Damage to the System

Our new Main Justice podcast episode

This week we cover some important stories that have gone under the radar.

Here’s one: the Inspector General’s report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to communicate bombing plans just hours before the attack which the IG finds endangered the mission and the troops. A link to the report is in the show notes.

Here’s another: Judge Beryl Howell’s scathing decision on the lawless arrests of immigrants in Washington, D.C. The treatment of these people is not the only shocking part - the government as the judge documents, repeatedly admits that it is violating the Fourth Amendment when it is making these arrests. Over and over again the government says it is not using “probable cause” (which the constitution requires), but a lesser standard. She enjoins the practice. A link to her decision is in the show notes.

Here’s a third: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche publicly chastised companies for making allegedly inconsistent claims about the DOJ’s enforcement policies about white-collar crime, but Blanche’s own comments are logically inconsistent themselves And his claim that the administration is taking white-collar criminal cases seriously is inconsistent with, yes, the data.

We also of course discuss the Supreme Court’s redistricting decision, as well as the latest regarding the Letitia James case.

Quite a week of news. Stay engaged!

Andrew