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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20211210 03:18:00

expedited basis. otherwise, it s even worse than in watergate because the congress will not be the congress anymore. and therefore will be starting all over again and possibly depending on the outcome of the election, it may not be a congress that wants to know the truth. and americans want to know the truth here. they want the facts. jill, this is very fast jurisprudence for the 21st century, but my memory as a kid when you were working on watergate is that you people got the courts to move even faster than this. we did and there s no reason why the courts can t do the same. the subpoena that went to the supreme court was issued in april for 64 white house tapes. it was decided after argument in the supreme court in july. it was virtually just three

Transcripts for MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes 20191110 01:54:00

are we going to end up with some of this in front of the supreme court? it seems like we don t get out of this year without a court decision on some of the scope of these issues. yeah. so this case we re talking about involving the manhattan d.a. s office, you re right. the trump administration has said we are going to ask the supreme court to take this case. the supreme court could say no. it s a really pretty good appellate court decision. pretty basic. and that could keep it out of the courts at least for now. but there are other cases bubbling up too. another case about congress trying to get the tax returns from trump. that s in the d.c. courts in washington. and that case also looks bound for the supreme court. so it does seem likely that we re going to hear from the court in at least one of these matters. the big fear here, right now the setup that everyone s sort of been using is you have egot three branches of government and article one congress, article two the white hous

Transcripts for MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes 20191109 01:54:00

and that could keep it out of the courts at least for now, but there are other cases bubbling up, too, another case about congress trying to get the tax returns from trump. that s in the d.c. courts in washington and that case also looks bound for the supreme court. it does seem likely we re going to hear from the court in at least one of these matters. right now the setup everyone s sort of been using is you ve got three branches of government and article 3 is the referee who comes in and says who s right. a constitutional crisis is when no one can say who s right. or when the court says do this, and the executive says we re not going to. like how close are we to that moment. we haven t gotten to that moment yet because the courts haven t ordered the president to do something he hasn t complied with. and the other thing important to understand about all this subpoena investigation talk, congress has its own powers. congress could issue its own

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