Tonight, from troops in Portland to James Comey's prosecution.

Two very different cases with one common question.

Is the Trump administration using the courts in bad faith?

Plus, pressure mounts for the royal family and Prince Andrew over his length of Jeffrey Epstein.

And now a new memoir from one of Epstein's most well-known survivors

is about to hit the shelves.

And what are the people allegedly scammed by George Santos

think about his release?

You know what?

One's going to join me.

Tonight on Laura Coates Live.

So every courtroom, they run on one basic assumption, good faith.

A belief that the evidence is honest, that the prosecutors play fair, that when a president invokes his power, he's doing it for the public

good.

But what happens when that assumption is tested?

When good faith might resemble bad faith in disguise, perhaps?

Well, tonight there are two cases that are putting that very question to the test.

The first one? An appeals court is green lighting President Trump's troop deployment to Portland.

Now, this is reversing a decision for a federal judge who ruled just last week that there was no emergency

to justify bringing in the National Guard.

Now, I want to be crystal clear about what we're talking about here.

Okay. Protests outside of this ICE facility in South Portland. They've been going on for months,

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