of the msnbc podcast prosecuting donald trump. and probably quite is with us. she's a former u.s. attorney and law professor at the university of michigan law school. she's also co-host of the podcast hashtag sisters in law. they are both msnbc legal analysts. andrew weissmann, when i grabbed the federal definite definition of sex throughout the the fact and apply it to what i heard the speaker of the house say, one just has to wonder how far his words are from potential criminal prosecution here. >> i unfortunately have to say that you have to add his statements of conduct to a lot of other people in congress. on january six. and after that who enabled what donald trump did in here you're talking about something that they all live through and on january six as where the capital police and capitol police you. think he would have some respect as well as some sense of obligation and he would honor his oath of on us office in terms of doing the right thing. in this case there's actually no harm because, in addition to the statements he made, it is also abundantly clear that the government already has those tapes. so he is demon

live now to frank bowman, distinguished professor emeritus at the university of missouri school of lawhave it on the programme. on a you are listening into all of that. so, what are your thoughts on this move in colorado, what will happen next?— happen next? frankly, to observe _ happen next? frankly, to observe is _ happen next? frankly, to observe is that _ happen next? frankly, to observe is that in - happen next? frankly, to observe is that in this - happen next? frankly, to i observe is that in this case, as you've already heard it, the essence of the case was an effort of the amendment of the constitution to disqualify mr trump on the ground that he engaged in insurrection. and critical to note here is that first of all, a trialjudge and then, the majority of the colorado supreme court found that in fact, he had, engaged in insurrection, he attempted to forcefully overthrow the united states government. that's quite remarkable. and we are over, this was a close decision by the supreme court, it was a decision but even the three dissenters did not disagree with the basic point. wh

university of multimedia before doing her ph. d, work in food technology at the university of law and she then worked as a research assistant at that same university in 1990 yes mean joined the world health organization in geneva, where she became a scientific expert and director of food security and food aid. beginning in the year 2000, she served as corporate food safety manager and assistant vice president, responsible for food safety at the food giant nestle. her qualifications were impeccable in 2003, following a complaint from parents. yes, mean, proposed that the company withdraw from the market, baby biscuits being manufactured by nestle and beginning in 2006, she called for an audit on the toxicity of baby products in 2009, a large scale food poisoning, incident effect, and 300000 babies in china, 13 of whom died. this was after eating nestle, baby biscuits, the director of the offending group at nestle was promoted and became yes means manager. he took away her responsibilities and relegated, heard of menial tasks, and in 2010, she was fired. in march, 2011, she filed a complaint against nestle with a local court in switz

william is a professor of law and faculty director of the constitutional law institute at the university of chicago law school. we also have with us michael mcconnell, the richard and francis mallory professor and director of the constitutional law center at stanford, as well as senior fellow at the hoover institution. from 2002 to 2009 he served on the circuit. >> will was actually my clerk. everything he learned he learned from me. [laughter] >> no doubt. >> can we have the first slide with the text? next slide. thanks. our topic is section three of the 14th amendment which says no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or any state who have taken an oath as an officer of any state legislature, or executive officer of any state, to support the constitution shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. but congress may vote by two thirds to remove such disability. the question is what it means for us today. there are two important topics. o

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mark podvia is a member of the emeritus faculty of the dickinson of law of the pennsylvania state university city, where he taught legal research, served as the associate law library and archivist 25 years following his retirement from penn state dickinson. mark served the library co-director at the west virginia university college of law. he's now retired from wvu and, spends his time enjoying his cats, writing and visiting, covered bridges. he is a graduate of city college, penn state university, clarion university and the dickinson school of law. mark has published more than 50 articles and reviews in various law reviews and journals, including the historical society. he is coauthor of a citizens guide to a modern constitutional convention published by the pennsylvania constitutional convention commission and is author of the strange of dr. paul shuba shuba. mark is a member of the american association of law libraries and the bar of the supreme court of pennsylvania. he's a past chair of the american association of law libraries legal history, rare book specialist interests section. he r

mark podvia is a member of the emeritus faculty of the dickinson of law of the pennsylvania state university city, where he taught legal research, served as the associate law library and archivist 25 years following his retirement from penn state dickinson. mark served the library co-director at the west virginia university college of law. he's now retired from wvu and, spends his time enjoying his cats, writing and visiting, covered bridges. he is a graduate of city college, penn state university, clarion university and the dickinson school of law. mark has published more than 50 articles and reviews in various law reviews and journals, including the historical society. he is coauthor of a citizens guide to a modern constitutional convention published by the pennsylvania constitutional convention commission and is author of the strange of dr. paul shuba shuba. mark is a member of the american association of law libraries and the bar of the supreme court of pennsylvania. he's a past chair of the american association of law libraries legal history, rare book specialist interests section. he r

of patients. >> reporter: it's already changed larae morning's life the 29-year-ol first year law school student at american university's college of law was 1 of 46 patients involve in the clinical trial. diagnosed at birth with sickle cell, doctors told her mother she might not live beyond 11 for most of her life she says she suffered severe pain. >> it's consistent it's sharp, and it's crippling. >> and that could be where, for example, in your body? >> i've had it in my knees, my arm, anywhere there is a joint. >> reporter: now larae runs and works out in the gym, things she always wanted to do but never could do before >> it's changed your life. >> it's changed, yeah. >> you said it's given you life. >> it's given me life, yeah. >> reporter: experts argue, the cost puts it out of reach for many families. the price tag is $2.2 million, but it's likely insurance will cover at least some of it. >> and, rehema, cure, what a powerful word we're talking about. is this a one-time treatment or a series of treatments? >> lester, technically it is a one-time procedure, but the entire process is arduous, lasting several months

of michigan law school and msnbc contributor joyce vance. she's a professor at the university of alabama school of law. barb and joyce are a former university -- and co-host of the hashtag sister in law podcast. welcome to get both. joyce, the colorado plaintiffs are asking the supreme court to decide on trump's eligibility by february 11th, but they propellers or sent out. how soon arthur justice likely to take up this issue? >> you know, it's a great question. because we know that the supreme court can act very quickly when it motivated to do so. that's the real question here. will the justices believe it's urgent to ask? if so, they're more than capable of rendering a timely decision. >> barb, this week, the highest court and michigan declined to hear a 14th amendment case against trump. why do you think the outcome was different in your home state? >> it's very much a function of state law, juliÁn. every state has a slightly different procedural posture when it comes to administering elections. so although the constitution controls the substance and the qualifications, it

george washington cool international affairs and by students at harvard law school. university of virginia and llm international law at georgetown university law center university of new york in albany. last but not least, a retired reserve officer with reward for military service. with that, i'm looking forward to your current event discussions, thank you for your valuable time. >> hello and good afternoon. thank you for my great introduction. it is a pleasure to be here today. this is always been at the forefront of the security issues and it is fitting to be here to have this conversation and not only in our country but as you heard from olga world remains in a frivolous poem. there is no question we are facing monumental shifts in politics, safety and security whether it posturing alongside this in a buildup of russia's continued work in ukraine and dangerous rhetoric, the deep dark age and stabilizing actions and issues of terrorism and violence. increased diplomacy, enhance the ability and presenting routes to peace and prosperity is increasingly important. prosperity includ

this research that was conducted by two professors in the united states, one from the new york university of law and the other from columbia and they are looking into it. their research concludes that people appear to have had advance knowledge or were just lucky. they got handed a significant spike in shortselling and the principal is really company etf in the days leading up to the october 7th massacre. israeli invaders are looking into it and have not come to any conclusions and it does come as the war continues to rage on israel and inside gaza. some video of the tunnel network that israelis according to the wall street journal are considering destroying by using the seawater from mediterranean sea, this report coming out today indicating israeli forces set up a number of pumps and they are debating whether or not to fill the tunnels in the northern part of gaza with water to destroy them. there are concerns this could contaminate freshwater for 2 million palestinian citizens that reside inside the gaza strip but also as the israeli defense forces say they rated general security headquarters

these just a small part of the israeli crimes in the gaza streep, all in violation of international law. here, university of esan in iran, prominent iranian international law scholars believe that the international criminal court or icc has the jurisdiction to interfere in the ongoing genocide in gaza and convict the israeli regime for its atrocities against palestinians in this. they have conducted a simulation court providing concrete evidence for the regime's crimes, action which was prayed and welcomed by the iranian minister of justice and representative of iran's religious minorities. the game of the simulation was to say that, according to international law, the actions of the zin regime deserve condemnation, and we must pursue this cause. palestine is member of the icc. the most important authority that can file a lawsuit and court is the united nations security council. of course we know that... that the us and the uk do not allow such a thing, not allow the war to stop, the court is jurisdiction over this matter, those carrying out the simulation say that iran and other muslim states can file a

genocide. shame donkey is deputy director of the iris center for human rights in the school of law at the university of go away. what evidence is south africa putting forth south africa has been very detailed submission to the international court of justice in which it goes through the various elements of the crime of genocide. and this is a highly significant development in the context of gaza. state states don't tend to take these in just a cases, but regularly received one more recently in the context of can be a versus b, m r. and i think it reflects the seriousness of the situation in gas or what it is, the destruction displacement of the getting the civilians, including many children on a scale without pace, as many of the world's recent done. indeed ongoing conflicts. us highlighted severe risks of starvation on the spreading of disease as a result of the conditions imposed upon gather by israel. so what are the chances of this actually stopping the wall? so the idea of taking this particular case from start about, so that's a good perspective. it seems as to try and put an end to the actions

. >> hello recent graduate of howard university school of law. i have a question for the record. the shelby county case, the supreme court struck it down because they said we weren't keeping with the recent patterns of discrimination is there a plan with some type of mechanism with recent patterns which alabama clearly has. >> and congresswoman is going to take this. if you could speak to the congresswoman specifically how they said the voting rights act. reauthorization had addressed it congresswoman. >> we are working hard that moment the shelby decision came down stakeholder groups met with members of congress because the only way we can put section four. >> in is congress. it says congress shall determine which jurisdictions are the most egregious such that the remedy is preclearance. these 16 jurisdictions must preclearance rate that is what it said. they said in the shelby decision we were discriminating against states from back in the day. so i want you all to note we have been fighting. i have now filed five times in five successive congresses the voting rights advancemen

rick pil—des — the sudler family professor of constitutional law at new york university school of law's not totally unforeseen, though. it still is something of a surprise. a number of state courts had been asked to do the same thing up till now. all of them had declined to do so for various reasons. so this is the first time a state court has ruled that former president trump is disqualified from office from running for the presidency again. so there's two points. i just want to spend a bit of time focusing on the issue of whether insurrection does apply to president donald trump and whether he was involved as sufficiently or not. and secondly, whether this whole area of law applies to the president or presidential candidates at all. so let's deal with the first one first. they ruled that donald trump was sufficiently involved in what was an insurrection and therefore he can't stand. is that right? yes, that's correct. i mean, there are two separate questions there, as you suggested. one is whetherjanuary 6th and what happened at the capitol constitutes an insurrection. that's a lega

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last but not lst is professor tara grove, the chair of law at the university of texas school of law, i have to pay my respects, they do pay -- ey do play football again. she graduated summa cum laude from duke university and she earned her jd, magna cool latte from harva law school, where she served as the supreme court chair of the harvard ball review . professor grove clerk for judge gars on the united states court of appeals for t fifth circuit, where i started my career, and then spent four years as an attorney for the department of justice civil division appellate staff. she is a co-author of low and jeffrey's federal courts in the law federal state relations and she has served as the chair of the federal court section of the association of american law schools. she also previously received the paul bap touaward. de? [applause] >> thank you, judge. let the record show i made it almost to 9:15 am before i stopped at the first insult to notre dame football today. next year is a brand-new year. thank you all for being here. and i was teaching and friday morning. in part because the

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heller, professor of law at the university of california at berkeley, non-resident senior fellow at therican enterprise institute and visiting fellow at the hoover institution. after the speakers have given their remarks, we will turn to you the audience for questions. if you have a question at any point during the program, please type it into the q&a for you the bottom of your screen and we will handle those as we can towards the end of the program. what's that, thank you all very much for being with us. professor yoo, over to you. >> thank you, everybody, for joining us. this is may be we hope the last episode of the year but we have been saying that for the last three weeks, john and i, on presidential power and the trump trials and investigations, executive privilege. now, when you? we would talk about -- who knew we would talk about presidential disc modification? earlier this week this -- the colorado supreme court held the 14th of moment requires donald trump be disqualified from running for president because as the court found donald trump participated in an insurrection or rebe

attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. she's a co-host of the podcast hashtag sisters in law. also melissa murray, professor of law at new york university. they are both msnbc legal analysts. joyce vance, to the appeal that donald trump's lawyers have filed, they are, in effect, insisting, they don't even bother to put it in his request, they are insisting that judge chutkan stop everything in the case, do absolutely nothing now that they have filed this appeal on the issue, the issues that they believe should absolutely stop the proceedings. what do you make of their appeal? judge chutkan has given jack smith an expedited time schedule for filing his response to it by sunday night. >> yeah, so the argument, lawrence, is essentially a technical legal argument. trump's lawyers are saying that the district court, the trial court, is divested of any jurisdiction to continue ruling on anything involved in the trial. now this issue is on appeal. they cite some very standard case law. there's a supreme court case, for instance, t

live now to rick pildes — the sudler family professor of constitutional law at new york university schoolcourt now finds itself? a penny for the thought ofjustice roberts. . ., , ., roberts. the court itself and certainly chief _ roberts. the court itself and certainly chiefjustice - roberts. the court itself and | certainly chiefjustice roberts would like to keep a low profile regarding the 2024 election. they realise, or most of the justices realise, or most of the justices realise the political culture is so toxic in the us right now and divisive that any decision the court makes about half the country disappointed by the decision will see the court as acting as partisan reasons. it is a difficult and dangerous position for the court to be in, but it is very hard for the court to stay out of these issues altogether. court to stay out of these issues altogether-— court to stay out of these issues altoaether. ., . . , , altogether. have we had any steer from the chief _ altogether. have we had any steer from the chiefjustice _ altogether. have we had any steer from the chiefjustice wheth

yedeliev, international lawyer, associate professor of the department of international law of taras shevchenko national university, roman. congratulations, congratulations, please explain, we talk so much about the need for help for ukraine from the united states, but not we consider the subject of the migration issue in the usa in detail, but in fact it has become vitally important for ukraine. please explain why it was not resolved for a long time, why it was raised now, why it was not resolved? that is, explain all aspects of this issue. well, look , we... we, of course, look first and foremost to ukraine and to the interests of ukraine, and we blame the united states of america for not providing the amount of support that they promised, that they can provide, and that is necessary for the fastest possible victory of ukraine. but we there has also been much talk of 2024 being an election year in the united states of america. and this is the question of building a wall on the border between the united states. states of america and mexico, this is also a pre-election promise of mr. trump, when he was first elect

of the msnbc podcast prosecuting donald trump. also with this part mcquade, former u.s. attorney law professor at the university of michigan law school. she is the co-host of the podcast hashtag sisters in law. they're both msnbc legal analyst. before we start our discussion, let's listen to the way donald trump would argue his immunity appeal to the united states supreme court. it would be a very quick argument. this is how he put it. in a radio interview today. >> i am a time to immunity. the campaign was over. the campaign was over. >> absolutely. >> it was a rigged election. it was a rigged election. this tremendous proof of it. everyone knows it. and that's what i was doing. i had an obligation. you talk about chief law enforcement i had an obligation and i took that obligation seriously. i'm entitled to immunity. even if i was campaigning by the way, i'd be entitled. >> andrew weissmann, the trump lawyers, it seems to me, are going to do a longer version of essentially that, essentially what we just heard. absolutely. this is where donald trump's latest defense du jour is coming from. when mark meadows tr

of his legal troubles make a difference? will it matter at all? well, joining me now, barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney, law professor at the universitymichigan law school and an msnbc legal analyst. glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor, host of the justice matters podcast,

appointed by george w bush in 2001 to the bench, went to the university of oklahoma for undergrad and law school. this book, published by the university of oklahoma press. are you doing a book tour? and when you're on a book tour, do you prefer the title author or judge? i will. i'm when i'm out, when i'm talking about my book, i prefer the author hat. now, the fact that i'm a judge is is part of the story, i suppose, but we have had some book launch events in which i really present myself much more as an author than as a judge. and and i think that plays into what the book is all about, because save for one chapter on the u.s. supreme court's treatment of communism, the book really first world stays away from legal and judicial issues and what are the rules about that, especially in that chapter where you delve into your day job, if you will, the judiciary, what rules you have to follow when you're writing about it, and what rules did you have to follow when publishing this book? well, the fundamental rule is that i that i should not expound out of court on an issue that's likely to come

lewis responded esand the resulting back and forth was published in resume i, then the law journal of the university of brooklyn law school. you can find lewises side of this spirited but well mannered debate in the document. in his essay about the hooligans lewis was concerned about offenders being let off too easily and what that means for the fundamental social compact. here he is concerned with criminalsbeing treated as less than human . he was worried about developments in european jurisprudence such that deterrence and rehabilitation become the chief goals of the criminal justice system rather than punishing the wrongdoer simply because he or she deserves it. it may sound paradoxical but lewis believed that when we punish a human being for wrong we acknowledge the dignity of human being and make policies possible restoration. because that human being should have and could have known better with dignity enough to know better. there's nothing wrong with deterring crime or rehabilitating a criminal as a side effect of a prison term lewis argued but if those are the chief priorities and there are

of the msnbc podcast prosecuting donald trump. also with this barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney and law professor at the university of michigan law school. she is also the co-host of the podcast hashtag sisters in law. they are both msnbc legal analysts. and andrew, with the guidance of justice kavanaugh, i just can't see how it's anything but unanimous. >> okay, so i agree with you that the supreme court is, i think, gonna take this. they're gonna have a decision that's expedited, and i think on the double jeopardy part of the issue it's hard to see how it would be unanimous. it's such a clear issue. on the other part, you only need five. i'll be happy with five. whether the court, there are certain justices who are stragglers and in dissent, so be it. it doesn't matter as long as you get to five. that's the famous sort of mike sandra day o'connor were saying what's it like being on the supreme court and she said you want to know what it's like? five. it's all about how you get to five. i'm a little bit sanguine then you are with respect to the kavanaugh article. this is why. the court has already said, with resp

appointed by george w bush in 2001 to the bench, went to the university of oklahoma for undergrad and law school. this book, published by the university of oklahoma press. are you doing a book tour? and when you're on a book tour, do you prefer the title author or judge? i will. i'm when i'm out, when i'm talking about my book, i prefer the author hat. now, the fact that i'm a judge is is part of the story, i suppose, but we have had some book launch events in which i really present myself much more as an author than as a judge. and and i think that plays into what the book is all about, because save for one chapter on the u.s. supreme court's treatment of communism, the book really first world stays away from legal and judicial issues and what are the rules about that, especially in that chapter where you delve into your day job, if you will, the judiciary, what rules you have to follow when you're writing about it, and what rules did you have to follow when publishing this book? well, the fundamental rule is that i that i should not expound out of court on an issue that's likely to come