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The I'm Dahlia Lithwick. This is Amicus Slate's podcast about the law and the Supreme Court. Welcome back. And welcome to Mark

Joseph Stern, my cherished co-host and jurisprudential ride or die. Hi, Mark. Hi, Dolly. It feels so

good to be cherished. Today, of all days, it's what I needed. Yes. I would burst into song, but you're probably too young to remember the song, Cherish.

Also too depressed by the news to do a good duet.

To do a good.

Excellent.

So listen, we are jumping in the top of the regular show because, surprising, no one who was paying attention, former FBI director James Comey was indicted on Thursday evening by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on a pair of charges, making false statements, obstruction of Congress.

There's so much here, Mark, that is really alarming, if not for many of us, break the glass, terrifying. And I thought maybe we could

break down the news, you and I as crisply as possible, which means can we just start with the murky part, which is what is it that Jim Comey has been indicted for?

So the indictment is less than two pages, which is extremely unusual. These are usually much longer because they allege an actual fact pattern of criminality that didn't happen here.

Instead, it simply accuses Comey of claiming in testimony before Congress that he never,

quote, authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports,

end quote. So the indictment accuses him of perjury on the grounds that he

did, in fact, authorize an FBI colleague to leak information to the press. Specifically, it

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