Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

In breaking news, President Biden has moved to revoke Trump appointments to military academy advisory boards for Trump loyalists Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, H.R. McMaster and eight others. It certainly is important to remove from government all individuals who were doing Trump's dirty bidding. But the one Trump-appointed political hack who is in a position to do the most damage to our country a...

Texas has enacted an a law that deputizing private citizens to violate the constitutional privacy rights women have had for nearly 50 years. Here is a review of the many reasons this law should not withstand judicial scrutiny and the implications of a court system that allows private citizens to sue one another for exercising their constitutional rights. For our Team Justice and Justice Matters me...

After House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy obstructed the House Select Committee's investigation of the Capitol attack by telling telecommunications companies not to cooperate with the investigation and threatening that, if they did, the GOP "would not forget" it when they took power, eleven Republican members of Congress joined McCarthy's obstructive efforts. In a very real sense, McCarthy is now...

Two related stories: First, defendant Jacob - the so-called Q-Shaman - pleaded guilty to one felony count of obstructing Congress by trying to stop the vote certification, exactly as Donald Trump commanded. Chansley is facing 3-to-4 years in prison and will be sentenced on November 17th by Judge Royce Lamberth. The second story involves House Minotrity Leader Kevin McCarthy getting called out for...

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is seeking phone records from telecommunications companies as part of its investigation. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told the telecommunications companies not to comply with the Congressional requests and threatened that if they did, the GOP "would not forget it" once they are in power. This is a brazen act of...

In a move that is deeply damaging to the credibility and legitimacy of the US Supreme Court, the Court declined to stop an unconstitutional Texas law from going into effect. The Texas authorities passed a law saying a woman can not have an abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected - at about 6 weeks of the pregnancy - which directly violates the Supreme Court precedent of Roe v. Wade. In a very...

Florida Judge John C. Cooper tells Governor Ron DeSantis - in substance - to go pound sand, ruling that DeSantis can not stop Florida schools from requiring masks to protect children, teachers, staff and, by extension, all Floridians. But Judge Cooper didn't stop there - he also issued an injunction prohibiting the state from retaliating against school boards that require students to wear masks to...

Michigan Federal District Court Judge Linda Parker issued a scathing, 110-page opinion sanctioning nine pro-Trump lawyers for their lawsuit that was an abuse of the judicial system designed to corruptly undermine Americans' faith and confidence in the results of the 2020 presidential election. Judge Parker also directed that her opinion be provided to the state bar authorities where each lawyer is...

The House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol attack has signaled that it is conducting a massive investigation - some might even call it a sweeping and systematic - into the insurrection. The House Committee just demanded information across multiple executive branch agencies, specifically seeking information and records about Donald Trump, Don Jr., Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Eric Trump, L...

Two good news stories broke today on the justice front: 1. Rudy Giuliani's criminal associate, Igor Fruman, will be pleading guilty in federal court in New York on Wednesday. This spells real trouble for not only Rudy Giuliani but for Donald Trump as well. 2. The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection took steps today signaling that the committee will be subpoenaing the ce...

A legal commentator caused a bit of a stir today by asserting that Trump should not be prosecuted and there is "little reason even to open a criminal investigation" into Trump's conduct. This video reviews the FBI's standard for opening an investigation and surveys just some of Donald Trump's conduct to highlight why the arrestion that there is insufficient evidence to initiate an investigation is...

Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice announced it is launching a third "pattern or practice" investigation, this one of the Phoenix, AZ, Police Department. This is the third such investigation undertaken by the Biden administration, with the other two being Minneapolis and Louisville. Notably, the DOJ press release announces that it will not o...

Former Congressman Doug Collin is now representing Donald Trump (I assume he got his retainer check up front). Collins just sent a truly remarkable letter to former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen regarding Rosen's upcoming appearances before Congress to testify about his conversations with Donald Trump. In a letter that should be studied by law students in a class called "Bad Lawyering 101"...

The CNN headline says it all "Trump's $100 Million Threat to Democracy." With so much at stake, the most important question for our Department of Justice is . . . what's the hold up on charging Donald Trump for his criminal conduct? For our Team Justice and Justice Matters merchandise shop, please visit: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/glennkirschner/ Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at...

In a smoking gun revelation by the New York Times, Department of Justice Officials disclose that Donald Trump told them to lie to the American pelaple by saying the election was corrupt and he will "take care of the rest" with the help of his Republican allies in Congress. This kind of a statement constitute direct evidence of Donald Trump's corrupt intent/criminal state of mind/guilty mens Rea. t...

When it comes to the question of if and when Donald Trump will be held accountable, it may be too early to conclude the tide is turning. But given a half-dozen recent legal developments, the waters of justice undeniably are warming. Those stories include: - Both the House of Representatives General Counsel and the Department of Justice REJECT Mo Brooks plea for help in the suit that Rep. Eric Swal...

Donald Trump's friend, close associate and Inaugural Committee Chairman, Tom Barrack, was arraigned in Federal Court in Brooklyn New York and released on $250 million bail. Specifically, he was released to travel to Aspen, Colorado, where he will live in his $15,000,000 mansion pending trial. This after the Department of Justice characterized Barrack's conduct as "disloyal" to the United States. I...

Tom Barrack, longtime Trump friend/associate, and the Chairman of Trump's Inaugural Committee, has been indicted on seven felony charges. The charges include conspiracy, failing to register as a foreign agent, obstructing justice and repeatedly lying to the FBI in an attempt to cover up his crimes. The question now becomes, will Barrack decide to cooperate with prosecutors and provide any informat...

Longtime friend and associate Tom Barrack has been indicted for unlawfully acting as a foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates, (UAE) conspiracy, obstructing justice and repeatedly lying to the FBI to cover up his crimes. Barrack served as the Chairman of the Trump inaugural committee, which is also under investigation for possible financial crimes. The 46-page indictment paints a disturbing pi...

In the new book by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, "I Alone Can Fix It", the authors reveal that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley put plans in place to defeat any attempt by Donald Trump to unlawfully retain power after losing the presidential election. All military members are taught that lawful orders must be obeyed and unlawful orders must be disobeyed. Gen. Milley was honoring...

Donald Trump sat for interviews with author Michale Wolff for a new book titled Landslide. Trump reveals some things about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that should breathe new life into calls for an investigation into Kavanaugh. Indeed, New Yorker Magazine previously catalogued the many unanswered questions surrounding Kavanaugh, including his mysteriously evaporating mountains of debt. T...

Former President Donald Trump gave a hate-filled, largely fact-free speech at CPAC - the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump berated Bill Barr for not helping him overturn the election results, he slandered Hillary Clinton as his adoring fans chanted "lock her up," he mocked others and cursed like an ill-tempered teenager, and his groupies in the crowd loved it. Donald Trump will conti...

Donald Trump has filed a transparently frivolous lawsuit against Twitter, Google and Facebook, claiming his First Amendment free speech rights have been violated. The problem is, even a casual reading of the Constitution would have alerted Trump and his lawyers to the fact that the First Amendment does not apply to private businesses/social media platforms. Trump's suit will be dismissed and Trump...

Other countries prosecute their criminal leaders - Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc. For example, France, South Korea, South Africa and Italy have all prosecuted former leaders for crimes they committed while in office. However, in the United States there is no precedent for prosecuting a criminal former president. Prosecutors generally don't like to take maiden legal voyages, that is, bring a cas...

There is an ominous sentence on page ten of the Trump Organization/Allen Weisselberg indictment that suggests two other Trump Organization employees might be next in line for indictment. The sentence reads: “In addition to Weisselberg and his family member, two other employees received substantial amounts of compensation in the form of lodging in New York City and the payment of automobile leases....