Ex-MSNBC Legal Analyst Has A Prediction For Trump, And It Involves 'The C-Word'
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Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, weighed in on the administration's ongoing legal clash over the recent deportations of immigrants to El Salvador.
Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor and ex-MSNBC legal analyst, believes President Donald Trump and his Department of Justice will face criminal contempt charges over their defiance of U.S District Judge James E. Boasberg’s orders to halt recent deportations.
Trump invoked an 18th century wartime act last week to deport hundreds of immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, ignoring a verbal order from Boasberg. He has since called for the judge, whom the White House called a “Democrat activist,” to be impeached.
On “The Dean Obeidallah Show” Thursday, Kirschner weighed the potential consequences.
“I was a prosecutor for 30 years,” he told the SiriusXM radio host. “You don’t write in pleadings or say in court, things like, ‘Judge, we don’t believe the information you’re looking for is relevant.’ Guess whose determination that is, sport? Not yours! The judge’s!”
“We are going to see the C-word uttered very soon — contempt,” Kirschner continued. “It will start as criminal contempt. It will very likely morph, it will start as civil contempt that will very likely morph into criminal contempt.”
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