Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice.

It's Tuesday morning, February 18th.

I'm Andrew Weissman here with my co-host, Mary McCord.

And Mary, I was going to say hello, but the first thing I thought of is the title

main justice, the new title of this podcast, which you had been prosecuting Donald Trump,

could not be more apt for today's episode.

Yep. No, you're absolutely right. Although when you say welcome to Maine Justice, I kind of think, well, I wish we were welcoming people to Maine Justice.

That is a little spoiler alert for the main thing that we're going to talk about.

So why do we jump right in? What are we going to talk about?

Yeah, so obviously we're going to spend a lot of time today kind of dissecting things that people

have been hearing about since really the day after we recorded last week, the things that have

happened in response to the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bovet, directing that the

case against Mayor Eric Adams, the New York City Mayor, directing that that case be dismissed without prejudice.

And we did talk about that directive in our podcast last week.

And we talked about how it sort of said the quiet part out loud.

Like, we want to hold this prosecution over his head by dismissing without prejudice

so that he can essentially assist the federal government

with their immigration enforcement initiatives, particularly in New York City.

In case people are trying to figure out what is the difference between us because we always

are in violent agreement is you're like held over his head and I've been on air saying

it's a choke chain. Yes.

You know, this is. We both have dogs. Yes. And it's a choke collar. It is. So we're going to

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