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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20190920 02:44:30

Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20190920 02:44:30
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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20190920 02:03:00

inspector general at the national security agency. he was quoted in the original breaking news report from the wsht washington post wsht last night. and tom donnelln, you have seen him dozens of times in situations with president obama including that memorable photograph from the situation room during the killing of osama bin laden. and harvard law school s recognized authority on constitutional law, professor lawrence tribe, will join us later in this hour. on the day when the president s lawyers finally said donald trump can indeed commit any crime that you can think of and no prosecutor in america can ever do anything about it as long as donald trump is president. the trump lawyers filed an extraordinary document in court today saying that in effect president trump could shoot someone on fifth avenue and the manhattan district attorney could do nothing about it.

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20190920 02:49:00

2283, to dismiss the case because it is not permissible for a federal court as a principle basically of states rights, believe it or not, it s not permissible for a federal court to mess around with an ongoing state criminal proceeding. sml as that. and so professor, if that lawsuit would it be different if that lawsuit had been filed in new york state court? well, they would then be making an equally absurd argument. but at least they would be in the right forum. they re trying to say that the state courts have to be kicked out of the picture because after all the president is a federal official. that doesn t immunize him from state process. it doesn t immunize him from state proceedings. there are only very limited exceptions to this anti-injunction act. the only one that could

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20190920 05:50:00

texaco, the u.s. supreme court said on behalf of one company that had lost a big judgment in a state court that it couldn t run off to federal court to kind of interrupt the state proceeding. the only way to get federal review of a state judgment is to let the state proceeding run its course and then take your chances with asking the u.s. supreme court to review the result. but the most important point, even more important than the fact that they ve, you know, gone to the wrong court in order to try to hoodwink the judicial system. the most important point is that they ve taken this outlandish position that says the president and all those around him are above the law. they can t be investigated for any crime no matter how serious until the president is out of office. well, he s basically inviting the country to kick him out of office so that he can be held accountable to the law.

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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20190920 02:48:00

the federal court filing is even more extreme than that. they have taken the position that the president s company cannot be investigated, that those who may have conspired with him to commit financial and other crimes cannot be investigated, that the whole state proceeding must be stopped in its tracks. among other things, there is a federal law going all the way back to the founding, actually to 1793. it s called the anti-injunction act. and it says that no federal court can interfere with an ongoing state proceeding. so that when the judge finally has to rule on this outlandish claim you cannot investigate criminality on the part of the president, his company and his cronies, the judge will have the obligation under the anti-injunction act, 28 usc

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