Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, May 12th. The voice you're hearing is Andrew Weissman, and that is Mary McCord. Hello, Mary. Good morning, Andrew. So, my shameless question, are you ready for it? Yes. If today is May 12th, what happens in one week? Book launch, book launch,

Andrew Weissman's book launch. Did I get it right? You got it right, yes. So my book Lire's Kingdom,

and by the way, the reason I'm thinking about it is recording this show right now is so great

because my hand feels like sort of hamburger meat because I'm signing hundreds

of book plates. So you know what? My little miniature violin is just playing the saddest

melody for you. I'm not hearing the sympathy. So I signed hundreds of these and I just signed them. And then somebody said to me, well, what are you writing? And I said, I'm writing. I'm writing my name. And they were like, no, but what are you writing? And I'm like thinking, well, my name has two words in it. First name and last name. And they're no, no, no, but what are you? You know, you have to say something. Oh, my. And I'd already finished hundreds of these, so I had to go back because I was like, Did you really? And write something? Yes. I was going to suggest Autopin. Well, I was thinking, now I understand the Autopenn. And I'm signing a viewer of these than I would say Donald Trump's pardons has that to sink way into something.

All right.

So, Mary, after that, shameless plug.

Yes.

Well, that is probably going to be about the last light moment of today's podcast.

But we say that.

We say that almost every week.

I know.

This week feels, I say this every week also,

just it feels extraordinary. And a lot of it is post-Callay, the case, of course, that we

discussed at length last week, and just horrendous behavior, in my opinion, by the states

to try to take advantage of that ruling. And all of this happening when we are in the midst of

primaries in an important election year. And frankly, that is going to be segments one and two.

What's been happening in Calais, what's been happening post-Calais, the Virginia redistricting decision,

an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in that decision

and other related election matters, including the denial by a federal judge in Fulton County, Georgia,

of a motion to order the return of everything seized during the execution of the search warrant

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