All those black bars on the pages really brings back memories. This, for me, forever is going to be the sense memory of the donald j. Trump administration. Redacted, redacted, redacted. What this is is a 20page long order from the top judge in the federal court in d. C. , chief judge barrel howell, judge howell issued this order in late august. She only made it public today. As i show you, a bunch is blacked out. But what we can see in the parts that arent blacked out is sort of show stopping. What this document reveals is that federal prosecutors at the u. S. Department of justice have been actively investigating what the judge describes here as a, quote, briberyforpardon scheme, a quote, secret lobbying scheme and bribery conspiracy by which some number of people were suspected of arranging bribes to the president. In the form of, quote, substantial political contributions. The substantial political contributions would be the bribe. The official act they wanted from the president in
Constitutional lawyer and law professor in his own right. He is also, as a member of congress, on the judiciary committee. And tonight with things getting slightly nutty in the republican effort to somehow try to use the courts to overturn the president ial election and install the loser instead of the winner of that election as the next president , we called congressman raskin tonight on short notice to help us with some of these latest developments here. I will tell you were going to get into this in detail but those latest developments involve, among other things, the fbi turning up at the office of the Texas Attorney general to serve a federal subpoena on him. The Texas Attorney general is the guy who has brought this case to the u. S. Supreme court to try to overthrow the election on the president s behalf. Turns out dude has some has his own very serious legal problems back home, and his personal legal problems and this Supreme Court case hes waging on behalf of the president , t
All right. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Im happy to have you here. Theres a lot of news going on right now. I will tell you its like the good old days or the bad old days. Its like the old days. What we had planned for this hour of this show has been shredded and reinvented several times this evening, including a couple of times just in the past couple of hours. It has been a day. But thats only because there is lots to get to and lots going on. Congressman jamie raskin is going to be joining us tonight. He is an accomplished constitutional lawyer and law professor in his own right. He is also, as a member of congress, on the judiciary committee. And tonight with things getting slightly nutty in the republican effort to somehow try to use the courts to overturn the president ial election and install the loser instead of the winner of that election as the next president , we called congressman raskin tonight on short notice to help us with some of these latest develop
President ial election and install the loser, instead of the winner of that election as the next president , we called congressman raskin tonight on short notice to help us with some of these latest developments here. I will tell you, were going to get into this in detail, but those latest developments involve, among other things, the fbi turning up at the office of the Texas Attorney general to serve a federal subpoena on him. The Texas Attorney general is the guy who has brought this case to the u. S. Supreme court to try to overthrow the election on the president s behalf. Turns out, dude has his own very serious legal problems back home, and his personal legal problems and this Supreme Court case hes waging on behalf of the president , those two things may be related, like, related closely enough that, for health reasons, perhaps, those two kissing cousins should not be allowed to get together and reproduce. As i said, we will have more on that coming up in just a moment. We will a
What that possibility is that we may hear from the Supreme Court by the end of the day. How it expects to proceed, whether they will take up the case or not. Now, texas and 18 other states are petitioning the Supreme Court to throw out the results of the election in pennsylvania, georgia, michigan and wisconsin. The attorney attorney general ken paxton arguing the actions of those states and expanding mass mailin balloting harmed texas voters. Listen here. My voters are now disenfranchised in a National Election where other states didnt follow state law. This case, these states had different rules in different counties favoring one candidate over another. We dont know now how credible those mailin ballots were. Paxton was here at the white house for lunch as were the attorneys general of ten other states that have joined texas in that case. It was not expected that the case would have been a topic of conversation today because this meeting was planned long before the Texas Attorney gen