Eric Holder
Appearances
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
Glad to be here with you, Rachel.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
Yeah, I've not had a chance to read thoroughly the opinion, but I think you can boil it down, and people, as lawyers do, we can start to parse words here and there. But I think what the court is essentially saying is that, look, you admit that you made a mistake.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
You took this guy without due process, placed him in a detention facility in El Salvador, and are now saying that you can't get him back. That is unacceptable. that this man is entitled to due process. A determination has to be made as to whether or not he can be deported from the United States.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
And through due process, that is going through the court system, he has to have the ability to put forth any arguments that he has. And then a judge is going to have to make a determination. I think that is the clear input. That's a clear... That's the obvious thing that the Supreme Court is saying. The question is going to be now, how will the Trump administration react to that?
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
The court talks about facilitating. How are they going to interpret that? Are they going to do it over the course of the next couple of days, the next month? And I wouldn't be surprised if we end up yet with another proceeding before the district court saying the Supreme Court said the client had to be brought back. He's not here. We demand to have him brought back as soon as is possible.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
And let's cut right through this. This is disgusting. It's shameful. It's inconsistent with the rule of law. And it's also inconsistent with who we say we are as a nation. And every American citizen, every inhabitant of this country should be offended by what this administration is doing. But beyond that. every citizen in this country ought to be afraid.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
Because the reality is, if they are successful in doing this to immigrants, and now they're doing things against American citizens, as you talked about before, who criticized the president, it won't be too long. And the president himself has said he had no objections to taking convicted criminals and putting them in the same jail in El Salvador. There is—
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
There's a treadmill that we're potentially getting on here that could result in the erosion of rights for American citizens. Now, I'm not saying that's the only reason that we should be concerned about this. People who are in this country deserve the ability to go before courts and have courts make determinations about whether they can stay, whether they should leave, how they should be treated.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
And this administration wants to take upon itself to the derogation of the ability of the courts and certainly of the legislative branch, the ability to decide everything. This is how you get authoritarianism. This is remarkably similar to kind of what happened in Europe in the 30s.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
It's consistent with what we saw happen in Hungary and in Turkey in later days over the course of the last 10, 15, 20 years. And that's not a path that this country wants to go down. And I want people to understand this. If you don't stand up and fight now, If you don't take a position now, it's going to be too late. We can't say we can wait just a little longer. No, no.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration now.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
Yeah. Some are doing, I think, the right thing. Some are being timid. Some are showing themselves to be cowards. Some are making business determinations when they ought to be making legal decisions or putting into their decision-making a sense of moral obligation. And I've been disappointed. by some in the legal profession about the ways in which they have interacted with this administration.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
You can't make deals with these folks. This is an attack on the rule of law. They want to go after people who are their critics. They want to go after people who would defend those people, that is, the lawyers. They want to have a Justice Department that fires lawyers who tell the truth to judges. They want to then go after the judges themselves. This is all part of a piece.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
It's all about the erosion of the rule of law so that Donald Trump will have the ability to have authoritarian powers in this nation. This is the person who the founders try to put a system in place to prevent from coming to power. And unless we as lawyers stand up, joined by the judiciary, and somehow, somehow get Congress to
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
find out that it has power within our system of government, we will lose that which defines this nation, that which makes this nation exceptional. That is really what is at stake. But you have to get granular. And every lawyer, I think, has to ask him or herself, every law firm has to ask itself, where do we stand? You know, it was an easy thing.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
after George Floyd was murdered, when we had a videotape of a black man with a cop with his knee on that man's throat as he was pleading for his life. It was an easy thing at that point, as horrible as that was, an easy thing to come and say that we are against that, we are for the rule of law, people like that cop need to be held accountable. Now it's not so easy. Now it's now it's difficult.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
And as Tom Paine said, you know, this is not the day of the Sunshine Patriot. Oh, this is the day of the Sunshine Patriot. We have to make sure that when it gets tough, we're prepared to do the difficult things.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
Some, some, unfortunately, I think too many have made the determination that they're not willing to make the necessary sacrifices for the very system that has sustained them, not only economically, but given them privileges that we as lawyers have. It is our responsibility to stand up for the rule of law.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
I don't know what to say.
The Rachel Maddow Show
'The time is now to stand up!': Eric Holder sounds alarm on Trump's war on the rule of law
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