things. and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. oh, gosh. an audio recording undercuts trump s pathetic defense in the classified documents case as the doj reportedly barrels forward on its investigation of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. also tonight, a supreme court victory for voters and democracy. in a defeat for republicans who wanted to strip state courts of any role in running federal elections and give politicians the final say. plus, ron desantis admits he wants to rewrite the constitution so that right-wing politicians can decide whether people born in this country can legally be considered u.s. citizens. we begin tonight with a frequent and losing strategy by the twice impeached, twice indicted former president. whenever he finds himself stuck in a perilous legal mess of his own making, he goes full orwell and just tells the world don t believe your lying eyes. stick with us, don t
hear this case and they were afraid and wanted to get it out of the court. and those arguments were so wrong, so misguided, and they stand as a really powerful lesson that if you carefully study and take seriously the united states supreme court decisions, litigants can win cases that stand up for our democracy, even in this court. so this court is the thing that i do want to sort of talk about. it was chief justice john roberts, it was sotomayor, kagan, kavanaugh, coney barrett, and ketanji brown jackson. dissents were clarence thomas, gorsuch, and alito. two of those don t surprise me at all, but the other thing that strikes me is it feels like the year 2000 election and bush v. gore are like a monster that you can t kill in one of these horror movies. it keeps coming back. john eastman arguing that 20 years apart that this insane theory is what should rule our
failure of the law to hold bad apple cops accountable. let s go to the aj owens case. the state attorney issued this explanation for why they charged manslaughter and not second-degree murder, which is why the family wanted. in order to approve the climate secretary in the murder the state must prove depraved mind of the killer at the time of the killing. evidence of ill will, spite, or ill intended time of the killing. as deplorable as the actions were in the, case there is insufficient evidence to prove the specific and required element of secondary murder. but hang on a second, witnesses said, and she admitted, the shooter admitted she called the woman s children, aj owens children, the n-word and other racial epithets. she admitted screaming racial epithets. make it make sense of this is not second degree murder. she shot through a door with a nine year old standing on the other side. she didn t even get charged
you by article 2 section 1 is a power, it knows no other appeal. we cannot view those congressional statutes as altering your plenary power you have directly by the constitution of the united states. eastman advocated a fringe legal theory, the independent state legislature theory, which claims that state legislatures have broad, unchecked authority to set election rules under the constitution s elections clause. he later pushed the theory in the lead-up of january 6th. trying to get slates of fake electors submitted in key states to hand the 2020 election to donald trump. but today, the supreme court rejected taking american democracy into the abyss in a 6-3 ruling, the court rejected the independent state legislature theory in moore v. harper, a case about north carolina s congressional map. chief justice john roberts wrote for the majority, quote, the
things. and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. oh, gosh. an audio recording undercuts trump s pathetic defense in the classified documents case as the doj reportedly barrels forward on its investigation of his attempt to overturn the 2020 election. also tonight, a supreme court victory for voters and democracy. in a defeat for republicans who wanted to strip state courts of any role in running federal elections and give politicians the final say. plus, ron desantis admits he wants to rewrite the constitution so that right-wing politicians can decide whether people born in this country can legally be considered u.s. citizens. we begin tonight with a frequent and losing strategy by the twice impeached, twice indicted former president. whenever he finds himself stuck in a perilous legal mess of his own making, he goes full orwell and just tells the world don t