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 treated alike.

That 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.

Hey everybody, welcome to episode 135 of clean up on aisle 45. It's Wednesday, August 23rd, and the Rice County Jail is open. The Rice Street Jail in Fountain County is open for business today.

It's jumping all of a sudden.

The hottest club in town is Rice Street Jail. It's got everything. I'm doing my Stefan face right now. I'm Allison Gail everybody.

Hey, and I'm Pete struck. We have Allison so so much to cover today, including the arrest and bond conditions for Trump and his go conspirators in Fountain County.

How Trump wanted to schedule his arrest at the same time as the GOP primary debate to steal all the media attention, which will likely work, frankly, and the FBI investigation of ongoing threats to jurors in Fountain County.

And we also have at this hottest club. We have a few early filings from Mark Meadows, Jeff Clark and David Schaefer, who are also indicted in Georgia.

And remember how I said we should keep our eye on Arizona, Pete. Well, their fraudulent electric investigation has ramped up this week.

And finally, there are so many other headlines. We're going to add a lightning round of quick hits to cover those. That's how much news there is.

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So again, thank you. We cannot thank you enough. All right, Pete, we have a new segment, the lightning round, or I don't know what we're going to call it. Maybe our patrons can write in and give us a good name, but like, pew, pew, pew. It's just going to be headlines.

And we're going to read through these quickly. So let's get going over in California. John Eastman's disbarment proceedings were postponed for two days so that he could be arrested in Fulton County. That's funny to me. That's just a great headline. Both Eastman and Clark are trying to postpone their entire disbarment proceedings and failing.

On a Georgia, Fanny Willis is scheduled to arraignment for all 19 defendants for September 5th, which is the same days. Pete Navarro's criminal contempt trial beginning. She has also requested a March 4th 2024 trial date running right up against Trump's civil arm. Sorry, Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan for felony falsification of business records.

So many trials and stand down in Georgia, Donald wants to change the pardon rules in that state, because as you know, he can't be pardoned by either himself or a Republican president in Georgia. And there's a pardon board in Georgia. And you can't even apply until five years after your sentences over for a pardon to that board. So the governor can't even do it.

So he wants the he wants Congress or the legislature down there to change the pardon rules, but other Republicans in the legislature are like, nah, Navarro, we're good. We're going to we're going to leave that alone. So I think that's extra funny as well.

And while in Georgia, Fanny Willis sent the indictment of state Senator Sean Still to governor Brian Kemp, which could be the first step in the process to potentially form a three member commission that could recommend a suspension.

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