you know, the jury does get kind of rare opportunity to get to know the defendant a little bit more. what do you think they ve learned about alex murdaugh so far? i think that the jury sees him for pretty much exactly what he is. i mean, i don t know him personally, but he is a lawyer. he s a tough lawyer. he comes from a family of litigators. i think that they recognize that he understands what this whole game is. and he knows exactly which buttons he has to push, whether he s effective in pushing them or not is hard to say, but you can hear from his cross examination that he takes every opportunity when the prosecutor asks a little bit of an open question and remember that on cross examination, the personing it person doing the cross examination is allowed to treat the witness as a hostile witness. so they are allowed to ask
elections is considering the removal of county election officials, who without evidence of irregularities refused to certify the 2022 midterm results. after more than two years of unabashed election denialism, the cavalry is coming to combat the big lie at the state level, which if you like democracy s highly anticipated and also probably very good news. joining us now to help us figure out whether it is indeed good news is marc elias, voting rights attorney and founder of democracy docket. thank you for making the time. how heartened are you by these measures that are being announced at the state level across the country? i think that they are important but i don t want to get ahead of ourselves. as you say, we have been having election denialism for two years, and at each stage, we have thought that it would get better. after donald trump loses, it will get better. after he litigators his 65 cases and loses them, it will get better. certainly after republicans win this, the violent
silence, basically. for sure. alex murdaugh, a lawyer himself, worked at his family s law firm, pmped, since he graduated law school back in 1994. mike hemlepp, justin bamburg, joe mccullough, and eric bland are all local litigators. all four of you graduated from the university of south carolina school of law, correct? yes. because alex murdaugh also graduated from the same school. randy and i graduated together. his brother. yes, his brother. growing up, the murdaughs even over in bamberg county, people knew who they were. randi, i have stories i ll tell you. i was talking to a lawyer here in town who said his old law partner, who was a big political figure here in town, got a call one day from old buster. buster is the nickname of alex murdaugh s grandfather, a solicitor who served for 46 years.