M-S-O-W-Media I'm Greg Oliar, four years ago I stopped writing novels to report on the crimes

of Donald Trump and his associates. In 2018, I wrote a best-selling book about it, Dirty Rubles.

In 2019, I launched Proveil, a bi-weekly column about Trump and Putin, spies and mobsters,

and so many traitors. Trump may be gone, but the damage he wrought will take years to fully understand.

Join me and a revolving crew of contributors and guests as we try to make sense of it all. This is Proveil.

The rule of law is not just some lawyers turn a phrase. It is the very foundation

of our democracy. The essence of the rule of law is that like cases are treated like,

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, yeah, it is going to be clean

up on aisle 45. Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 86 of Clean Up on aisle 45. It is Wednesday,

September 7, 2022, unless you're a patron, and I'll get to that in a second. I am your host,

Allison Gill, with me as always, real-life lawyer and real-life friend, Andrew Torres, hi, Andrew.

Hey, Allison, how you doing? Oh, you know, woke up, got some coffee, read a pile of horse shit,

and then now I'm here with you. This is our lives now.

I have never read a more wrong and idiotic ruling from a judge seated on a federal bench in a

while. So that is correct. And can I just do this as sort of our guide to why the hell are we

here in the first place? So one of the things you do as a lawyer is you put your best rhetorical

arguments kind of up front, you know, first page, first paragraph. I want to read you this page

too, but this is the, that's because the stuff immediately preceding that was all even more,

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