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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

donald trump's helper in a new lawsuit filed tonight to overturn the decision by main secretary of state shana bellow bellows to bar trump the first attorney in maine's history to file a lawsuit to get the name of former president of a former president to the knighted states -- the trump legal filing says, quote, the secretary had no statutory authority to consider the challenges raised under section three of the 14th amendment. section three of the 14th amendment, as many of you know by now, says any officer the government that he's engaged in insurrection is disqualified from holding office again.

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and i want to adopt his view here. it's absolutely a stone cold loser. >> on that absolute confidence of joyce fans and harry litman i want to thank you both very much for starting our conversations tonight. very much appreciated. coming up, tonight donald trump's lawyers went to court in maine to try to get his name on the presidential ballot there after the secretary of state relied on the 14th amendment to bar donald trump from the ballot in maine. harvard law professor laurence tribe joins us next. tribe joins us next. tribe joins us next. >>

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pending an appeal to the superior court of maine, recognizing that she doesn't have unilateral authority to make this decision. >> donald trump's new main lawyer is leaning on the statutes in maine, saying that those statutes only give the secretary of state authority to do things like make sure he has enough signatures to be on the ballot, requires thousands of signatures, make sure his address is correct, kind of clerical things like that in his application to be on the ballot. and then the trump lawyer says, the secretary had no statutory authority to consider the challenges raised under section three of the 14th amendment. >> basically trying to treat the disqualification clause of section three, which is really central to the preservation of democracy from those who would

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page eight of donald trump's maine lawsuit filed tonight says president trump did not engaged in insurrection. and it says section three of the 14th amendment buyers persons otherwise subjected from holding specified offices, not from running for them. or from being elected to them. the simple nine-page lawsuit asks the court require the secretary to immediately place president trump on the republican presidential primary ballot. secretary of state bellows appeared on this program on thursday, shortly after issuing her 34-page decision that donald trump could not appear on the main ballot because he engaged in insurrection. >> mr. trump was aware of a

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for example, who have been criminally prosecuted before being impeached. don trump's lawyers seem to know that they will probably lose that claim of immunity with appeals court and so they have added another layer to their claim of immunity from criminal prosecution for donald trump. quote, nor may a president face criminal prosecution based on conduct for which he was acquitted by the u.s. senate. and that claim, of course, applies only to donald trump, who is the only president ever to face criminal prosecution after being acquitted on similar charges in an impeachment trial in the senate. of course trump lawyers are not quoting the constitution when they make that claim. they are simply inventing a

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is the issue before us. it is appeal, in maine, and the appeal he's filing from colorado, and in the claim of being above the law that he is making when he claims immunity. in fact in those immunity cases he makes the remarkable argument that he's more like a king then he is an officer of the united states. some of his defenders say it's not an officer under the united states, he is the government of the united states. i am the state. that is not the way the government works that most of us would feel safe living in. >> harvard law professor laurence tribe, thank you very much, as always, for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> and, from one distinguished professor to another, coming up, donald trump might have to go

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america versus donald j trump in which donald trump is charged with the first defense contraband offered to those crimes is that he is immune from criminal prosecution because he was president of the united states. if that argument holds, van all four current criminal prosecutions of donald trump will collapse. the appeals court has set a schedule for non trump's appeal of trial judge tanya chutkan's ruling that there is no form of immunity that protects a president from criminal prosecution after he has left office. today the appeals court issued a notice to dame trump's lawyers and special prosecutor jack smith and the lawyers for each side should be prepared for questions next week in oral argument by the judges about

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on this program are just getting warmed up when we have to go to a commercial. such are the perils of commercial television of course. that happened thursday night we'll historian david blight was explaining to us the history of the 14th amendment and how it has become the legal basis for banning donald trump from the presidential ballot in some states. >> the text is clear here. make no mistake. there are many constitutional lawyers have argued this. it's the politics that of course is not clear. and we could end up, and i've read the decision by the secretary of state in maine, on at least two of the lawsuits, the third one didn't make much sense, she is dead light dead right on the text of the law. and another thing people should

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secretary of state shenna bellows's courageous decision to keep trump off the ballot. mr. tribe, i want to go to the new information we have tonight in donald trump's legal filing in maine. 0.1 is he did not engage in insurrection. those words are in quotation marks, engage, an insurrection, leaning heavily on whatever the legal definition of engaged an insurrection turns out to be in this case. >> that's exactly what we would expect. there's nothing new about that. shenna bellows held a hearing in which she consider all the legal materials relevant and all the factual evidence including the evidence developed on january 6th congressional hearings in which donald trump was invited to appear.

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he was given ample opportunity to present his side of the narrative in this administrative hearing. he didn't succeed. his claim that he was denied a fair process is based on nothing in the law. he's absolutely confusing an administrative hearing of the kind that shenna bellows properly held under the law of the state of maine with a criminal trial or with a civil trial in which damages might be assessed or the property or liberty of the defendant might be at stake. hear what is at stake is whether donald trump disqualified himself. unlike many other possible disqualifications like age or birth in the united states,

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