january six committee. and i just think it s a risk. because what if he loses? what is he supposed to say? the supreme court are bunch of traders? these are the people he appointed. of course, [laughs] , of course that s exactly what you do. john, listen, tara really just said how i feel. is it because it s such a small carve out here, right? is it our he and his attorneys pointing to this one little thing that they could win, so they at least can say that they have a win, even though it is it seems incremental, or, you know, it does not really matter that much? you get my point? i do, i do. and while it is not always clear what trump is doing, it s always clear he s looking for delay. this will certainly assure some delay in. how long, it s unpredictable. clarence thomas the circuit who it s his circuit, as a member the supreme court to take jurisdiction over. he took the case right and. he could ve sat on it, done nothing. but he apparently thinks it is not a big
circuit didn t have the jurisdiction to act when it did. and now they want the supreme court to step in. notably, this request from trump s team goes directly to justice clarence thomas. but that is actually because he oversees all petitions that come in from the 11th circuit. it is likely here that justice thomas will refer this to the full court to decide this issue. but anderson, we have seen trump appeal to the supreme court several times in the next few years, with little success. it was just earlier this year that the justices allowed the january 6th select committee to gain access to the white house record, notably justice thomas dissented from that. and back in 2020, they ruled that they could not block his financial documents from prosecutors in new york. so this was filed as an emergency order, the justices could potentially rule pretty quickly after the doj response to this early next week on tuesday. what does it mean for the justice departments investigation, t
clean and out. they have a very strong backing of at least three person panel at this point. john dean, david urban, thank you so much. the supreme court he section of the voting rights act. the case concerned how alabama re-drew its congressional map. deluded the power of black voters in the state. but recall in 2013 invalidated another section of the law and shelby county, alabama. eric holder, who was attorney general at the time, joins us now. he s the author of our unfinished march: the violent past, an imperiled future of the vote, a history, a crisis, a plan. thank you for being with us. i want to get to this key voting rights case in just a second. you heard the panel discuss the request from former president trump to get the supreme court involved in this classified documents case. any reaction to that? yeah. i think it s just a delay and distract move, as was indicated. it s not a substantive appeal.
presidents and most ex presidents are not like this ex president. in a moment what our legal panel makes the move will be joined as well eric holder, was first cnn correspondent jessica schneider. on exactly what the former president s lawyers are asking for and perhaps significantly what justice they re asking. just go what more do we know about with the former president is seeking from the court? right now they father s day marginally requests at the courts understand. even though they waited almost two weeks after the 11th circuit ruled on this. and now we are finding out of the justice department has one more week to file its response. so trump s team here, they are asking for a very limited relief. basically what they want is a special master to get access to these 100 classified documents that he s been blocked from reviewing ever since the 11th circuit ruled. and crucially here, if the special master regains access that would mean that trump s legal team would also see these c
solicitor general. what is alabama asking the high court? for sure and you think they ll get what they want? it s not totally clear to me what they re asking for. i suppose what they re trying to do is get the voting rights act interpreted and such a way that what they did, which is inconsistent with long-standing precedent, that what they did is somehow not violated of the [inaudible] i m afraid we lost the connection with former attorney general eric holder. we ll continue to try to get in touch with him. we ll try to actually get in touch with them now, and will try to get back, talking about a case that was argued we can get a. back up next, senator candidate herschel walker banning abortion with quote no exception in my mind, except allegedly for that time,