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Trump Administration HARASSMENT, INTIMIDATION, and COERCION

Hi folks:

This week (link below), Mary McCord and I begin our Main Justice podcast by addressing the Department of Justice’s dropping the grand jury subpoenas it had served on The New York Times journalists who reported on legitimate security concerns about President Trump’s new Qatari-government-gifted Air Force One jet. The subpoenas on the writers — as well as on two of their spouses and one of their mothers! — speaks to a failed effort of “chilling and intimidating” other reporters. We delineate the complete fiasco of the prosecutors making misrepresentation after misrepresentation, and error after error. Result: the Court chastising them and ordering the subpoenas to be quashed if they were not withdrawn. It’s quite a story. (It is the reason for the title of this week’s episode, the genesis of which is the old Ginsu knife commercial.)

But still, there were even more subpoenas: last week, the DOJ filed subpoenas for 14 major law firms as part of an ongoing lawsuit between the American Bar Association and the Executive Office of the President, which Mary and I believe is an effort by the government to try and get the law firms to pressure the ABA to drop this lawsuit.

We also touch on an update to journalist Katie Phang’s lawsuit against the federal government over Epstein files redactions and address the criminal referral of Jack Smith by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (and why the latter is devoid of any factual or legal support). Plus, two immigration-related cases: a judge’s decision to throw out a DOJ lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s immigration laws and an appeal court’s decision to reverse a lower court order releasing Pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi.

It’s yet another jam-packed episode of Main Justice — thanks to the Trump Administration and its acolytes.

Stay engaged.

Andrew

PS: if you want to read a new review of my book, Liar’s Kingdom, How to Stop Trump’s Deceit and Save America, you can find it HERE. (You can check out other recent reviews of my book Liar’s Kingdom, HERE and HERE .”) If you want to pick up a copy you can do so HERE. Thank you to everyone who has made the book a #1 bestseller on the NYT list, Amazon list, and Publisher’s Weekly list. I am so very grateful.