Appellate court. By merely deciding to do this, though, the court has essentially upended the attempt to hold donald trump accountable for his actions to subvert democracy. In fact, the court may have ended that attempt entirely. This decision is also certain to reshape the 2024 president ial race, and it will likely play a Determinative Role in its outcome. As much as the significance of this ruling is already apparent, the full consequences here hinge on the timing. In it the Supreme Court said it would hear Oral Arguments in the case the week of april 22 nd. Now, april 22nd is not close to today, and well get into exactly why exactly the court didnt choose a date a lot sooner than that, but april 22nd also on its face sort of seems pretty far from the november election. Its not. Because when you start crunching the numbers and looking at how a trial could actually time out after the Supreme Court makes its decision here, the window in which trump could face trial, the window of that
When we leave he gives us a hard. There you go. Thanks, steve. It means a lot. Wisdom borne of age. And friends born of a hes a mud duck. We are so happy that matt found his flock. Im so grateful that my colleague megan found this story, that mauro produce it and then boyd shared. It and please remember, it costs absolutely nothing to be kind, and i can assure you any nhl team owner that i know, ill be emailing you the segment tonight. You sure as hell better stand this man some cool gear. With that i wish you a good night. From all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Today the Supreme Court made a momentous decision, one that has significant implications for the rule of law in this country. At five pm eastern, this afternoon, the Supreme Court agreed to take up former President Trumps claims of president ial immunity. These are not credible claims. That has been thoroughly litigated in District Court and federal Appellate Court. By nearl
The public absolutely needs to know how and why the leading nation s federal law enforcement agency played such a determinative role in presidential politics. the pair is seeking documents mentioning donald trump, the clintons, huma abedin, anthony weiner, breitbart and the alt-right. we ll take this apart. lawyer of me requires look at motive and merits of this lawsuit. we ll start with motive. okay. they made this filing request on december 2nd. typically they get 20 days to produce. they want it expedited. conventional wisdom say they want it expedited because they have only two month before donald trump takes office. what do you think that expeditedness has to do with real reason for this. it is funny, i thought it was coming from conservative groups interested more in what the fbi was doing in terms of making deals with hillary, whatever. in fact, comes from a bunch of liberals who i think their