2026 Mailbag: Is Any Of This Legal? [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
5-4 answers your questions about whether ICE agents can be prosecuted, why it’s worth knowing your rights, if the president can cancel the midterms and…whether there’s revolutionary potential in tax evasion. As always, this is not legal advice™.
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| 0:00.0 | The real question is this. |
| 0:02.5 | Was all this legal? |
| 0:04.5 | Absolutely fucking not. |
| 0:09.5 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:10.7 | This is Leon from Prologue Projects. |
| 0:12.8 | On this subscriber-only episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael are once again answering your questions. |
| 0:19.7 | The last time we did a mailback episode was one year ago. |
| 0:22.7 | At the time, I said the administration was testing the limits of their power by ignoring |
| 0:26.7 | existing laws and pretending the Constitution is just a set of suggestions. |
| 0:31.4 | In the years since, we've seen the White House double down with terrible consequences. |
| 0:35.1 | The residents still mobilizing after an ICE officer shot and killed a 37-year-old mother. |
| 0:40.3 | Overnight, outrage in Minneapolis after the killing of Alex Pready. |
| 0:44.4 | Federal agents today arrested former CNN anchor Don Lemon and three others. |
| 0:49.3 | Uncertainty for two Chula Vista children. This week, ICE detained both their parents after they dropped the |
| 0:56.1 | children off at school. Ice agents detained her husband outside their Georgia home. Ice agents |
| 1:01.9 | used a crowbar to pry open his window before smashing it to pieces and then pulling him out of the vehicle. |
| 1:08.8 | Understandably, you all had questions. |
| 1:12.8 | Can ICE agents be prosecuted? |
| 1:14.1 | If so, how? |
| 1:17.1 | Can the president unilaterally cancel the midterms? |
| 1:19.5 | Is it even worth knowing your rights when there are videos showing federal agents |
| 1:21.5 | routinely ignoring the Constitution every day? |
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