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Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Beauvais has issued instructions to U.S. attorneys,

ordering them to investigate and prosecute local law enforcement officials that fail to enforce the Trump administration's deportation policies.

And new leaders at Maine Justice are reassigning over 20 career officials to make way for

Trump loyalists while installing acting U.S. attorneys in both the D.C. and New York districts.

Meanwhile, Judge Cannon has issued an order blocking certain members of Congress from getting access to volume two of Jack Smith's final report, preventing key senators from receiving vital information needed to provide advice and consent on Cash Patel, Trump's nominee to lead the FBI.

And federal judges are pushing back on the sweeping pardons of January 6th convicts,

while the newly minted U.S. attorney in D.C. begins dropping cases against those who have yet to face trial.

All of this and more on today's unjustified.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to all of you, all the new listeners.

This is episode one of the Unjustified podcast.

It is Sunday, January 26th.

I'm Alison Gill.

And I'm Andy McCabe. Okay, our new podcast will identify the people,

policies, and prosecutions of the new Department of Justice. We'll expose legal deficiencies and

provide analysis of the impacts on both the institution and the American people. Yes, we intend to

shine a bright light on the

inner workings of the Justice Department. And today, we're going to start with Emil Beauvais.

That's Trump's new acting deputy attorney general. And his, what I think, is an unlawful order

to U.S. attorney's offices to prosecute state and local law enforcement who failed to carry out immigration policies.

And if Emil Beauvais sounds familiar, that's because he was Donald Trump's private lawyer,

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