On our Political Scene podcast, Susan Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss Donald Trump’s argument for Presidential immunity with the former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal. nyer.cm/WJ0qeee

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1. Patrick Commecy

POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in…

TONIGHT: Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 and Neal Katyal join Lawrence O'Donnell on The #LastWord . Tune in!

‘THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT’ by Taylor Swift officially becomes the first album in Spotify history to earn 1 BILLION streams in a week.

.Liz Cheney: 'I think it's crucially important that they rule quickly and decisively. That no circumstance under which a President's actions would be protected by immunity exists here. No president can attempt to do what Donald Trump did and enjoy immunity for that.'

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Solicitor General Prelogar delivers another brilliant oral argument before SCOTUS, even getting C Barrett to suggest EMTALA should overrule Idaho's near-total abortion ban. It's personal for her - she's a Boise native, and I could hear it in her voice today.
Neal Katyal

If you care about justice in any sense of the word, it's worth your time to read the intro to 'Brief for Respondent in Support of Petitioner' in Glossip v. Oklahoma.
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TONIGHT: Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 and Neal Katyal join Lawrence O'Donnell on The #LastWord . Tune in!

Very very ominous for a judge to say Trump’s lawyer has lost all credibility with the court.

So great. Darryl is the best.

In opening statements in Manhattan today, the prosecution argued that Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election -- Trump's lawyers said he did nothing wrong.

Stephanie Ruhle asks Neal Katyal for his take on the opening statements in Manhattan: 'a poor start' for the Trump team.

There's some wild stuff in this newly unsealed (but heavily redacted) FBI interview from a high-level Trump-world person related to the classified docs investigation.

For example: the witness was afraid to have the interview recorded for fear of reprisal storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

As southpaw notes: 'A direct violation of the court’s gag order.'⬇️

Within 24hrs of Tues contempt hearing

An expert analysis just published on the 10 (now 11) alleged gag order violations and high likelihood Trump will be found in contempt of court: justsecurity.org/94878/why-trum…

Kelsi is one of the rare members of the elite #SCOTUS bar that measures her success by the cases she gets the Court to not take. But when a case is heard on the merits, she is also among the best there, too.