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Sep 24, 2026
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Donald Trump is never one to let a news cycle about grift and corruption pass him by, and his Truth Social media platform is being sued over allegedly enabling insider trading.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
I want to bring into our coverage NYU law professor and legal analyst, our friend Melissa Murray.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Also joining us, political analyst, the former senator Claire McCaskill is here.
Nicolle WallaceHOST
Um, I, [scoffs] Liz Sawyer has a, um, you know, a, a content that's called Is This Legal, and it's such an important question, and I always wanna know the answer to it.
Antonia HyltonHOST
experts.
Antonia HyltonHOST
And joining me now are former New York Congressman Max Rose and Melissa Murray, MSNOW legal analyst and professor of law at NYU and author of The U.S. Constitution, A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide to the Modern Reader.
Antonia HyltonHOST
Sounds really relevant.
Antonia HyltonHOST
Congressman, I'm going to start with you, though.
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Max RoseGUEST
What's their plan to bankrupt the Trump family, for instance? What's their plan to make sure that anyone who collaborated with the Trump family in their backlash against the press and in terms of enriching the Trump family, what's their plan to make sure that all of their gains are absolutely rolled back? Those plans will also serve as a deterrence and an accountability measure.
Antonia HyltonHOST
All right.
Antonia HyltonHOST
Former Congressman Max Rose and Melissa Murray, thank you both so, so much.
Antonia HyltonHOST
Up next, the harrowing fight to get both routine and emergency medical care inside ICE facilities.
Eugene DanielsHOST
Thank you, my friend.
Eugene DanielsHOST
Joining us now to get into more of that legal is Melissa Murray, MSNOW legal analyst, NYU law professor and author of the book, The U.S. Constitution, a comprehensive and annotated guide for the modern reader.
Eugene DanielsHOST
Melissa, thank you so much for coming to the weekend and on short notice.
Eugene DanielsHOST
I want to get into the legal right because I'm not a lawyer, but I know a little bit.
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Melissa MurrayGUEST
We should be allowed to hold our leaders to account, to criticize them if necessary.
Melissa MurrayGUEST
That is part of what it means to be in a democracy.
Jonathan CapehartHOST
Melissa Murray, thank you, as always, for coming to the weekend, but especially on this very important day.
Jonathan CapehartHOST
Stay with MS Now throughout the day for updates on this breaking news.
Alex WagnerGUEST
I've thought about disenfranchisement, but no, doesn't shake out to me.
Alex WagnerGUEST
The Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw and Leah Lippman have a podcast on Crooked called Strict Scrutiny, and it is indispensable, much like this podcast in terms of legal news.
Alex WagnerGUEST
And they refer to the Roberts Court as the Goblin Court.
Alex WagnerGUEST
And this dissent is why they have earned that moniker.
Eugene DanielsHOST
We're going to have to leave it there, though.
Eugene DanielsHOST
stay tuned because we will have much more on this story coming up at the top of our next hour with a live report from near the white house legal analysis from melissa murray and new mexico democratic congresswoman melanie stansbury is standing by on what democrats need to tell voters fed up with trump's economy as they watch the cost of living skyrocket around them while the president and his family continue to prosper you're watching the weekend
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So by stopping at the education section of a resume, you might throw away the perfect hire.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
He is also the author of Who Decides Who Decides on Substack.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
Also with us, Melissa Murray.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
She is a professor of law at NYU and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
I'm so glad to get to talk about this with both of you.
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Jacob SoboroffHOST
It has been indispensable to have you both this morning as we follow this breaking news.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
James Sample, professor of law at Hofstra University.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
Melissa Murray, professor of law at New York University.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
Thank you both so much.
Kate ShawGUEST
Done.
Alex WagnerHOST
Also, if we're looking for a shortlist of brilliant legal minds, preferably women, who would make great Supreme Court appointees, Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw are at the top of my list.
Kate ShawGUEST
I would've said unconfirmable a few years ago, and I think that's probably still true.
Kate ShawGUEST
[laughs]
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Um, I'll start with one.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
We- I talked about it, um, when Amanda Nelson was on the show, and we talked about the United States Constitution, but Melissa Murray, who's a constitutional law professor, one of the hosts of the Strict Scrutiny podcast, put out a great book earlier this summer called The US Constitution, and it is the full text of the Constitution broken down clause by clause into a plain text interpretation and a history of what were the framers solving for.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
So much of it was their own very recent PTSD, uh, and a real, like, failure of imagination that we would still be using the Constitution in mostly its original form 250 years later.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Um, it was illuminating for me as a person who has, like, read the Constitution and pays attention to a lot of politics, but really to get into the details of, you know, what they were trying to address, what they were trying to set the new country up to do, and what they were trying to prevent.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
Yeah.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
I love that one too.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
Melissa Murray is great, and I totally agree that it's one thing to just read it and be like, "The rights of the people and blah, blah, blah-
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
[laughs]
Melissa MurraySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's helpful to go back to the beginning and think about what the separation of powers is and what it was intended to accomplish.
Simone LeeperHOST
That's Melissa Murray.
Simone LeeperHOST
She's a law professor at New York University, a co-host of the Strict Scrutiny legal podcast, and the author of a book called The United States Constitution: An Annotated and Comprehensive Guide for the Modern Reader.
Melissa MurraySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When the Framers were drafting the Constitution, they were really responding to trauma.
Melissa MurraySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Abraham Lincoln famously suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
Melissa MurraySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That was viewed as an excessive use of executive power.
Simone LeeperHOST
Once again, Melissa Murray.
Melissa MurraySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was viewed by some as tipping into the kind of despotism that he railed against as commander-in-chief during World War II when the United States was fighting Hitler and Mussolini.
Ari MelberHOST
Uh, the problem for the Trump White House now is a growing scandal about why a Putin-linked oligarch put up money for that ceremony.
Ari MelberHOST
Uh, we turn to Melissa Murray, New York University law professor, MS now analyst.
Ari MelberHOST
Uh, what are the legal and corruption issues here?
Melissa MurrayGUEST
I mean, there are a lot.
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