Just as Department prosecutor John Roggy was sitting at a bank of radio microphones

on the set of meat press, he was waiting to face questions from a fail-anx of the country's top reporters.

The reason John Roggy was front page news all over the country was because of a cascading

series of events that had just culminated in him being fired.

John Roggy had been head of the criminal division at main justice.

He was a high-profile DOJ leader, almost a household name.

He had dismantled the Huey Long political machine in Louisiana.

He'd taken the lead on some of the justice department's highest profile criminal cases.

But here he was getting ready for his grilling on meat press because he'd been fired and

because of why he'd been fired and because of what he'd been doing in the whirlwind that

led up to it.

John Roggy had just spent the better part of a year prosecuting more than two dozen alleged

seditionists in what Roggy had charged in court as a plot to subvert American democracy

to overthrow the American system of government to institute fascism here.

In the courtroom, the sedition trial had descended into chaos, which was very much to the benefit

of the defendants.

And then the whole thing had been upended suddenly with the surprise death of the judge in the

case.

The sudden death of the judge overseeing the trial, which caused a mistrial in the case.

The aggressively disorderly behavior of the dozens of sedition defendants and their lawyers.

The intense criticism of the trial by members of Congress who'd been involved with some

of the defendants.

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