rights, and actually, another worrisome one that ron desantis just signed is an alien land law, which says that persons from particular countries, china, venezuela, and cuba cannot buy land in florida. this goes back to the racist alien land laws that were in this country 100 years ago. but can you a match in a real estate agent having to check your immigration papers before they could actually sell you a condo? that s what we re coming down to. it is a very sad trajectory that were on. congressman lieu, we often hear that this country is a melting pot. we certainly want to believe that, but what do you think needs to happen for our collective actions to align with our words? let me just share with you a story. last year, i had talked to a ceo in my district. he had a start-up company, he also happened to be an immigrant. he is making a new computer
that happened is tuesday, tuesday is the day that judge cannon has set as the day that trump s lawyers must start to get security clearance to see the documents. that s a pretty quick day, and a pretty quick deadline. so that s encouraging that it looks like this thing is moving along faster than many people expected. but discovery, when you turn over the information, that takes a while and then there s the fact that a lot of this stuff is classified and there s a whole federal law on that. so i think that s why it s unlikely before that this is going to be finished before the election. but jack smith is working as hard as he can to get it done. the washington post reported this week that last fall, one of trump s attorneys suggested proposing a settlement over the classified documents case that would preclude charges. this is just one of many instances in which trump s legal team has urged him to cooperate, to avoid possibly in this case, federal criminal indictment that ended up
authorities about the documents in his possession. that s what sets his case apart. both clinton and biden actually worked with investigators. so, here s a comparison that might be more useful for trump. retired air force officer robert worsham, who like the former president was accused in florida of mishandling classified documents and charged with violating at the very same law that the president, the former president has been accused of violating, the espionage act. bertram, unlike trump, took full responsibility for his actions and expressed remorse. but despite that, he was just sentenced to three years in prison. so, if i was donald trump, i would spend less time talking about bill clinton s sock drawer, and more time building an actual legally sound defense. let s bring in my panel into the conversation. jennifer former she has since left the gop. dave aronberg, state attorney for palm beach, florida, and
jill wine banks nbc legal analyst and co-host of the sisters in law podcast. jill, i ll start with you. what do you make of that motion filed by the special counsel jack smith, and it s reference to material regarding quote, ongoing investigations? of course, that raises the probability that jack smith and his team are going to have additional indictments. whether that is for the january 6th, whether that is just adding additional people to the mar-a-lago documents case, or a third possibility, we don t know. but it is a very interesting addendum to this, and it also is ironic that there are no defenses, basically, to the case that s already been brought. and so, there s always a rule for trial lawyers that if the law is on your side, stress the law. if the facts are on your side, stress the facts. and if neither is on your side,
texas attorney general put forth really sloppy arguments that basically acted as though the court was already in their pocket. they didn t need to worry about presenting a really persuasive case to the justices, and that clearly offended several of them. not just kavanaugh, but also barrett in the most recent decision. and that doesn t carry through for the next two cases. these have all been years and years in the making, whether that s the affirmative action case that was so carefully planted out over the course of decades, frankly, or the major gay rights case. these are in the hands of very clever lawyers and publicity folks, and political relations people, who know how to make a strong case and make the justices feel like they have really solid grounds. and furthermore, these are passion project for various justices on the right that really want to indicate their long held beliefs that the law must be held far from the center, toward the right.