Jon Lovett

He's trying to get the Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a restrictive voter ID bill to require Americans to provide proof of citizenship.

At the moment, it seems unlikely that the bill can pass Congress.

It's even unlikely.

As of today, Trump was trying to get some of the funding measures tied to the SAVE Act, trying to get everything all together.

The Senate leaders are throwing cold water on that because there aren't the votes to pass this.

One part of the contention has been around what this would do to, I believe it's pronounced women, women who are married.

Now, on one side, they say, well, there are Democrats are spreading misinformation about this.

On the other, it's truly not clear what happens to women whose birth certificates and legal name are not the same because they got married.

What actually happens if this becomes law?

And what would be the odds that it would face a lot of legal hurdles to actually going into effect?

Yeah, yeah.

Speaking of people who are not being liked, I wanted to talk to you about this story.

So last week, and you talked about this a bit on Strict Scrutiny, a federal Judge Biden appointee absolutely tore into some DOJ attorneys in New Jersey in a courtroom, basically had a Trump lawyer removed from court, threatened to have him dragged out of the court

then gave that lawyer a second opportunity to leave on his own volition, an opportunity he took.

What happened and is it now resolved because of what took place today?

Yeah, just so people understand, basically, if the role of U.S.

attorney is vacant, because it's a confirmable Senate confirmable position, the law says that if it's open, there can only be a temporary appointment by the administration for so long before the judges appoint

someone in their stead because there are real powers that are associated with job and they have to go somewhere and you have to know who that person is.

And Trump was trying to get around this by kind of continuously appointing temporary people.

And the fear would be that those prosecutions, uh,