Lawrence: SCOTUS ‘threw out half of Trump’s appeal’ in immunity case

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: The Supreme Court agrees to hear Donald Trump’s immunity claim, extending the delay of the federal January 6 criminal trial. Also, why hasn’t Justice Clarence Thomas recused himself from the Trump immunity case. And a judge denies Trump’s plea to pay only a $100M bond in the New York civil fraud case. Neal Katyal, Laurence Tribe, Rep. Daniel Goldman, Tim O’Brien, and Joyce Vance join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening on this big news night
0:04.7	Lawrence. Good evening, Alex, and of course we have our Supreme Court experts with us, Neil
0:08.4	Cattiale and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe. They've got a lot to say and I'm going to get straight to it.
0:14.4	Do it.
0:15.4	Thank you.
0:16.4	Thank you.
0:17.4	Well lost in the fog of today's Supreme Court news is the hard fact that Donald Trump is still scheduled to go to trial in Manhattan
0:26.6	on March 25th to face criminal charges in his first criminal trial,
0:32.1	charges that he tried to affect the results of the 2016
0:35.4	presidential election by making hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels,
0:40.8	who will likely become one of the star witnesses against Donald Trump in that
0:46.0	trial, a witness who even Donald Trump's followers will have no problem understanding when she
0:51.7	describes what Donald Trump did with her
0:54.0	alone in a hotel room while his wife was pregnant and when she describes how
1:00.6	Donald Trump delivered his hush money payments to her.
1:05.0	And nothing that the Supreme Court did today is helping Donald Trump get out of the
1:09.3	crushing weight of half a billion dollars of civil judgments that he is now facing in New York.
1:15.3	Today Donald Trump said he is not rich enough to pay those judgments after previously
1:20.3	testifying under oath that he is rich enough to pay those judgments.
1:24.4	We will get to the struggles criminal defendant and civil defendant Donald Trump is facing in
1:29.8	New York later in this hour.
1:32.4	Today at least four members of the United States
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