Why Trump could lose to Jack Smith and face prison risk: Katyal on SCOTUS news

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IN ANY WAY, AND JACK SMITH SAYS THEY SHOULDN'T BE IMMUNE WHEN AMENDING DEMOCRACY ALLEGEDLY. >> JACK SMITH'S FILING IS REALLY POWERFUL. IT SAYS EVERY WHICH WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, DONALD TRUMP LOSES, THERE'S NOTHING HERE FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT TO REALLY LOOK AT, AND CERTAINLY NO REASON TO DELAY A CRIMINAL TRIAL. I MEAN, IF YOU AND I WERE EVER INDICTED, WE WOULDN'T GET TO RUN TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND STOP OUR CRIMINAL TRIAL BECAUSE WE HAD SOME LEGAL QUIBBLE WITH WHAT'S GOING ON. YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE TRIAL FIRST, AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT SMITH IS SAYING HERE. AND HE'S SAYING THERE'S A MASSIVE COST ON THE OTHER SIDE THAT IF YOU GIVE THIS DELAY, THEN YOU ARE GOING TO INTERFERE WITH THIS CRIMINAL TRIAL TO THE POINT WHERE IT MAY NEVER HAPPEN. NOW, WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE WE GOT INTERRUPTED BY THE POLICE CHIEF'S PRESS CONFERENCE WAS THE LAST COUPLE OF PAGES OF JACK SMITH'S BRIEF. 36 PAGES ARE THE SUPREME COURT, THERE'S NOTHING HERE. THERE ARE THREE PAGES THAT DO THE RESPONSIBLE THING FOR A SUPREME COURT ADVOCATE. WHAT THEY'RE SAYING IS, LOOK, IF YOU DISAGREE, SUPREME COURT, AND YOU THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO HEAR HERE, THEN YOU SHOULD HEAR IT REALLY FAST. SO FAST THAT TRUMP WILL HAVE TEN DAYS TO FILE THEIR BRIEF, JACK SMITH WILL HAVE SEVEN TO FILE HIS RESPONSE, TRUMP WILL HAVE FIVE DAYS TO FILE HIS RESPONSE TO JACK SMITH'S PAPERS, AND THEN ORAL ARGUMENT WITHIN ABOUT A MONTH FROM NOW. THAT IS THE THING YOU DO. I'VE WRITTEN THESE BRIEFS TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT IN THE BIG CASES. THAT'S THE RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO, WHICH IS TO SIGNAL TO THE SUPREME COURT, WHICH YOU CALLED, ARI, PLAN B, AN ARGUMENT AND AN ALTERNATIVE. IT'S NOT AT ALL A SIGN OF WEAKNESS BY SMITH, IT'S AN INCREDIBLY MUSCULAR BRIEF BUT THAT'S WHAT THE LAST THREE PAGES ARE ABOUT. >> IT JUMPED OUT TO YOU, AND I QUOTED FROM IT EARLIER BECAUSE IT'S A VERY INTERESTING TO SEE, I MEAN, THIS IS HIGH STAKES. AND THE TRUMP FOLKS HAVE THEIR STRATEGY, PARTIALLY DELAY, PARTIALLY LEANING ON ARGUMENTS THAT MIGHT NEVER WIN BUT COULD BUY THEM TIME. THAT PLAN B GIVES A STRATEGIC REBUTTAL TO THAT. I WANTED TO PLAY SOMETHING BRIEFLY FROM THE FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER WHO RAN THE DOJ, YOU SERVED IN HIGH POSITIONINGS AS DOJ BECAUSE HE JOINED ME THIS WEEK IN TALKING ABOUT THE ARGUMENT THE TRUMP PEOPLE ARE PROJECTING AS ALWAYS. ACCUSE OTHERS OF SOMEHOW THERE BEING A TWO-TIERED SYSTEM, WHEN IN FACT, TRUMP'S ENTIRE ARGUMENT IS
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Channel: MSNBC
Views: 211,097
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Keywords: Ari Melber, jack smith, donald trump, supreme court, scotus, presidential immunity
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Length: 2min 47sec (167 seconds)
Published: Thu Feb 15 2024
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