Says that the president has the First Amendment right to speech. Yes. Even the First Amendment right to lie. Absolutely. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech. Its criminalizing speech. Why the randomly incised judge is bad news for the defendant. The complicated calendar of republican front runner facing three criminal trials and congressman jamie raskin on jack smiths decision to charge civil rights law used to prosecute kkk violence. Check out detroit. Check out when all in starts, right now. Good in a few new york. Im chris hayes. For the third time in four months, donald trump will be arrested and arraigned tomorrow. And a federal courthouse in washington, d. C. Hes got to be getting used to it by now. He will stand for a federal magistrate judge. He will enter a plea as he has done in the last two cases. In this new Criminal Case laid out against him for attempting to steal the 2020 election. Tomorrow he will be returning to the scene of that crime, as laid out in t
Third arrest and arraignment, the easy answer for the ex president s defense. The indictment specifically says that the president has the First Amendment right to speech. He even has a First Amendment right to lie. Its right here, this indictment is causing conduct not speech. And then, why the randomly assigned judge is bad news for the defendant. The complicated calendar of a republican front runner facing three criminal trials. And congressman jamie raskin on jack smiths decision to charge vil ghts law used to prosecute kkk violence. Check out detroit, check out philadelphia, check out atlanta. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. But the third time in four months, donald trump will be arrested and arraigned tomorrow at the federal courthouse in washington d. C. Has got to be getting used to it by now. He will stand before a Magistrate Judge and enter a plea. As hes done in the last two cases. In the new Criminal Case laid out against him or attempting to steal the 2020 elect
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conspiracy s conduct. in this one section of the damning indictment, you have something that just can t have had any purpose other than to be fraudulent. there is no defensible first amendment law where you can say well, they were just speaking. no, they were clearly not. they did something. they swore to something that was false, and then try to get the false statement entered as true. they tried to defraud the government. the facts are not in dispute. it was plainly a crime. it has been not one to all of us in an intuitive world stance, not new technical way, but we know this was wrong and violated something deep and profound. and there are other parts of the night monthly deal with the lies that trump used, and how he views those lies in the furtherance of conspiracy. but when smith and his team regularly lay out is that this was a crime. it was a vast criminal conspiracy, a multi pronged
they swore to something that was false, and then try to get the false statement entered as true. they tried to defraud the government. the facts are not in dispute. it was plainly a crime. it has been not one to all of us in an intuitive world stance, not new technical way, but we know this was wrong and violated something deep and profound. and there are other parts of the night monthly deal with the lies that trump used, and how he views those lies in the furtherance of conspiracy. but when smith and his team regularly lay out is that this was a crime. it was a vast criminal conspiracy, a multi pronged effort to stay in power, to steal the election, which culminated in the january six attempted coup, and now sets up, in the words of legal scholar rick hassan, the most important case in our nation s history. we catherine is professor of law in political science. you can read that piece on the importance of the trial in slate. com. danya perry is a former deputy attorney general, yeste