Hi and welcome back to Maine Justice, and welcome back to the Tuesday schedule.

It is Tuesday morning, July 29. I am Andrew Wiseman, and that other voices, my wonderful co-host, Mary McCord, and we're all back. Welcome, Mary. It's good to be here on a Tuesday morning. We have got just a jam-packed. I know, I think I say this every single week, but every single week, I think, oh my gosh, this is so much, we're not going to be able to cover it all. Well, Mary, last night, we were, look, we had sort of, you know, people sort of know by now that we we've learned not to do too much planning, but we do think about the topics, but we don't do it too far in advance because things change, but I mean, seriously, like last night, really this morning.

Right, we're like, we need to add this, we need to add that, we need to add this.

But with all of that banter out of the way, what do we got?

We will start, as we did last week, with the continuing Epstein's saga.

Shortly after we recorded last week, the first court to have one of the petitions to unsealed grand jury transcripts denied that request. There have been other developments. Galane Maxwell

is still pursuing her petition for Supreme Court review. And of course, since we talked,

we've had the Deputy Attorney General spend two days personally meeting with Ms. Maxwell. And so... That's really typical, isn't it, Mary? Oh, yeah. Happens all the time. Yeah, I mean... Facetious, Bing, Bing, Bing. Right. I mean, I always had cases where... I mean, I preferred it when it was the Attorney General, but, you know, from time to time, the deputy.

If you're going to butt into my case, it really better come from the very top, right, if you mess with my case.

Anyway, as you can tell, I'm into digressing.

We're getting triggered and we haven't even started.

Okay, then we will move on to, there's been so much that has gone on in the sort of immigration and deportation-related area and cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities.

We had a first ruling dismissing the Department of Justice's case against Chicago, the state of Illinois, the county of Cook County. And we had at the same time,

almost the same moment, the DOJ bring another new case against New York City, alleging that

its sanctuary city policies violate the supremacy clause and discriminate against the federal

government, et cetera. But we've also had developments in cases like the Abrago Garcia case,

and we've had the first effort to litigate against the DOJ by somebody who was part of that

deportation flight to El Salvador, who has since been sent to Venezuela, pursuant to this sort of

weird deal by which the El Salvadoran president sent all of the Venezuelans to Venezuela,

and Venezuela released Americans that it was detaining.

And then that leads kind of directly to something that did happen that really broke late last night was this,

it feels unprecedented to me, misconduct complaint that the attorney general directed her chief of staff,

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