Jack Smith asks SCOTUS to take up the Trump immunity claim

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Trump lawyers call Jack Smith’s Supreme Court gambit an attempt to “complicate” the appeal process. Also, Rudy Giuliani is accused of more defamatory claims about Georgia election workers. Plus, Biden and Zelenskyy urge congress for more Ukraine aid. Andrew Weissmann, Barbara McQuade, and Timothy Snyder join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it is time for the last word with Lawrence of Donald. Good evening
0:04.0	Lawrence. Good evening Alex and we all remember where we were the night that the
0:09.7	draft opinion of the Supreme Court's overturning Roe versus Wade came out.
0:15.4	Samuel Alito's draft opinion.
0:18.2	I'll never forget running down the hallways here with it in my hands, not believing
0:22.2	that we had such a document.
0:24.0	Tonight in this hour I have something almost as good and it involves what will be the opinion of the Supreme Court in Donald
0:37.8	Trump's appeal and it is so strong that it is sending me out on the following limb.
0:47.0	And Andrew Weisman's here and knocked me off that limb in a minute if he feels like it.
0:52.0	I'm now predicting a unanimous opinion by the Supreme
0:57.8	Court against Donald Trump on both counts of his appeal.
1:03.0	The immunity, the double jeopardy, unanimous.
1:06.4	I don't see any other way.
1:09.6	If Clarence Thomas doesn't recuse himself
1:11.8	and hangs in there, I don't even see how he's
1:14.9	going to be able to find his way to ruling in Donald Trump's favor on any of
1:19.3	this and this view now comes from this almost equivalent,
1:26.7	almost equivalent of the Alito leak.
1:29.3	This is from one of the Supreme Court justices who will decide this.
1:33.0	It is going to be a grave disappointment for Donald Trump
1:36.4	because this is a Supreme Court justice appointed
1:38.6	by Donald Trump, who could not be more solidly
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