a power grab, it threatens the independence of the judiciary. the de-age who brought that lawsuit were also prescient about how it would be worked. how it would be used, cobb county district attorney s curtly s serving the, a sherrie boston, one of the prosecutors who brought the lawsuit. she is overtly warning, that pro trump republicans would use this law to try to take out fani willis, and and the trump prosecution. in fact, georgia republicans are already promising that that s what they were going to try to do, as of october 1st. as we watch the trump plane sit on the tarmac and get ready to take off the head back to new jersey, i want to bring another conversation, clark cutting him. who is a professor of law georgia state university, college of law professor cunningham, thanks very much for joining us tonight on this historic night, both in georgia and the united states. glad to be with you this evening. let me ask you about what i just described, my understanding, about sb 9
effort to remove fani willis from her job as prosecutor right as this thing could be going to trial. now, i should note, this new power to remove prosecutors is already being challenged in court in georgia. earlier this month, a bipartisan group of dea from different georgia counties filed a lawsuit, saying this is a power grab, it threatens the independence of the judiciary. the de-age who brought that lawsuit were also prescient about how it would be worked. how it would be used, cobb county district attorney s curtly s serving the, a sherrie boston, one of the prosecutors who brought the lawsuit. she is overtly warning, that pro trump republicans would use this law to try to take out fani willis, and and the trump prosecution. in fact, georgia republicans are already promising that that s what they were going to try to do, as of october 1st. as we watch the trump plane sit on the tarmac and get ready to take off the head back to new jersey, i want to bring another
happening in the midwest, the big airlines only have about five or six hundred planes each and if they re sit only the ground at chicago, it s going to cause backups even in warm weather cities like miami or los angeles. even last night, my producer had trouble flying from kansas city back to los angeles. he got in late last night but his brother was delayed for more than 24 hours. looking at the total numbers, across the country, 2,000 flights have been cancelled. more than 3,000 flights delayed. the biggest die lays and cancellations are happening at chicago o hare because the planes all have to be dei.c.eed but there d-door iced and also something i ale job almosts in dallas, houston, denver, detroit, cannings city, and oklahoma city. so if you re flying, call ahead. and because of the flier s bill of rights more often that nobody airlines will preemtestifily cancel flights rather than take the chance of having a plane sit
flights on saturday, several hundred on sunday, and the focus has been on the 737 300s that might have cracking. any know that they saw significant cracking on that plane that made the emergency landing on friday in yuma. the question is whether other planes might have similar types of issues underneath what s called a lap joint, that is a joint when the different plates of metal on top of the plane sit on top of each other. underneath one of the plates they found the significant amount of cracking. pre-existing cracking prior to the hole being ripped open on friday night. so southwest has now inspected and released 57 planes out of 79. 57 have now gone back into service, given a clean bill of health. they say three planes were found to have small cracks on the fuselage, so they will have to fix those. but then the question becomes might there be other planes beyond these that were designed in the same way or that had similar numbers of cycles, that is a takeoff and a landing.
fines associated with it up to $27,500 per passenger. so if an airline lets a plane sit on the ground for longer than three hours, they can be looking at literally millions of dollars in fines, and that has had, it seems a positive effect. but as you just heard, that rule does not apply to foreign carrier, and that s where the problem has been over the past few days. so, if i were a passenger on that flight, and i was sitting on the tarmac for 11 hours, do i have any recourse? anything ki di can do? the short answer is probably not. cafe pacific is in the middle of a well-deserved public disaster and offering compensation to the people on the plane and getting free tickets and the like, but it is, you know, all about you are likely to get. yes, it is possible that you could file a lawsuit, but you are likely to be tied up in