Jon Lovett

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,

Not only was this usurping Congress and the role of the courts and what Congress has assigned to the courts, but it would mean that these prosecutions could ultimately be in jeopardy.

They were fighting and fighting and fighting.

It seems like they've, as of today, as of this recording, basically given up the fight.

It does seem like a genuine victory for the federal courts over the Trump administration.

Leah, before we go, one last question.

Donald Trump over the weekend said that he was happy that Robert Mueller had died.

He said good because he didn't like him.

Do you ever allow yourself to root for the death of people that you don't like?

Or do you know how bad that is for the human soul?

Where are you at?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Death isn't justice.