We are going to see at least one, if not four, prosecutions of a former president, and

what it means for our country and what it means in terms of the rule of law.

Hi, and welcome back to Anacus.

This is Slates Podcast about the courts and the law and the rule of law.

And I am dialythmic.

I cover those things for Slates.

And we find ourselves taping the show this week in a strange, liminal space wherein we

are holding our collective breath, awaiting a ruling on a national injunction for the first

pill in the medication abortion protocol.

We're awaiting an indictment of former president, Donald Trump, from the Manhattan DA.

We are awaiting news from Fannie Willis about a Trump indictment possibly in Georgia.

And awaiting yet more rock-em-socum news from Jack Smith's investigation into stolen

documents at Mar-a-Laga.

An optimist might suggest that the walls really are closing in on the former president,

but you know me too well for that.

So perhaps we can take this past week much of it devoted to rank speculation about what

Alvin Bragg is up to and why.

To ask ourselves two questions.

Why did so much of the media spend six straight days watching security barricades being erected

around the Manhattan DA's office?

And what did we miss while we were so doing?

And why use Andrew Weissman will join us to figure it all out.

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