Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner

Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal prosecutors have added a bonus indictment against Donald Trump - charging him and his employees with trying to erase video evidence of people hiding boxes of classified documents. Glenn explains why this is a key factor to the case. Then, he discusses conspiracy charges. These crimes have special rules because there is more than one person involved. Glenn gives a Team Justice class on conspiracy cases, how it applies to Trump, and why the law bends normal court rules for this type of charge.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This time in our longform weekend podcast, Glenn again recaps the legal stories of the week. First up: Rudy Giuliani has admitted in court that he lied about 2 Georgia election workers - Shay Moss and Ruby Freeman. Glenn says this warms his heart. Second: Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty after his plea breaks down in court. Glenn explains - this actually happens a lot more often than you think. Third: We knew that there was a search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago. But when a court filing was unsealed this week we learned there were actually EIGHT search warrants obtained in connection with the investigation of Trump's documents crimes. Glenn wonders - so what's with the other seven search warrants? And fourth: The new Trump indictment includes new counts of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information. Prosecutors also added a third defendant to the case: Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, who they say schemed with Trump and his valet, Walt Nauta, to conceal the footage from investigators. Glenn explains how the law works for co-conspirators. Then winding it up, another discussion on reform. Republicans in congress attempted to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden and change our democracy to a dictatorship. They asked for pardons because they knew they broke the law. Glenn says "Is personal responsibility in today's Republican party an oxymoron?"See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A recently unsealed court motion reveals that the Department of Justice obtained and executed 8 search warrants while investigating Donald Trump's obstruction and documents crimes. The warrants and affidavits were filed in connection with the federal case involving Trump's mishandling of classified documents. We know about the warrant at Mar-a-Lago because Trump told everyone - but what were the other seven? Glenn guesses that the other warrants were not for his other properties because Trump would have blabbed about it and grifted off it.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows seems to be out of the public eye lately. Glenn wonders if he will be a star prosecution witness against Donald Trump at trial or will he be a co-defendant with Trump when the January 6th indictment drops? Meadows has testified to a federal grand jury hearing evidence about the plot to overthrow Biden's win in the 2020 election. Glenn questions if he plead the 5th when he testified or did he flip on Trump and tell them everything. He points out a few clues that show he was probably uncooperative.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Donald Trump received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith warning him he's about to be indicted for his illegal schemes to try and stay in power after the 2020 election. Glenn breaks down the 3 charges in the letter. Then, as the January 6th House Select Committee wrapped up their investigation - they referred some of Trump's crimes to the Department of Justice. One of the charges they referred was left out of the target letter sent to Trump. Glenn explains - there's a reason that this one charge is very important.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In today's longform weekend podcast - Glenn recaps the Trump legal stories of the week. First, Glenn talks about Florida Judge Aileen Cannon who has made a ruling on when the classified documents trial should be held. Glenn says she split the difference between both parties. Next, there's new information about Trump's Georgia state election crimes as reports now say that DA Fani Willis will bring RICO charges to the table when indictments are announced. Then, Glenn discusses Donald Trump revealing he received a target letter warning him he is about to be indicted for trying to overturn Biden's win in the 2020 election. Glenn explains what target letters are and explores the 3 different charges that are listed in the target letter. And finally, Glenn talks about the need to reform ethics in government. Trump committed many crimes and the GOP ignored it as it happened. How can we fix this in the future? Glenn talks about his idea to reform ethics in government, misprision of a felony, and adding 22 words to the oath of office to make government workers more accountable.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon heard arguments from the prosecutors and from Donald Trump's attorneys about what date his classified documents case should go to trial. Glenn gives his take on the timing. Plus, Donald Trump's new favorite legal mantra. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Donald Trump has announced that he's been officially informed that he's a target of the federal insurrection investigation. Glenn says this means Special Counsel Jack Smith is ready to ask the grand jury to indict him for inciting the January 6th riots at the capitol and for his part in trying to overturn Biden's win in the 2020 election. Now Trump has some big decisions to make and he has 4 days to decide. Will he appear before the grand jury to testify? Glenn explains what he thinks Trump will do and what will happen next.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Donald Trump recently complained on his website Truth Social, that he is being treated unfairly because Biden wasn't being charged for having classified documents. During his rant, Trump asked why Biden wasn't being charged with the Insurrection Act. Did he say the wrong thing and accidentally spill the beans because he got a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith? Then, Glenn talks about the probe into Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner testified before the grand jury and was asked if Trump knew the election wasn't stolen. Is it possible that Jared lied and could be facing charges now as well?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In today's longform weekend podcast - Glenn gives us his usual legal recap of the week. First story: Dueling briefs. Attorneys for Donald Trump have filed a motion in court to try to postpone his Florida classified documents trial. Following this, Special Counsel Jack Smith replied with his own brief telling Judge Cannon - Trump's filing had no legal basis to postpone the trial indefinitely. Second story: House Blames FBI. During a tense hearing - the House judiciary committee led by congressman Jim Jordan accused FBI Director Chris Wray of being partisan. Are they discrediting the FBI to help Trump in the January 6th investigation? Or are they hoping to interfere with the January 6th probe because they are afraid they will be charged? Then, Fulton County DA Fani Willis has impaneled 2 grand juries in the Georgia election tampering probe. Glenn explains what a grand jury is and what the 5th Amendment says about them. He gives us a master class on how they are selected and how they decide on cases.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.