that does it for us here on the beat with ari melber joy reid picks it up next. tonight on the reidout under new york state law, it is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud and intent to conceal another crime. my lawyers came to me and said there s nothing here. they re not saying what you did. the defendant repeatedly made false statements on new york business records he also caused others to make false statements trump is still lying as local prosecutors pursue criminal charges against him doing the work that the doj should have been doing all along. despite warnings to refrain from inciting violence, trump is still attacking d.a. bragg the judge juan merchan and their families big breakthrough in wisconsin. but the challenge to democracy remains very real with republicans pushing minority rule and we begin with defendant donald j. trump, back at his mar-a-lago home after facing his first taste of the criminal justice system and
Search his maralago estate if trump continued to refuse to hand over classified documents. We begin tonight with the first televised hearing in fani willis criminal case against former President Trump in georgia. Im Jason Johnson in tonight for joy reid. The trial will be televised and is coming very soon. Today, we have a taste of whats to come. Fulton county Superior Court judge scott mcafee said he would allow Kenneth Chesebro to sever his case from Sidney Powell. Chesebro and powell are among the 19 defendants in the georgia racketeering case. They have both asked for speedy trials. Chesebro is accused of being the, quote, architect of the Trump Elector scheme while Sidney Powell is facing a slew of charges that include an effort to improperly access Voting Machines in rural coffee county, georgia. The defendant said their cases were different and they wanted to be tried separately. Prosecutors response, that aint the way this works. So weve heard a lot from both defendants about t
janet will become a wisconsin supreme court justice, handing liberals the majority on that court for the first time in 15 years it is a big deal and a huge relief for wisconsin voters who are essentially held captive by a gerrymandered republican led legislature stripped the governor of his powers this is just how motivating reproductive rights truly are. wisconsin voters backed protasaiwicz they elected a republican for a state senate seat that was up for grabs. effectively handing republicans the super majority why does this matter because the person who won that state senate race says he would consider impeaching protasiewicz
race they ve won since 2018. so they ve been building majorities they ve been building strength and i think this one became a national focus because it actually did shift the court from a 4/3 conservative majority to a 4/3 liberal majority. i do think that there is a shift going on in wisconsin. and it has a couple of factors in play. first and foremost, you talk about the reproductive rights issues you re right about women in the suburbs of milwaukee, an area that was traditionally just a tremendously powerful vote generating area for the republicans, they are starting to lose numbers. in wolworth county, historically very republican county, protasiewicz got 45% of the vote that s striking. that s amazing that s up at the levels that obama got at his very best in 2008 so, that s a big deal there. but then the other thing i would
throw in the mix here is while we re talking about women, we should also talk about young people as a group. these reproductive rights issues and also these gerrymandering issues have real resonance with young voters and there were lines of young voters in madison, in o claire, in green bay around the state and so i do think there s a shift going on and if you can kind of generate the level of support that protasiewicz got in a non-partisan, off year, spring election on one of the rainiest, stormiest nights wisconsin had in a long time yeah. then could you do that in november of 2024 i think you could. yeah. and i would argue that for democrats nationally, guns and reproductive rights and i would throw in lgbtq rights and protecting history, those are winning issues republicans think they re winning issues for them. they are 100% wrong. john nichols, thank you very much. up next, another win for progressive last night this time