent information about his possible role in the insurrection from being provided to the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol. In a court hearing on November 4, 2021, Judge Tanya Chutkan dismantled each and every argument Trump's lawyer, Justin Clark, made in his desperate attempt to stop the House select committee from getting...

The Washington Post printed a 3-part series taking an extraordinary deep dive into the before, during and after of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. This again raises the question many have been asking throughout the 10 months since the attack on our democracy: is Attorney General Merrick Garland's Department of Justice criminally investigating Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the re...

On Thursday, October 21st, the House of Representatives voted to hold Steve Bannon in Contempt of Congress and referred him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. All eyes now turn to the Bannon Indictment Watch. Fortunately, there is precedent on this precise issue: in 1983, Congress voted to hold EPA official Rita Lavelle in contempt of Congress, referred her for prosecution and,...

Last time a contemptuous congressional witness was prosecuted, it was Reagan Administration official Rita M. Lavelle in 1983. In that mater, the full House of Representatives voted unanimously - 413 to 0 - to refer Ms. Lavelle for prosecution. This was when Congress understood the importance of enforcing its subpoenas against contemptuous witnesses. The full House is about to vote on whether to re...

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump has filed yet another lawsuit trying to hide from Congress and, by extension, the American people, evidence of his criminal conduct in connection with the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and our democracy. The case has been assigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, a former public defender in the courts of Washington, DC, and a smart, strong and fearless federal judge. Thi...

New York State Supreme Court Judge Doris Gonzalez has ordered Donald Trump to appear and testify at a deposition on Monday, October 18. Trump and his security staff are being sued by a group of protestors assaulted by Trump's security staff at a protest in front of Trump Tower. When Trump was forced to sit for a deposition in 2007, it didn't go well, as he was caught in lie after lie. This video d...

Steve Bannon refused to comply with a congressional subpoena and members of the House Select Committee investigation the January 6 attack on the US Capitol have said they will refer Bannon to the Department of Justice for prosecution. This video answers frequently asked question like: Can Steve Bannon drag out the process and try to run out the clock as did Don McGahn and Donald Trump in civil lit...

President Joe Biden rejected Donald Trump's request that the White House invoke executive privilege to hide from Congress and the American people his (Trump's) misconduct in connection with the insurrection. But it's what Joe Biden said in announcing that decision that should instill confidence in the American that President Biden is intent on holding Donald Trump accountable for his misconduct. I...

The Senate Judiciary Committee must released a report titled, "Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election." Among other crimes, the Senate details how Trump pressured acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to overturn the election results. The conduct described in the report makes clear that Trump committed the crime of Coercion of Politi...

Donald Trump's crimes, cover-up and corruption continue unabated. The Guardian reports that Trump is preparing to instruct Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel and Dan Scavino to commit the offense of contempt of Congress by refusing to comply with lawfully issued congressional subpoenas. Considering that these four individuals can provide evidence that is likely to incriminate Donald Trump, Tru...

Donald Trump inarguably committed multiple crimes. If Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice fail to charge Trump, a de facto precedent will be set. Here is what's at stake for the nation if Trump's crimes go unaddressed. For our Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #TeamJust...

Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol have said in no uncertain terms that, if witnesses refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas they will refer those witnesses to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. This approach was unavailable to Congress during the tenure of Attorney General Bill Barr, as Barr was more interested in pro...

Two defendants were just sentenced to relatively short prison terms for participating in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6. As reported by the Washington Post, there were two important aspects of the sentencing hearings: first, the defendants both said some version of, "I got swept up in the moment" and "I got carried away." What are the legal implications for the larger insurrection inves...

As more defendant's who attacked the US Capitol on January 6 have their cases resolved with misdemeanor pleas, federal judges are questioning the way cases are being handled by the Department of Justice. Here are the two questions posed by Judge Emmet Sullivan, the judge presiding over the case of insurrection defendant Dawn Bancroft, and how those two questions can be answered. This video also di...

The Republican Party has been trying to nefariously use the law in efforts to hold down, defeat and demoralize certain segments of the American populaiotn, from voter suppression laws to redistricting/gerrymandering to recounts/audits/fraudits and passing laws depriving women of their constitutionally protected privacy rights. However, this is NOT a winning formula for the Republican Party. On a r...

In reporting that is equal parts enlightening and frightening, it was reveled that Trump officials at the Department of Homeland Security Office were lying about and manipulating intelligence information about three topics: Russia wanting Trump to win reelection, the Mexican border and white supremacy in the US. A Trump administration official named Brian Murphy, a Republican, became a whistle blo...

Recent reporting revealed that Steve Bannon advised then President Donald Trump to "kill the Biden presidency in the crib." This is the language of seditions, rebellion and insurrection. Bannon then made his circumstances even worse by first admitting on his podcast that he made the statement and then trying to justify it by invoking a poll that showed 42% of the American people question the legit...

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol just issued four subpoenas for testimony and documents from Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Kash Patel and Dan Scavino. This raises several important legal issues, including: Is there really any viable claim of executive privlege to defeat these subpoenas? If the witnesses fail to comply with these lawfully issued congress...

Donald Trump just sued his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times for $100 Million (apparently taking his cue from an Austin Powers movie). Here's why Trump's absurd lawsuit is dead on arrival. For our 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/glennkirschn...

Alan Weisselberg and the Trump Organization were back in a New York courtroom today in connection with the criminal case pending against them. In open court , Weisselberg's attorney announced that they are expecting additional indictments in the future. This video reviews the nature of the case, discusses the implications for Donal Trump of his organization and his Chief Financial Officer being cr...

Recent Senate hearings have exposed to full public view the dramatic and consequential failures of the FBI in both the investigation of Larry Nassar's horrific crimes against the Olympic gymnasts and the investigation into the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. This video reviews the failures - and, in some instances, the intentional misconduct - of FBI agents a...

A troubling pattern has emerged: when a Republican loses an election (and sometimes even before they lose), they cry foul, claim the election is rigged and undermine confidence in the public's confidence in election outcomes. There is one readily identifiable cause of this relatively new phenomenon: we have failed to prosecute election crimes. Here is a review of how we got here and what we now ne...

The next pro-Trump rally is slated for DC on Saturday, September 18th. Although it's difficult to fathom, this rally is actually being held IN SUPPORT OF those who attacked the US Capitol on January 6. Even as the federal government is preparing to protect the Capitol on 9/18, we are learning more about the Capitol attack on 1/6, courtesy of some information revealed via a Freedom of Information A...

As the insurrection cases continue to work their way through the court system, approximately 10% of those charged in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol have now entered guilty pleas, with the first insurrection case set to go to trial on October 18. In an important signal that the investigation may be moving on to some of the most serious potential charges, the FBI stated in a search warrant t...

The House Select Committee investigating the insurrection has requested 35 telecommunications companies preserve their records in anticipation of future subpoenas. Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene not only objected to the companies preserving their records but make threats that squarely constitute obstruction of a congressional proceeding. In an almost comical turn of events, after a doze...