It's time for Justice Matters with former federal prosecutor and MS NBC analyst Glenn Kirchner. In a new court filing, special counsel Jack Smith is looking to put Donald Trump's

lawyers on a short legal leash. Here's Glen with details.

So friends, Special Counsel Jack Smith just submitted a new court filing in

Donald Trump's criminal prosecution in Washington, D.C.

for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

This new court filing is called Emotion in limine.

It's just a fancy term for when one party,

the prosecutors in this instance,

try to limit the arguments or the evidence that can be introduced by the other party.

Why? Because some evidence is inadmissible.

Some arguments are improper.

So a motion in limine is kind of a list of don'ts.

Jack Smith is seeking to have the presiding judge, Judge Tanya Chutkin, order the defense team. the

criminal defense attorneys, Donald Trump's lawyers

to refrain from making certain improper arguments. Why? Because they're improper. They would

violate the rules of evidence or the rules of procedure or the rules that govern

criminal trials generally. Now motions in limine are entirely usual. I

filed a ton in my 30 years as a prosecutor. In the cases I tried defense attorneys filed a ton of motions in limine.

Entirely usual part of the criminal litigation practice.

Of course there's nothing unusual about this case, right? A

president trying to overturn the results of a presidential election that he

lost and resorting to violence to do it through his angry mob that he set on the

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