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Personal attorney and the network knowingly spread misinformation about they want, including falsehoods that they logged illegal ballots for joe biden in the 2020 election. the women say that these lies have led to harassment and death threats. they sued the far right wing website, the gateway pundit, earlier this month for false statements about them. lawsuits against trump allies and media outlets who have helped to push the big lie are making some headway in court. just over a week ago, a jud...

For donald trump in this lawsuit. he lost at the first level. thats what we call the district court. the judge there famously said, presidents are not kings and plaintiff is not president. meaning, executive privilege does not apply here, and even if it did, a former president, like donald trump, doesnt have standing to raise it. now next up were going to have argument in the court of appeals. that argument is going to happen on tuesday, november 30th. if you look at the arguments there and you ...

Argument about the statute, judge gould, about 1182, then it would, i think, affirm the district courts injunction as a whole. its true 1152, nationality based discrimination, to up hold the junction as a whole, to read nonimmigrant visas as well as judge hawkins was illustrating. that is our reading. obviously there could be a question about that. with respect to the standing of refugees, both plaintiffs, we think, have standing. hawaii has standing because in washington versus trump, the court...

The state doesnt have standing, all of these were things raised and decided by washington versus trump. if i could -- >> did the washington panel decide the application of mandel on the merits or simply say that courts have jurisdiction to review such things? >> it resolved the question of whether the mandel standard -- >> you think our panel is bound by that? >> i do. if i could read to you the language from washington versus trump, this is found page 1162. the government cites mandel for the p...

Circuit court to act quickly to issue its decision you can bet that the losing side will want to appeal, which means it could go to the supreme court fairly quickly. >> joining us now to speak about the states argument. bob ferguson is joining us again. i want to get your initial reaction to the argument. >> no surprise, theyre repeating arguments they made before judge robart, that he was not persuaded by. theres nothing in the filing ive seen. i only had a chance to look at it quickly, theres ...

>> so the argument that your state doesnt have standing to even be bringing this to court. what do you say? >> yeah, and that was central to their argument before judge robart. i think your previous guest hit the nail on the head. we make it very clear that were bringing this case on behalf of numerous residents of our state who are adversely impacted by this executive order, and also now, 97 businesses from microsoft to google, and many others filed supporting affidavits, talking about the adve...

They should have gone into court and said please give us an expedited schedule for briefing, so we can argue on the merits, we can show that the state doesnt have standing, that a family in yemen that has a visa may have no right to get a visa. it was a real blunder the ask the ninth circuit judges to get a briefing that they could never get. i think were going to see a divided decision, were going to see a decision that some of the executive order is constitutional, even if its bad policy, but ...

Washington does not have standing on behalf of its citizens or other visa holders or other americans that they have jurisdiction to sue. the speculative effect of this order doesnt rise to that legal level of having a concrete interest in the outcome, and that is standing, the idea behind standing is that you cant just have a theoretical interest and just open the courthouse doors and start suing people. the state of washington has a real very concrete interest, because these citizens, these peo...

I mean, does the administration get to the point where this thing requires the individual mandate to be rolled back? >> well, this is part of the problem. you talk to people on capitol hill, what could republicans do to actually challenge the president? theyre very limited. they could file lawsuits. theres questions of who has standing and who doesnt have standing. i think the biggest argument republicans and conservatives can make is a rhetorical one. you can make the case that the president is...

Not give equal status, or equal protection, to gay couples seeking the same kinds of benefits as straight couples right across the country. and then, not only that, but the proposition 8 ban in california on same-sex marriage, also struck down by the supreme court. essentially saying, you shouldnt have brought it here in the first place, because the complainant really doesnt have standing here. so it can be the law of the land in california, as well. and the president, who has been en route to a...