helping to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. This is the Constitution Study on the America Out Loud Network with your host, Paul Engle.

Scandals are nothing new. Of course, when it evolves politics, it tends to get a lot more

attention.

Sometimes the consequences are actually worthy of the scandal itself.

Hello there, everyday Americans Paul Engel here with the Constitution study, where we read instead of the Constitution,

Teach Righting Generation to be free. Glad you could join me today.

You know, very often I find that scandals reporting

is more a political's gotcha, right? You know, it's like, okay, one political party is in power.

They're going after their opponents. And the scandals are more about politics than anything else.

So when I heard that the FBI rated the district office of a state senator out of Virginia,

who happened to be a Democrat, well, my first thought was party politics.

Senator Eloise Lucas is a longtime figure in Virginia policy. She's also the Senate president

pro tempore. And so she actually played a rather prominent role in the state's recent

congressional redistricting efforts. So when I heard that her office had been rated, I'm like, well,

okay, let me check it out, but I kind of had this hunch.

Then I found out that she also had a nearby cannabis dispensary that she co-owns was rated as well.

Of course, there were warrants.

Okay, there were warrants.

That's good news.

But when what's described as a SWAT-style team with an armored vehicle shows up at a legislative office, that itself could be the scandal.

You know, okay, the cannabis outlet, maybe, but the, the legislative offices?

Now, as I understand it, the rate on the cannabis dispensary had to do with allegations that

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