Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.

I'm your host, Sarah Izger.

And we are joined by Theroux Vignoraja.

He is running for Baltimore City State's Attorney, basically the district attorney of Baltimore.

We're going to talk violent crime, the political issue within the Democratic Party, and also

a little bit about Theroux and maybe some of the more interesting cases that he's had

over the years.

Let's dive right in through.

I feel like we need to start with our mute, just to give people an idea of the tone, perhaps

of this podcast and a relationship that we have that goes back to the spring, early spring,

late winter of 2008.

We met outside the Supreme Court.

This is the cutest and most nerdy first meetup story ever.

Yeah, so you had just finished clerking at the Supreme Court for Justice Stephen Breyer.

You'd been president of the Harvard Law Review, etc, etc.

And you decided to camp outside the court with the peasants before the Supreme Court

argument for Heller at the gun case.

And I was a law student who decided that I wanted the experience of being able to see an

oral argument and to camp outside the Supreme Court.

And there were roughly a hundred people or so camping in a straight line.

And we were next to each other in campsites and struck up a conversation in which I find

out that you just finished clerking at the court, your former employee, you don't have to

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