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I think that is right. i dont think this rises to the level of contempt. chancellors has asked the court to the lawyers to shower show caused. notice it would ask smith to defend himself against charges of contempt. the judge might say the motions concert on the record and the trump camp is no obligation to respond, or she might ask the court to take these off of the record and give smith leave to file when jurisdiction returns to her. smith is trying to keep trump from running the clock. i assu...

Jurisdiction to do anything else while the immunity appeal is ongoing. and frankly this a good argument the judge does lacked that jurisdiction and that smith should not have filed these motions while that appeal was ongoing. >> so what happens then? lets say the judge agrees with him. does he just sort of put it on hold and bring it up when the trial is back in motion? >> yeah. i think that is right. i dont think this rises to the level of contempt. chancellors has asked the court to the lawyer...

Defendant donald trump asked judge tanya chutkan to hold special prosecutor jack smith in contempt of court for legal filings that the prosecutors have entered in the court docket after judge chutkan stopped all proceedings in the case while awaiting the outcome in the appeals court, which will issue issue an expedited decision at some point after next tuesdays oral arguments in donald trumps appeal. leading off our discussion, andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the...

Mob in here gassing or beer spraying, and shoving, and punching, and flag slamming police officers. a group of police officers, by the way, who were protecting lawmakers who were running for their lives. >> and risking their own. barb, i need you to explain this before we go, because my legal expertise does not go on my super fandom would go beyond law and order svu and this one boggled my mind. donald trumps lawyers are now saying that they want special counsel jack smith held in contempt in th...

Donald trump, you know that is not going to deter him. this week has been filled witha him fighting back in the courts. first, he appealed mainessupr decision to kick him off the ballot. then he asked the supreme court to look at colorados ruling and they did the same. and today, hes going for a federal judge to hold a special counsel jack smith in contempt hid m alleging he repeatedly violated a stay order and trumps 2020 electionh investigation.ist trumps attorney said smith is converting the ...

Slavery-rooted institution in the united states. they want back the pre-20th century. >> and contempt for black excellence while were at it, joy. i mean the bottom line is these are people who do not think that black people and especially black women, could have possibly earned any of the accomplishments that they have gotten without affirmative action and do not deserve to be in the places and spaces that they are pioneering institutions across the country. dr. gay was correct that this is not ...

The special counsel has continued to file motions in the case while it remains paused.

Affairs, and having his sons nominally be in charge. i think all of us know that he never really let go of his business interests while he was president, so these are things that just continue to add to the reasons why hes unfit to be president of the united states again. the fact is that this -- putting himself before the people of the country is an ongoing pattern in this and many other instances. so whether it compromised him or not, i dont know. i wasnt in the room when he was making decisio...

Filed today asking a judge to hold smith in contempt for violating what is that pause i mentioned on the case. virtually no justice department vets think this motion is valid or going anywhere. but trumps lawyers have a right to file losing motions. this one baselessly accuses smith of practicing partisan-driven misconduct, but doesnt have any new hard evidence about how smith who prosecuted one-time democratic candidate john edwards and now republican trump is somehow picking targets by party. ...

The clinton foundation in 2016 due to what he viewed as negligible evidence, despite multiple suspicious activity reports related to hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign transactions. thats according to fox digital reporting. special counsel jack smiths office declined to comment on this story. lawyers for formerly president donald trump are pressing to have special counsel jack smiths team held in contempt saying the prosecutors had taken steps to advance the 2020 election interference c...