0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dershow. Yesterday, I talked about what I consider one of the greatest
0:07.2	dangers currently facing, our constitutional rule of law, the attempt by some get Trump
0:14.2	lawyers, judges, law professors to try to invoke the 14th Amendment to prevent Trump from
0:22.8	running for president of the United States. It's a bizarre idea, plainly unconstitutional,
0:30.7	but when it comes to get Trump, nothing is sacred, not the Constitution, not the rule of law.
0:39.5	Recently, Professor Lawrence Tribe and Judge Aleutek, who was called by MSNBC,
0:47.0	a modern-day poll revere, I would change it a little, a modern-day Joe McCarthy,
0:52.5	would probably be a little clear. I've argued in front of Judge Aleutek, he was a result-oriented
0:59.3	judicial person who didn't really ever consider legal analysis more than the results. I was never a
1:10.7	fan, a lot of Republicans liked him now, a lot of Republicans are leading the get Trump charge.
1:19.9	30 or so more of them, former Republican professors, judges, etc, wrote a brief
1:26.6	and amicus brief to the court in the District of Columbia urging them to rush to injustice by
1:33.9	putting Trump on trial in January 2nd, which would be so clearly unconstitutional, as I've said.
1:39.2	If I were one of the lawyers in that case, I would stand in front of the judge and say,
1:42.1	sorry, Your Honor, I'm not trying this case on January 2nd. You can't make me violate my oath
1:49.6	of office to provide a zealous defense. You would be inviting an ineffective assistance of counsel.
1:56.2	I am not an ineffective assistance of counsel. I am not trying this case in four months and three
2:03.2	weeks after the indictment. It's unheard of. I don't care what these law professors think.
2:07.7	I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it and I urge every other lawyer to refuse to step into court
2:14.0	and to defend anybody on this kind of a rush to injustice schedule. It violates the defendant's
2:21.4	rights to a fair trial. It confuses the government's obligation to provide a fair trial with some sort
2:29.1	of speedy trials. Speedy trial in the Constitution only applies to defendants, but these get Trump
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