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Charged because of testimony or treated in a certain way because of what was claimed, does that all come into question now absolutely. i think that, if that is the case and we end up in that situation, it behooves the chief prosecutor in that jurisdiction to demand a review of all of the cases that these officers have touched because from a show of good faith, from a place of transparency, it should not take an appeals court the make that decision when you as a prosecutor have access to those files and records an those cases because you can do it and it s been done. i was a part of the d.a. s office here when we found out there was a cop who for 23 years had been dealing in improper ways and ultimately a review of over 700 of his cases resulted in 23 different convictions being exonerated the prosecutor can do it or it can come from defense attorneys ....
Make you today s proceedings sure. i think there s lot of religious accommodation cases that are really easy. cases where someone wants to wear a head scarf because of their faith and the employee should win almost all the time in those cases there are cases where someone works for a big employer where they have lots of other employees who can pick up the slack if they need to take some time off for their faith the employee should win in nearly all of those cases as well there s two types of cases that i think are really hard. one is a case like this one where you have just a few employees. so you have an enormous burden put on the other workers if one has to step away and in the cases that worry me the most is what happens if you have an employee who s religion requires them to deminnish the rights of another worker you have a religious worker who ....
Enough to accommodate his wishes justice kavanaugh raised concerns about what this could look like inside your workplace. you re told in effect you don t get sunday off even though you re religious the other guy gets sunday off because he s religious but his religion gives him a little more benefit there. joining us now, nbc senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett, who s been following this case. also with us, the author of that vox story, senior vox correspondent. laura, walk us through what we heard in these arguments today this is interesting because at first glance, you might think this is a court that would be very sympathetic you have somebody that shouldn t be forced between their faith and job. but you dig deeper and see justices expressing hesitation that maybe this is not the best case if they re going to make new law. ....
Was one of the only ways they would be able to deliver on this policy and to be sure, chris, this is probably the only way that president biden will be able to deliver anything remotely comprehensive on childcare on this issue that is so fundamental, not just to our country as the president said, but also to democrats as they look toward 2024 thank you for that. now we have to move to some breaking news. coming out of missouri 84-year-old andrew luster is ch charged with the shooting of a 16-year-old. he has just surrendered and is in custody antonia has been covering the case charles coleman is back with us. people seemed not to know where he was for a while we re waiting to hear more from jail officials but what more do we know for hours this morning, community members and the family were continuing to ask why hadn t lester been booked. ....
Who are seeking deals, but to answer your question, it absolutely would open the door and i would anticipate a slew of different appeals of anything that these police officers have touched. even if there isn t a conviction, to come into play and be put before the court seeking to have those convictions reverse. thank you and a postal worker didn t want to work on sunday because of his religion. well, it just got to the supreme court. how that case could impact workers everywhere you re watching chris jansing reportons ly on msnbc. ....