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Judge Merchan Modifies Trump's New York Gag Order
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 28, 2024 10:00 - 15 minutesJudge Jaun Merchan modified the gag order he had placed on Donald Trump. The gag order no longer prohibits Trump from talking about witnesses and jurors in his case. However, it remains in effect to protect court staff, prosecutors and their staff, and their respective family members. N...
Judge Aileen Cannon Insists on Litigating Frivolous Motions, Delaying Trump's Trial
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 27, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutesJudge Aileen Cannon continues to give defendant Donald Trump - the very person who gave her her lifetime appointment as a federal judge - the delay he so covets. She continues to litigate frivolous motions that are forever being filed by Trump's attorneys, in an apparent attempt to dela...
Trump says Comedian Joan Rivers Voted for Him in 2016: Problem is She Died in 2014
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 26, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesDuring an interview with Donald Trump for his biography called "Apprentice in Wonderland", he stated that comedian Joan Rivers voted for him in 2016, because "that's what she said". The problem is, Ms. Rivers passed away in 2014. Donald Trump is a liar, a conman, a grifter, a rapist, an...
Jack Smith Doubles-Down on Trump Gag Order Request
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 25, 2024 10:17 - 13 minutesSpecial Counsel Jack Smith has filed another motion imploring Judge Aileen Cannon to modify Donald Trump's conditions of release to impose a gag order to protect law enforcement agents from Trump's continued lies and violence-inducing rhetoric. Glenn reviews the new court filing and dis...
Judge Cannon Disregards Advice from Other Federal Judges NOT to Preside Over Trump's Florida Case
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 24, 2024 23:50 - 10 minutesTrump-appointed Judge Aileen Canon held an all-day hearing on a largely frivolous issue raised by Donald Trump's attorneys. At the end of the hearing, instead of ruling on the motion, Judge Cannon ordered supplemental briefs to be filed, injecting further unnecessary delay into the case...
Trump Lawyers Epshteyn and Ellis Plead Not Guilty in Arizona Fake Elector Case
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 21, 2024 10:00 - 16 minutesDonald Trump's lawyers keep getting indicted. Two of his former lawyers, Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis just pleaded not guilty to nine felony charges in Arizona state court involving, in substance, crimes they are alleged to have committed to try to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 pre...
New York High Court REJECTS Trump's Attack on Gag Order
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 20, 2024 17:03 - 11 minutesEvery single judge (trial court judges, appellate court judges, state court judges, and federal court judges) who has ruled on the various gag orders placed on defendant Donald Trump, has ruled that the orders were appropriate, lawful, and constitutional. Indeed, New York's highest co...
Convicted Felon Donald Trump is Not Fit to Lead Our Troops as Commander in Chief
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 19, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutesAs a recent USA Today article makes clear: "As a convicted felon, Trump isn't fit to lead America's military as Commander in Chief". Convicted felons are generally not permitted to serve in the armed forces of the United States. It would be an absurdity, not to mention dangerous to the ...
Trump AGAIN Signals He Won't Accept an Election Loss
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 18, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesHere we go again. We've seen this exact nightmare movie before: Donald Trump signaling that he won't accept an election loss and refusing to rule out violence to get whatever he wants. It's like democracy is sitting there - stuck on the tracks and Trump is the dangerous, out-of-control ...
Trump Returns to the Scene of the Crime: the US Capitol
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 17, 2024 10:00 - 9 minutesIt defies comprehension that the person who incited an attack on the United States Capitol building and everyone who was in it on January 6, 2021, performing their constitutional duty of certifying the results of a presidential election, would have the temerity to return to the scene of...
Hunter Biden's Conviction Shatters Trump's Persecution Claim
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 14, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutesDonald Trump is claiming that the Department of Justice is being weaponized against Republicans. Glenn says the trial and guilty verdict of Hunter Biden proves otherwise. Note the recent CNN headline: "Hunter Biden conviction shatters Trump's persecution narrative." The way the Republic...
Reaction to Hunter Biden's Conviction vs. Trump's Conviction
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 13, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutesLast week, Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony crimes that he committed to try to gain unfair advantage in a presidential election. Throughout the pre-trial proceedings and the trial itself, Trump and his lackeys in Congress endlessly yammered about the trial being a witch hunt. Tru...
Trump Meets with New York Probation Officer
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 12, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutesDonald Trump sat for an interview with a New York probation officer who will prepare a pre-sentencing report to be used by Judge Juan Merchan in connection with Trump's sentencing. However, if we care about preserving free and fair American elections and deterring others from committin...
Trump Vows Revenge Against His Enemies
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 11, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesThe contrast between Donald Trump and President Joe Biden as far as the rule-of-law could not be more stark. As a HuffPost headline announces, "Trump Says Revenge 'Can Be Justified' In Latest Threat To Political Enemies." Contrary to Trump, President Biden has chosen the rule of law by ...
Federal Judge Orders Steve Bannon to Report to Prison to Serve his Sentence
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 10, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesAccountability has finally come for Steve Bannon for his two contempt of Congress convictions. A jury convicted Bannon nearly two years ago, but Trump-appointed Judge Carl Nichols allowed Bannon to remain free pending appeal, contrary to the presumption in the law that a sentence is to ...
Reps Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan Have Decided Their Full-Time Job is to Obstruct Justice for Trump
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 06, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesRepresentatives Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan are trying to convince the American people that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Republicans. They ignore the reality that, at this very moment, the DOJ is prosecuting Senator Bob Menendez, a Democrat, they just indicted R...
By Refusing to Take Responsibility for His Crimes, Donald Trump May Pave His Own Way to Prison
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 06, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesOn July 11th, Judge Juan Merchan will sentence Donald Trump on his 34 felony convictions. Just as is true in all criminal sentencing hearings, Judge Merchan will base his sentence in part, on whether Trump will take responsibility for his crimes. Indeed, after a conviction, accepting re...
What Does it Say that a "Truth Social" Juror Convicted Donald Trump on All 34 Counts?
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 05, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesDuring jury selection in Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York, some on the right, like Rep. Matt Gaetz, were celebrating - gloating even - when they learned that a gentleman designated "juror # 2" told the judge during jury selection that he gets his news from Truth Social. Matt Ga...
The Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act: Help for Families Who Lost a Loved One to Violent Crime
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 04, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesWe have nearly 300,000 unsolved murders in the United States. That's 300,000 families who sit by the phone waiting for a call to come from a detective saying, "we've got a break in your loved one's case." These calls almost never come. When I retired from the Department of Justice, aft...
Trump Again Inspires His Supporters to Violence
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - June 03, 2024 19:53 - 6 minutesIn the aftermath of Trump's criminal conviction, his supporters are endangering the judge, the prosecutor and the jurors. As NBC News reported, " Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction." It's time to put a stop to Trump's dangerous, violence-in...
Trump Guilty of 34 Felonies: Welcome Accountability!
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 31, 2024 16:24 - 15 minutesAfter a trial that lasted several weeks, a New York jury convicted Donald Trump in less than two days of deliberations. Some might say they convicted him in a New York minute. Glenn reviews the jury's guilty verdicts and discusses the upcoming sentencing and the likelihood of Judge Juan...
Judge Aileen Cannon Shows Her Bias
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 30, 2024 10:00 - 20 minutesIn further proof that Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon is hopelessly biased in favor of Donald Trump, Special Counsel Jack filed a motion asking Cannon to prohibit Trump from making false, violence-inducing statements that endanger FBI agents. But rather than address the obvious viol...
Jack Smith Seeks 4th Gag Order for Trump's Dangerous, Violence-Inducing Lies About FBI Agents
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 29, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesDonald Trump is again telling dangerous, incendiary, violence-inducing lies. This time, his lies are about the FBI agents who executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. In a new court filing in Trump's federal prosecution in Florida, Special Counsel Jack Smith asks Trump-appointed Judg...
Donald Trump's Bronx Hate Rally Demonizes Immigrants, the Homeless, and Others
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 28, 2024 10:00 - 10 minutesIt's difficult to understand how a defendant on pre-trial release in four criminal cases is still allowed to endanger the community by holding hate rallies that inspire violence. Glenn discusses the history of Trump's dangerous and reckless rhetoric - from inspiring a significant rise ...
Judge Aileen Cannon Grinds Trump's Classified Documents/Obstruction/Espionage Case to a Halt
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 27, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutesTrump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon should not be presiding over Trump's federal prosecution in Florida. She has brought the case to a screeching halt by declining to resolve motions in a timely manner and by refusing to even set a trial date. Judge Cannon is NOT an honest broker of the...
Trump Promises to Testify But Fails to Defends Himself in New York Criminal Trial
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 24, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutesDonald Trump repeatedly and incessantly told the American people he would absolutely testify in his defense at his criminal trial in New York. But, when he had the opportunity to take the stand and tell his side of the story - Trump punked out. Glenn discusses a defendant's right to te...
Here's How a Defense Witness Blew Up Donald Trump's Case
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 23, 2024 10:00 - 19 minutesAs the only witness of consequence, Donald Trump's lawyers called Robert Costello to testify in Trump's defense. And if it wasn't bad enough that Judge Juan Merchan had to clear the courtroom for Costello's "contemptuous" behavior, the cross-examination of Costello (including with his o...
NY Trump Trial Winds Down as Michael Cohen's Testimony Concludes
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 22, 2024 10:00 - 11 minutesAfter more than 15 hours on the witness stand, Michael Cohen's testimony concluded. Although the defense attorney scored a couple points, Michael Cohen's testimony was consistent, corroborated and credible. Interestingly, Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, didn't even question Cohen about t...
Justice Alito's Upside-Down American Flag Aligns Him with Trump's Insurrection
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 21, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesOn January 6th, 2021, Trump incited an insurrection, and as a result, he is pending federal prosecution for his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump's angry mob showed their determination to "stop the steal" on January 6th by carrying upside-down Amer...
Michael Cohen Finishes on Cross-Examination at Trump Trial
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner - May 20, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutesAfter about 14 hours of testimony, Donald Trump's former lawyer, fixer, and criminal associate Michael Cohen is done on cross-examination. The defense scored some points on cross but nothing that significantly undermines the mountain of corroborating evidence that prosecutors introduced...
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