its unanimous ruling, then describes trump s efforts to resist providing materials to this investigation. the ruling describes the lawsuit, for example, that he brought in october to try to block the investigation from obtaining his records. the court describes his resounding loss in the lower court in that case. but this is important. it could become materially important in days ahead. the court in this ruling tonight is quite blunt about the legitimacy of the january 6th investigation. and they re quite blunt about trump s failure to state any legal justification for him ducking their questions and their demands. quote, the very essence of the article one power, meaning the article one power in the constitution, the part that defines the roles of congress, the very essence of art kun one power is very legislating, and so there would seem to be few if any more impair active interests squarely within congress s
he sued to when the judge ruled against him. when the judge ruled against him, definitively, he filed an appeal up to the circuit court. that circuit court, the appeals court also decided they would take it on an expedited basis. they heard the case on november 30th. they just ruled tonight, december 9th. nine days after they heard the arguments in the case. this is not the pace at which stuff usually gets through the federal court system. but now, trump s last hope, now that he s lost both at the district court and at the circuit court. his last hope is to appeal to the united states supreme court. and the court has given him 14 days to decide whether or not he s going to do that. if he doesn t appeal to the supreme court in time, trump s white house documents and records will get handed over to the january 6th investigators. 14 days from now would be when tonight s ruling would go into effect barring an appeal to the u.s. supreme court, for the
it s 110 different countries from around the world meeting in this summit for democracy to strategize against the global rising threat of authoritarianism. president biden himself today gave a speech about strengthening democracies worldwide. he did also point the finger, what s failing in american democracy right now here at home. he made a case once again for the urgent need to pass voting rights legislation here in the u.s. senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema from his own parent apparently do not share the president s concerns along those lines. those two are standing in the way of that legislation getting through the u.s. senate. but president biden did also overtly affirm, reaffirm the u.s. commitment to fighting authoritarianism abroad and to helping other countries stand up for the right to dissent and for a free press and the right to vote. two countries whose ears might have been burning at that point
johnny, you re gonna be working with the number one choreographer in redshore city. that is rubbish. terribly poor. really bad. he s freaking me out. tippy toes, tippy toes, i don t see your tippy toes. oh come on he s having a laugh. tonight a federal appeals court issued a blistering unanimous ruling rejecting president trump s efforts to avoid turning over his white house documents and records to the january 6th investigation. this is the second straight court ruling on this matter that trump has lost. he lost definitively in an excoriating ruling from the federal district court judge who first got the case. he appealed that to the appeals court. this was three judges on that appeals court that just unanimously ruled against him again. in response to that unanimous ruling tonight, we ve got this just in from the chair and vice chair of the january 6th investigation. this is from the chair, bennie
president trump filed suit saying i don t want to hand over those documents in mid-october. the first ruling happened before two weeks was up in november. he filed an appeal that was heard before the end of november, and nine days after it was heard, we have this definitive unanimous ruling of the appeals court against him again. i believe as an observer that that s really fast. is that true? absolutely true, rachel. this is lightning pace. this is the usain bolt of court calendars. ordinarily an appellate case like this could take up to a year by the time all the briefing is held, all the oral arguments are done, and the court considers it and issues an opinion. and like the supreme court, it s only three judges, not nine justices, but, still, they exchange opinions and go back and forth, and it can take many, many months if not a year for a case like this to come out. and for it to happen in a matter