Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is, surprisingly, since we weren't sure we were

going to do this last week, Tuesday morning, December 30th. New Year's Eve, Eve, the Eve of New

Year's Eve. I love it. Eve squared or whatever. Anyway, that was Mary McCord, and I'm

Andrew Weissman. We said last week we weren't sure that there would be enough news or anything

going on. Well, this being the second Trump administration, we kind of just had to do the show

because there's so much that happened. But Mary, one thing that I think is great,

it's kind of a gift for the end of the year because we have spent the year with so much news

and it really wasn't great news. It was difficult and this is a great show because we are going to talk about a series of legal

decisions that are positive developments. This is going to be an uplifting show. It's not

uplifting in terms of what the government tried to do. It is uplifting in terms of the court

up to the very top.

Mary, with that is the intro, what is on our dance card?

It's so interesting because, right, we recorded a day early last week on Monday,

and then, bam, Tuesday, Wednesday, including Christmas Eve Day.

We had lots of judges and justices that clearly wanted to get some opinions out before the holiday break. And they did. And those were important opinions. And one is an opinion we've been waiting for from the Supreme Court for months now. And that is with respect to the federalization and deployment of National Guard

troops in Illinois and Chicago and the Supreme Court, spoiler alert, and by now everybody knows this

because it's been a full week. They said, regular forces means with the military, President Trump,

you didn't try to do this with the military. We are denying your motion to stay the

injunction against that federal deployment. We will talk about that. We also had Judge Boasberg

in the D.C. District Court issue a ruling on something that goes way back to March, a ruling

with respect to the ability of those who were summarily expelled, removed from the United

States, allegedly because they were members of Trenda, Ragua, under the auspices of the

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