Episode 53 (original 2020 series)
COURTSIDE with Neal Katyal
Neal Katyal
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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January 4, 2021
Trump loses yet another federal case; calls for his indictment and impeachment as a result of Georgia tape mount.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Courtside, everyone. A discussion of the post-election litigation brought by Donald Trump. |
| 0:05.1 | It is day 62 after the election. And today, stay for the show. I'm not going to be singing today. |
| 0:11.5 | Before getting into the Trump tapes, I want to do a quick recap of some of the litigation because we have a new development today. |
| 0:18.1 | Yes, there's been yet another loss this time in Washington, D.C. This is one of the |
| 0:24.0 | big ones, a mishmash of allegations against the elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, |
| 0:31.1 | Georgia, and Arizona filed by the Trumpistas. They filed it in Washington, D.C., and a highly |
| 0:37.1 | respected federal judge, Judge Boasberg, |
| 0:39.5 | threw it out. Here's how his opinion begins. Quote, plaintiffs' name in this elections challenge are bold |
| 0:44.8 | indeed. They asked this court to declare unconstitutional several decades old federal laws to invalidate |
| 0:50.8 | multiple state laws to ignore certain Supreme Court decisions, and the coup de grace, |
| 0:55.8 | to enjoin the U.S. Congress from counting the electoral votes on January 6th. |
| 1:00.9 | The judge didn't pull any punches. |
| 1:03.1 | Quote, in addition to being filed on behalf of plaintiffs without standing, and in the wrong court, |
| 1:08.3 | and with no effort to even serve their adversaries, this suit rests on a fundamental and obvious misreading of the Constitution. |
| 1:15.9 | It would be risible where its target not so grave the undermining of a democratic election for the president. |
| 1:22.3 | And at the end of the opinion, the judge went on to refer the attorneys who filed this lawsuit to the bar for professional |
| 1:30.3 | discipline in other news dominion announced that they would sue sydney powell for defamation and they |
| 1:37.2 | said they were exploring suits against donald trump don't trump of course will have no immunity |
| 1:41.9 | whatsoever once he leaves office in 16 days. |
| 1:45.8 | And Vice President Pence and President Trump heard a last-minute pitch from Rudy Giuliani today at the White House |
| 1:52.3 | about how Pence can interfere with the election on January 6th. |
| 1:56.4 | Good luck. I mean, today, even Senator Jack Danforth, a brilliant conservative senator lambasted, |
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