and trump s was in contrast, not. it s a really lousy fouling. i don t think supreme court is going to hear the case. i think, as you are saying, the supreme court gets 1000 detain thousand cases a year, and here is about 65. the supreme court is really the big leagues, you can t afford a false move when you re making a file into the supreme court. the document that trump filed today is written by lawyers who people are not ready for this kind of filing. it s riddled with loose language, and absurd claims. it s kind of surprising that trump couldn t get a supreme court lawyer to file this document for. him he is a former president. but, it s not that surprising when you look at his actual claims. with this filing is all about, for, viewers basically congress is trying to get information about what trump was doing on
district court who heard it for, and then the appeals. court no. not a single new thing. now, there is some new rhetoric in here. there s rhetoric in which they say trump is more than an ordinary citizen. the document pretends, essentially, that he is still the president. maybe these folks who filed this, believe. but he s not the president. the thing about living in a democracy, once you re out of office, you earn ordinary person. yes, you are the president at one point and you did have a special zone of privacy around you, for all sorts of good reason, but afterwards, you are not. another thing that s striking, lawrence, as a supreme court lawyer, if i were representing trump, the first thing i would do is say, people perceive me, or my client, as all about. delay whether these lawyers do, they wait until the last minute to father document. the very last day that the court gave them to file, instead of filing a little bit
the electoral college vote to those who organized or encourage the mob attack on the capitol. to decline the outset to investigate would be an appeasement, pure and, simple and appeasing bullies in wrongdoers only encourages more of the same. leading off our discussion tonight, msnbc contributor. neil, one is the supreme court case, we turn to you. this is a trump legal filing that, was filed today. i didn t quote any of it, because it s like all trump legal filing, such a peculiar. document with the committee filed with the court, made enough sense to me to present to the audience. i leave it to you, neil, to tell us what we need to know about the trump filing and with the supreme court might choose to do. yes, lawrence, i think you re. right congress is filing today was an ordinary plan english.
earlier, saying look we re on the ball, we want this, we think these are strong legal claims, this isn t about delay. that s why we re filing. quickly nope, not these folks. not on trump. that delay tells you all you need to know about what this document, that there filed today is about. it s just about trying to stall this thing as long as they can. so, neil, in a normal case, one that doesn t involve the president of the united states instead of normal, let s say one that doesn t involve the former president, i think we can easily predict a faulty filing like this coming after very solidly reasoned written opinions in the lower courts, would be summarily rejected by the supreme court. and, the only thing that would come out is simply one sentence that would emerge from the court saying, that it is denied. meaning the application that would be heard of the supreme
court. the committee is asking the supreme court to make a quick decision on an appeal, to the supreme court filed by don trump today. seeking to overturn a unanimous opinion of the federal court of appeals that denied donald trump s attempt to prevent the national archives from handing over documents from the trump white house to the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the first decision, the supreme court has to make, and possibly the only decision, is whether to hear the case at all. most appeals filed with the united states supreme court are rejected without a word of explanation from the court. the supreme court only years appeals cases in which at least four justices decides it if the case is worthy of hearing in the supreme court. the committee is asking the supreme court to reject the trump request for a hearing, and is asking the supreme court