Hello, welcome back to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, October 21st, and I am Andrew Weissman, and I'm virtually here with Mary McCord. Hi, Mary. How are you?

I am hanging in there, Andrew. Is it really only Tuesday? I know. Is that possible?

So I have so many notes because there's so much to discuss. You know, normally I'm the person

who's like, oh, let's engage in chit-chat. None of that. What's on our dance card?

Okay. In the one week since we talked, just so many more developments in terms of court decisions and rulings and appeals related to the federalization and deployments of National Guard into Portland and into Chicago and near Broadview. And we will start with that,

as well as the continued back and forth between a judge in Illinois and the government over

the extremely aggressive use of tear gas and less lethal munitions, etc., by ICE and Customs and Border Patrol. In fact,

DOJ is blaming Customs and Border Patrol for most of it as opposed to ICE, which I think is an

interesting little interdepartment conflict there. We've never seen that before. That's right.

Of course. Yes. Let's pass the blame. Maybe ICE is tired of being the ones that's getting criticized and it's like time for it to be CBP. But you know what? It's all part of DHS. And CBP is Customs and Border Patrol. Thank you. Yes. And by the way, we will briefly discuss because one of my favorite things is there's a scoop from the Washington Post this week

about a deal that Marco Rubio supposedly had to get the El Salvador government to agree to take all

these people and imprison them. We'll talk more about that, but it was fascinating. And it sort of fits

into what I'll call our first block, which is immigration-related

and everything that's wrought from that, which is ICE going in and now needing, according

to the government and the president, protection from National Guard.

Yep, exactly. Then we will move into the continued developments in the political prosecutions. It's hard for me to believe

that the Bolton indictment has been since we did the last podcast, because at this point,

it seems like forever ago, but we have not had a chance to discuss it yet. It is quite a bit

different than either the James Comey or Letitia James indictments. And we'll talk about why.

And in terms of political motivation, James Comey filed a substantial motion to dismiss yesterday

based on vindictive and selective prosecution, also filed a motion to dismiss based on

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