government says while the qatari investment company was considering the potential investment into that real estate development owned by codefendant fred davies, robert menendez made multiple public statements supporting the government of qatar. menendez provided davies with the statements so that davies code share them with qatari investors and qatari government officials associated with the investment company. according to new superseding indictment in the weeks davies sent menendez via an encrypted messaging application photographs of a computer monitor depicting luxury wristwatches with prices ranging from $9,990 to $23,900 and asked menendez how about one of these. harry litman is back with us. harry, this superseding indictment, it s one of those things that just makes the indictment twice as bad.
for questions next week in oral argument by the judges about amicus briefs filed in the case by third parties, including one that says donald trump has no right to appeal judge chutkan s denial of immunity until after the trial. so it is possible that donald trump s appeal of this absolute immunity claim could be short-circuited by the appeals court if they agree with that amicus brief, which they find important enough to have warned the lawyers that they are going to discuss it in oral argument next tuesday. here is the immunitylaim. that donald trump s lawyers have made in their written brief to the appeals court. no president, current or former, may be criminally prosecuted for his official act unless he is first impeached and convicted by the senate. that claim defies the history
they can also start by reading chapter two of the book the second founding. it s called toward equality. it s a single chapter on, how do these parts of the 14th amendment come about? they can read that in 20 minutes. then they can go spend hours on the great debates of 1866. and they should especially learn the speeches by john bingham, it was bingham who voiced that quote i use the other day, put them in terror of their laws. that was bingham, and by the way, bingham was an anti slavery genuine abolitionist republican from eastern ohio. almost over to pittsburgh. he never made it into the senate or ran for the presidency but he s one of the great unsung heroes of american history. he authored section one, and he had a lot to do with author-ing section three of the 14th amendment. and if you re giving me a little time on section three
if he continues, in general meadows has always had the most impressive set of lawyers, and paul clement is a name that is eye-popping in the supreme court. one of the issues that one of the trump lawyers are raising is this constitutional principle that they have invented that the a president who has been acquitted by the senate in an impeachment trial cannot be charged with crimes having anything to do with that impeachment trial. let s listen to mitch mcconnell s opinion of that. president trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office. as an ordinary citizen. unless the statute of limitations has run, still liable for everything he did while in office. didn t get away with anything. yet. yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country.
circuits to begin with. en banc usually happens in this circuit in two weeks. just a handful of carrots cases will be in spring in the fall and so i suppose from one point of view it s advantageous. there would be delay involved, but the judges on the court will be actively communicating with each other to decide if this is an issue of magnitude that requires one of these rare en banc decisions. i think it s unlikely. particularly with a 30 decision offered by the judge power, there would be much movement the tightness one on. and joyce, if it doesn t go to the full appeals court, does mark meadows then try to go to the supreme court? i think he does. he s brought on new lawyers tonight, experienced supreme. court practitioners, and if en banc is denied, his time to to