it vladimir kara-murza satisfies all the legal criteria, has not gotten the status. the state department, why is vladimir clara mers of not being given the status of unlawfully detained, so the u.s. government can fight for his release? and as you mentioned, there's lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, we had a letter to the state department that was signed by 50 senators, half democrats, half republicans, 33 members of the house of representatives, pushing on the state department to give vladimir the status. vladimir is now, i would say, the most beloved political prisoner from the west he's the guy who stands up for the -- russia should be. he's the person who says russia peacefully coexist. he's one who said that this war shouldn't be happening. he's one who said that ukraine should be given reparations. he's the one that we should be fighting for, in addition to evan gershkovich's, so that he can be freed and he can be the voice of the russian opposition. not dying in prison. >> if anybody knows how to move the leaders of power, you are certainly one of those pe

in fact, all vladimir kara-murza did was exercise his constitutional right to express his opinions freelyshould not be subject to prosecution, but it turns out that, with this verdict, the court simply overturned article 29 of the constitution. today, harvard law professor laurence tribe said being -- by vladimir putin who regularly murderous his political rivals on what it takes to be a model democracy is being lectured by adolf hitler on what it means to respect human rights and equal justice under law. joining us now is professor laurence tribe, who was taught constitutional law at harvard law school for five decades. professor tribe, thank you very much for joining us tonight. what does vladimir putin not understand about our criminal justice system? >> thank you for having me, lawrence. i think he doesn't understand anything about it. or if he does, he's quite ready to turn it upside down, as mr. curry muses mother said, it's the world turned upside down. vladimir putin who -- is hardly the person to talk to us about how democracy should work. he uses the word democracy, but he means

putin's dictatorship has jailed his main political rival, alexei navalny, and yesterday sentenced vladimir kara-murzan post opinions contributor, to 25 years in prison in a hearing in the case last week, he said i am in jail for my political views. for speaking out against the war in ukraine. for many years of struggle against putin's dictatorship. not only do i not repent any of this, i am proud of it. mr. kara-murza has had his mother's say i felt like i fell asleep there and woke up in a kafka novel. who are all these people? the world is upside down, we are in the 23rd year of the 21st century. what's going on? to at a hearing in another case yesterday, election of all the said this about the kara-murza case. i consider this sentence as legal, unconscionable, and simply fascist. ivan pavlov, a russian lawyer who has defended russia's accused of treason told the washington post that this sentence quote, exceeds the sentence normally given to murderers. in fact, all vladimir hermosa did was exercise his constitutional right to express his opinions freely, pavlov said. this right should not be subje