The same about clarence, can t say the same about alito tim for weeks, we were hearing from republicans that judge juan were shawn here in new york, could not possibly be impartial because he made $35 contribution to democrats in 2020 only 15 of that went to biden. the biden campaign, i guess specifically how can republicans make that claim while not even batting an eye at what s going on in these disclosure forms. that s the problem that i have, is that to be intellectually honest, you have to apply it to both sides. and so if you re going to say that justice merchan, the judge, marsha, and he has to recuse himself. you have to kind of go both ways on it. and that s why i do think that having some type of reasonable regulations in place that would really limit all judges and keep them keep them from any appearance of impropriety and i m not
For it. if the jury thinks you re being authentic, even if what you said was horrendous, they can get there, but you have to come off as authentic. there were times you could feel that resistance. katie, i wanted to talk to you about juan merchan, the judge overseeing this. full disclosure, i now have a man crush on him. i, you know, i just think he is just a spectacular judge. the first thing when i wbt to court the very first time, i was struck by his voice. and we ve all been in court. we ve seen judges and we ve seen judge who is can t control a courtroom. we ve seen judges who control a courtroom by raising their voice and through histrionics and here he controlled the courtroom by being the adult in the room and had such a calm judicial temperament. i just felt like he wasn t going
Probably the most likely outcome, especially when a defendant like former president trump is someone who has no criminal history, no record of convictions violence so all those things mitigate against having serving a harsher or or any sort of term of incarceration. however, here the president is probably made his own situation worse through his words and his actions by exhibiting really no remorse bye bye. exhibit outright contempt for the court, for the judge. judges are allowed to take those factors into consideration as well. so it s really a question as to how judge merchan is going to look at the overall picture and the pre-sentence report is really a foundation for the picture that s the report that gives him all of the basics. hey, graphical data and information about the community support that he s likely to receive contempt for the gag order as
First time, i was struck by his voice and we ve all been in court. we ve seen judges who can t control their courtroom. we ve seen judges who control the courtroom by raising their voice and through histrionics and here he controlled the courtroom by being the adult in the room, and had such a calm judicial temperament, and i just felt like he wasn t going to tolerate he expected everyone to behave properly. i thought it was just remarkable. how do you think he did? this is the first ever trial of a current or former president, enormous pressures, enormous claims of violations of the gag order that he found 10 times, and a lot of novel legal issues to deal with. how do you think he did managing this case? you and i have been inside
Contrary to the fundamental american idea that our nation was founded on. we didn t want certain individuals like king george the third, who we overthrew to be above the law. judges are subject to checks and balances and to federal for law like anybody else no wonder the supreme court is in an ethics crisis the combination of these enormous amounts of luxury travel by justice thomas also involving justice alito, the second largest recipient of gifts over that same period of time and their spouses conduct that raises questions about their ability to sit on cases. they should have recused from those cases. when i i was the ethics tsar in the white house, i wouldn t allow even if the rules permitted it. i wouldn t allow white house staff to take
Not to answer any questions about the offenses of conviction for fear that anything that donald trump might say potentially could jeopardize an appeal. so that s one of the primary reasons why a lawyer is present during the pre-sentence investigation in a case in which the defendant has gone to trial as opposed to a guilty plea proceeding. andrew, how does this pre-sentencing interview and report informed the judges ultimate decision on sentencing? from all parts of the world, not just wolf, the judge s obligated to consider mitigating factors and everything that could impact the outcome of the sentence. and this is a heard this case is a perfect example of that i think in most cases, most cases of convictions new york state, on this offense do not result in prison terms because they could that s certainly
To tolerate and he expected of everyone to behave properly. i thought it was just remarkable. that s sort of my view, don t let that influence you, how do you think he did? this is a first ever trial of a current or former president, enormous pressures, enormous claims of violations of the gag order that he found ten times and a lot of novel legal issues to deal with, how do you think he did managing this case? we ve been inside courtrooms in front of judges on very high stakes cases. the one thing that we know is the person who is gate keeping everything is the judge, right? and to laura s point that she made earlier, the jury looks to the judge, sometimes as a paternal figure or a maternal figure or somebody who s going to guide us through this process, which can be confusing. it can be maize-like for some people. the thing is donald trump has
Wife s connection to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. today, he submitted a revised disclosure filing revealing additional luxury travel to indonesia and to bohemian grove secret of vip retreating the california woods, all paid for by conservative billionaire friend harlan crow, reporting from propel boc propublica first revealed some of the gifts that he got in all of this coming on the heels of report from a watchdog group, fix the court identifying justice thomas as by far the biggest gift recipient on the court to the tune of more than $4 million worth over the last 20 years joining us, his former obama white house ethics are norm eisen and former federal judge nancy gardner. so judge gardner, you ve been critical of justice thomas. what do you make of him just now officially disclosing those trips page before by harlan crow does that make the situation and needs it s too little? well, it makes it somewhat better, but it s still too little too late. i mean, here here, i have to pause. federal judges have a
Some of these court cases are going to come. and obviously now it s clear there s not gonna be any other court case. no other court cases. and i think donald trump is one of the luckiest man alive. i mean, he cuts such a luck keep break of all of the cases of all four of the cases. this was the offense that seemed the most minor this is the one that it is easiest for his allies and enablers to argue, didn t need to be prosecuted. and so i mean, i wrote this right after the verdict. i don t think these 34 felony counts are going to change much, and i m also not locked them into your world. for sure it is the lucky break. he has been afforded due process as any credible as much as any criminal defendant ever has and has used that very effectively through his counsel and had judges said some luck with judges, but frame for me, thank you so much. appreciate it. just ahead. and fda advisory committee voted overwhelmingly against the use of a drug ecstasy mdma to treat post-traumatic stress will tell you why and explore how some researchers are hoping psychedelic drugs might help improve mental health when
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