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Glenn Kirschner - he’s an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and former Assistant U.S. Attorney at the D.C. U.S Attorney's Office. Now you can join him for Justice Matters. Glenn brings analysis and insight to current legal issues, drawing from his 30 years as a federal prosecutor, homicide prosecutor, and Army JAG. For three decades, Glenn argued to juries and judges, breaking down complex legal issues in clear and relatable ways. Every weekday his podcast brings that same approach to his ana ...
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Investigating matters of human rights at home and abroad. Listen to the podcast by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, hosted by Executive Director Maggie Gates and a team of Harvard faculty members acting as co-hosts, including Mathias Risse, Aminta Ossom, Rob Wilkinson, Kathryn Sikkink, and Yanilda Gonzalez.
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In two related stories, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia has sued Donald Trump for his unlawful militarization of the streets of DC. And a new court filing reveals what Fox News executives know about Jeanine Pirro, who Trump appointed to be the US Attorney for the District of Columbia. As NPR reported: "Fox bosses privately called …
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On today’s episode of Justice Matters co-host Maggie Gates speaks with Anna Romandash about the impacts of misinformation in the global narrative around the war in Ukraine. Anna Romandash is an award-winning journalist from Ukraine and an author of “Women of Ukraine: Reportages from the War and Beyond” (2023). She has spent years documenting human …
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Grand juries sit as the conscious of the community, making sure the charges brought by prosecutors are supported by the evidence AND acting as an important guardrail against prosecutorial overreach and abuse. It's very unusual for grand juries to refuse to indict a defendant on felony charges proposed by federal prosecutors. However, grand juries h…
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After a full trial, a federal judge in California ruled that Trump grabbing control of the California National Guard and his deployment of the military to the streets of Los Angeles was illegal, and he also ordered him to stop violating the Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law that prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law. As Politico repor…
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Fox News Host turned top prosecutor in DC, Jeanine Pirro, engaged in gross prosecutorial overreach by urging multiple grand juries to charge protestors with felonies when the facts plainly warranted only misdemeanor charges. Fortunately, the grand jurors, sitting as the conscious of the community, refused to indict the protestors of felony crimes. …
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On January 6, 2021, Ashley Babbitt was a rioter and insurrectionist who was shot as she attempted to climb through a busted window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker's Lobby as members of Congress were being evacuated from the US Capitol. While she was in the process of committing crimes by trying to breach the Capitol, she was shot and ki…
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It's a rare occurrence when a grand jury refuses to indict a case that a prosecutor urges them to indict. Yet Donald Trump's US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, had grand juries tell her N0, they would NOT indict two protestors for assaulting police officers. In fact, those grand juries told here no FOUR TIMES! One of the prote…
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A Trump-appointed Judge, Thomas Cullen, has thrown out the lawsuit Trump had his DOJ officials file against ALL federal trial court judges in Maryland when the Chief Judge instituted a two-day pause on deportations to give the judges enough time to see if the Trump administration was violating the legal or Constitutional rights of undocumented immi…
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Abrego Garcia has fought the Trump administration multiple times and won. But Trump and company just can't quit violating Abrego's constitutional rights. After DOJ lawyers lost a motion to keep him detained in connection with his criminal case in Tennessee, Abrego was released from prison and traveled home to his family in Maryland. However, when h…
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Donald Trump is forever threatening to prosecute his enemies: Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Leticia James, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, Christopher Krebs, Miles Taylor, John Brennan, James Comey and on and on and on. Yet none of these individuals have been criminally charged. There are several reasons for the lack of criminal charges. On…
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A third federal judge has denied Pam Bondi's motion to unseal the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts. Just as other judges had pointed out, Judge Richard Berman said Trump's DOJ is engaged in a "diversion" by seeking to have a judge unseal a grand jury transcript that has no new information in it while DOJ has the power an…
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Given that the Trump Administration has been involved in resisting, if not outright defying, federal court orders early and often, it may come as a surprise that they have complied with a court order requiring them to obey a federal law designed to promote transparency in how Trump and company are spending ("apportioning") our taxpayer dollars. Gle…
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Donald Trump has unlawfully and unconstitutionally attempted to seize complete control of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). And Pam Bondi has tried to push the highly-regarded MPD Chief of Police Pamela Smith out of her job and install a Trump flunky named Terry Cole. Is it any surprise that the Trump administration is trying …
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Donald Trump has had control of the DC Metropolitan Police Department for only a few days, but he's already signaling that he wants Congress to extend his control of the city's police forces. This continued dictatorial power grab is an obvious attempt to distract the public's attention from the Trump/Epstein/Maxwell scandal, as DOJ is still refusin…
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Immigrants being detained by ICE at a facility in Manhattan had been complaining for weeks about unsanitary and inhumane conditions. A spokeswoman for Trump's Department of Homeland Security said those complaints were lies. But once a video of the conditions inside that facility was published by The New York Times, it turns out the confinement cond…
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Justice Matters is celebrating its 100th episode today with co-host Mathias Risse's conversation with Jessica Stern about the state of LGBTQI+ rights around the world. Jessica Stern is one of the world’s most distinguished LGBTQI+ human rights leaders. Appointed by President Joe Biden, Stern served as the U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rig…
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Donald Trump has ordered the deployment of National Guard soldiers to the streets of the District of Columbia, seized control of the DC Metropolitan Police Department, and said he was taking 120 FBI agents out of their current assignments and making them patrol the streets of DC. As the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Brian Schwalb s…
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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A New York federal court judge has rejected the motion filed by DOJ/Pam Bondi/Todd Blanche to release the grand jury transcripts in the Ghislaine Maxwell case. According the ABC News, Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a lengthy opinion, criticizing the "Department of Justice for using 'demonstrably false' reasoning to justify the release of grand jury t…
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It wasn't long ago that DC Federal District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan was presiding over Donald Trump's criminal case for his attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election form the American voters. Judge Chutkan is a fair, impartial, independent, and no-nonsense judge who refused to put up with the dilatory tactics and other shenanigans of Trump …
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The Trump/Epstein/Maxwell scandal is not going away. In recent days, Donald Trump and Pam Bondi have tried to distract the public by announcing investigations of former President Barack Obama, Senator Adam Schiff, and New York Attorney General Leticia James. But no matter how many Trumped-up investigations they announce, they will not distract the …
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator in child sex trafficking crimes, was interviewed by Trump's former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche. Maxwell is serving 20 years in prison and has every incentive to curry favor with Blanche and Trump in hopes of a presidential pardon. When interviewing someone in Maxwell's situati…
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The Donald Trump/Pam Bondi reality show continues with reporting that the DOJ will release a transcript of an interview Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, conducted with convicted child sex trafficker and indicated perjurer Ghislaine Maxwell. In the interview, Maxwell reportedly said Trump did nothing wrong. Of course, we alrea…
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Another day, another attempted distraction from the Epstein/Maxwell scandal. As Trump's presidency continues to be dragged down by the Epstein debacle and the favors he's doing for Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Attorney General Pam Bondi announces a bogus investigation into Barack Obama and his administration for investigati…
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Donald Trump is drowning in the Epstein/Maxwell scandal. So day after day he tries to create a distraction. The latest? His Department of Justice will be investigating former Special Counsel Jack Smith. Glenn discusses why this particular investigation will go exactly nowhere! For nightly live Law Talks, please join Glenn on Substack: glennkirschne…
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It looks like Trump and company are already currying favor with Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. News broke that Maxwell was transferred from FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) Tallahassee - a prison that houses men and women - to a low-security women's "federal prison camp" in Texas. As a career federal prosecutor,…
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The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility has issued a report recommending that former Department of Justice lawyer Jeffrey Clark be disbarred for his role in Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The Report states: "On the merits, we conclude that Disciplinary Counsel proved by clear and con…
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With a big "FU" to the federal judiciary and the American People, Senate Republicans confirm Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Emil Bove, to the 3rd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. The Republicans didn't care that Bove was credibly accused of telling DOJ lawyers that they would need to tell federal court judges "FU" and defy their …
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On today’s episode of Justice Matters co-host Aminta Ossom speaks with Yara Sallam about the experiences of women human rights defenders in Egypt and Tunisia as well as her personal history following the Arab Spring that led her to write about burnout and well-being in human rights activism. Yara Sallam is a prominent feminist activist and human ri…
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Pam Bondi's Department of Justice continues to try to gaslight the American people in new and ridiculous ways, filing a complaint against the chief judge of federal district court in Washington, DC. Notably, the Washington Post published a deep dive piece regarding the unethical conduct of the Trump administration in federal court cases: "Trump off…
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Senators Richard Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse are demanding that the Department of Justice release the tapes of the recent interviews with Jeffrey Epstein's convicted co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney and current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch reportedly interviewed Maxwell for nine hours. The …
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Donald Trump's Department of Justice lawyers can't litigate their way out of a paper bag. Of course, most of the blame lies with Trump himself. When he's not on the golf course, he's in the Oval Office signing unlawful and unconstitutional executive orders, one after another. Attorney General Pam Bondi then sends her third-rate DOJ lawyers into cou…
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If Donald Trump thought suing the Wall Street Journal would get them to back off on their reporting about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, it looks like he was sorely mistaken. The Wall Street Journal isn't backing down, it's doubling-down, printing a new story reporting that Trump is not only IN the Epstein files but that Pam Bondi TOLD HIM his …
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The federal judges are trying their best to protect the American people against Donald Trump's lawlessness and unconstitutionality. In a recent court ruling, DC Federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan - not only ruled that the Trump administration violated a federal statute that requires transparency and public disclosure about how the executive bran…
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Donald Trump's former defense attorney and current political appointee Todd Blanche reportedly is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is represented by Blanche's "friend" David Oscar Markus. This is a veritable conflict jamboree, and no one is likely to have any confidence in whatever Blanche tells the American people happened in the meeting. Glenn…
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Donald Trump sued the Wall Street Journal in federal court in Southern Florida, perhaps hoping that he would again draw Aileen Cannon as a judge. But he didn't. Rather, the same judge that presided over the lawsuit Trump brought against Michael Cohen - Judge Darrin Gayles - was assigned the Wall Street Journal case. Judge Gayles has seen the Trump …
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Donald Trump's base is fleeing from him and turning against him as a result of his pathetic flip-flop on releasing the Epstein files. So Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have come up with an absurd scheme to try to mitigate the damage: release the Epstein grand jury transcripts. Here's the problem: the transcripts have been in the possession of…
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In a time when Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are trying to bury all Jeffrey Epstein-related information, including Epstein's client list, they decided to fire Maurene Comey, the highly-regarded career federal prosecutor who was entrusted with handling some of the most high-profile and sensitive federal prosecutions in N.Y., like Epstein, his co-conspi…
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NPR reported, "As Republicans call for transparency into Epstein probe, Trump lashes out". Trump seems to be unraveling as a result of the backlash surrounding his decision to refuse to release information about the Epstein files. In social media posts he refers to his supporters as "weaklings" and says Republicans who disagree with him are "stupid…
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Tune in next Monday for another episode of Justice Matters: Conversations About Crime & Punishment! Follow Justice Matters: Instagram: instagram.com/justicematterspodcast/ TikTok: tiktok.com/@justicematterspod Subscribe on YouTube @JusticeMattersPod Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify! New episodes every week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …
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Only Congress can create or close a government agency like the Department of Education. However, the six right-wing Supreme Court Justices ruled that Trump can continue his efforts to close the Department of Education even though it clearly violates the doctrine of separation of powers. Justice Sotomayor authored a powerful and persuasive dissentin…
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A federal judge in California has ruled that the Trump's law enforcement agents have been violating the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution in the way they have been conducting mass immigrations sweeps in California. In language as clear as it is compelling, Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong said in her ruling and order: "Do all individuals—regard…
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A federal judge has certified a class action lawsuit to protect all children who would be impacted by Donald Trump's unconstitutional birthright citizenship ban, and he issued a preliminary injunction putting a temporary stop to it. In a very real and direct sense, federal judges from coast to coast are protecting we the people against Trump's lawl…
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Donald Trump is forever populating his enemies list: Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Adam Schiff, Leticia James, Alvin Bragg, Jack Smith, Miles Taylor, Chris Krebs, John Brennan, and Comey, and of course, the OG of Trump's enemies list, Hillary Clinton. Importantly, not a single one of these people has ever actually been prosecuted or charged with any …
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Three new legal developments can accurately be described as the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good - a federal judge temporarily blocks Trump's attempt to cut all medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood. The bad - the Supreme Court issues a stay that moves the Trump administration a step closer to mass firings of federal employees and closing fed…
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