Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice, which, by the way, that's my dog in the background,

and I was going to say Maine Justice is a particularly appropriate title today.

It's Tuesday morning. February 4th.

I am Andrew Weissman, and I am here with my wonderful co-host, Mary McCord.

Good morning, Andrew.

My dog is hopefully downstairs not responding to your dog, so otherwise we could just have them do the podcast today, actually, which might be fitting because you and I are in a bit of a funk.

Yes, exactly.

We're going to be barking.

Yes.

And howling.

Yes.

Honestly, that's a good way to start.

Is that a good segue?

We're trying really hard to bring some levity each week, even though it's really challenging

because there doesn't seem to be a lot good happening right now.

But there are some things.

We've got some courts that have issued some good decisions.

There's just such a deluge, almost minute by minute, of new things coming out fast and furious

from the administration that sort of shock the

conscience. And so...

Yep. It's like that movie, which I loved. Everything all at once.

Everything, everywhere, all at once. Yes, I think so, too.

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