These had application to the issue that were here before your honor today. The first has nothing to do nothing related to the disqualification of anyone. Some of these are relating to aspiring for broad language of outstanding language to prosecutors. Point taken. If there are more keep going. As it relates to one of the cases referenced here earlier, and is also referenced in some of the briefing by Defense Counsel is georgia 542 and all of the cases that fall under this, what i would call cat category, is about an attorney who formally prosecuted a defendant is the same type of case or similar charges. That is why the courts found the disqualification would be necessary because of the relationship that existed between the former client and the person being prosecuted now. The next series of slides goes through what has been addressed as it relates to the standard that is required when dealing with the issue of disqualification and the state would submit to the court that the defense
Good evening from washington. I am mehdi hasan in for chris hayes. Donald trump could end up behind bars next year for conspiracy to obstruct justice. And if he does, it may very well be because of a new testimony by someone identified by the justice department, only as Trump Employee 4. Now that we have had all weekend to digest the new Superseding Indictment for donald trump from doj special counsel jack smith and the classified documents case, employee number fours involvement seems particularly notable. According to the indictment, he played a key role in what appears to be a Pressure Campaign from trump and his co defendant, Valet Walt Nauta and maralago property manager carlos de oliveira, to delete Security Footage from the club after it was subpoenaed by prosecutors. And now, it sure seems like employee 4 could be talking, it turns out, he is an i. T. Worker for maralago named yuscil taveras. According to one new report, taveras himself received a Target Letter from the departm
Of the cases that Defense Counsel had cited within their brief that had absolutely no application to the issue that were here before, your honor, today. The first mciver be state has nothing to do. Has nothing related to the disqualification of anyone. I think some of these are just relating to kind of aspiring for broad language about standards to prosecutors. So point taken there but if theyre more all right. Keep it on so as it relates to one of the cases that was referenced here earlier. And as i was also referenced in some of the briefing by Defense Counsel, is the were just savy state, which is to 87 georgia, 542. And ill all of the cases that fall under this, what i would call category is about a attorney who formerly prosecuted a defendant in i guess the same type of case are the same case or similar charges. And that would be why of course, were using the courts found that disqualification would be necessary because of the Relations Kinship that existed between a former client
but i want to start by looking at the bigger picture and ask why we absolutely need to hold everyone involved in this gargantuan anti-democratic efforts to account. it s bad enough that it happened. and but for a few good people doing the right thing at the right time, it could have succeeded. but this is not a past tense discussion. this crime against democracy remains in progress. donald trump is still lying about the election results. he is now attacking, on a daily and sometimes hourly basis, jack smith, prosecutors across the country, the men and women of the fbi, and the justice department. federal judges, the whole united states government, and the rule of law and the republicans in congress who could have washed their hands of trump, after he lost, we ll, take kevin mccarthy, who, in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, laid the blame squarely and accurately with donald trump. that same guy, in order to win over trump s insurrectionist supporters in congress, agr
donald trump. that same guy, in order to win over trump s insurrectionist supporters in congress, agreed to a series of concessions, including the so-called weaponization of government subcommittee, which is, itself, the weaponization of government. donald trump held a fund-raiser for january 6th felons at his golf club three weeks ago. the michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson, said on this program last night, that the threats posed by election denier still persists, and noted the election denier that she beat out the ballot box was rewarded with a job as the head of michigan s republican party. so, yeah, the repercussions of donald trump s lie about the 2020 election have a long tale, all the way to the present day. it s not about making trump and his allies pay for the past. it is about making sure this does not happen again in the future. and to make that case, the only person i wanted to talk to was congressman jamie raskin. he s the ranking member of the house ove