Marc Elias: Law Firms Should “Stand Up” for You Rather than Surrender

Marc Elias joined Chris Hayes to discuss Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s call to lawyers, big law’s mistake in capitulating to Trump and Stephen Miller’s bizarre assertion that the White House can suspend habeas corpus. -Become a Democracy Docket premium member: https://hubs.ly/Q03jcl0-0 -Sign up for our free newsletters: https://hubs.ly/Q03jcbrc0 -Support our work: https://www.democracydocket.com/support/ -Shop Democracy Docket merch: https://store.democracydocket.com Follow Democracy Docket! -Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/democracydocket.com -⁠X/Twitter⁠: https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket -⁠Facebook⁠: https://facebook.com/democracydocket -⁠Instagram⁠: https://instagram.com/democracydocket -⁠TikTok⁠: https://tiktok.com/@democracydocket -Threads: https://www.threads.net/@democracydocket These clips originally aired on MSNBC on May 9, 2025.