The rule of law is not just some lawyer's turn of phrase. It is the very foundation of

our democracy. The essence of the rule of law is that like cases are true and alike.

There not be one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, one rule for the powerful,

another for the powerless, one rule for the rich, and another for the poor, or different rules

depending upon one's race or ethnicity. To serve as attorney general at this critical time

is a calling I am honored and eager to answer. So yeah, now it's clean up on aisle 45 time,

and for a long while yet it is going to be clean up on aisle 45.

Hello and welcome to episode 115 of Clean Up on aisle 45. It is Wednesday, April 5th, 2023,

and I'm your host, Alison Gill. And I'm Pete Struck. We obviously have a lot of news to

cover since last Wednesday, including first and foremost, the indictment of one Donald J Trump,

ruling the grand summary judgment in part to dominion in their defamation suit against Fox News,

and Trump's collaboration, shocking enough with Jim Jordan's weaponization committee.

Yeah, and we also have the conviction of Douglas Mackey for election interference in 2016.

He's the guy who sent out the text messages to tell people to vote for Hillary from home via text

message. And the indictment of a Russian operative at Johns Hopkins University. I'm so glad

you're here to talk to us about this because this is right up your alley, Pete. But first,

we want to thank our patrons. You make this show possible, y'all. We forgot to read the new

patrons last week. So this list covers the past two weeks of new patrons, and we're going to have

to split these up across the show because we have over 60. So here's the first round. Big thank you

to Barbara Dufrey, Melissa Cavalone, Stephanie V, Rebecca Simer, Kim Jacobs, Beck, Amy Trumbull,

Michelle Lehman, Patricia Deltz, Judy Star, Amy Fisher, Garf Wynn, Maria Toker Chook,

Becky Leib Kennedy, Susan Moss, Ann Pierce, Diana Santiago,

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