Hello and welcome to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, March 3rd. I am Andrew Weissman. I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord, and I'm going to say, hi, Mary, what's on our agenda?

That's right. We are not going to engage in chit-chat because we have too much to talk about, and we're going to get right to it.

We're going to start by talking about the attack on Iran from the weekend. We are going to have

our good friend and expert who will be known to our listeners, Tess Bridgman, international law

expert, formerly in the White House Office of Legal Advisor, knows all about this kind of stuff.

International law, domestic law.

We'll talk about all of those things with respect to that attack and the ongoing war that we

are in.

Then we will move on, like we do every week, to immigration decisions, including judges in

multiple places, getting very frustrated with the government's continued refusal to abide

by court orders.

Again and again and again and again.

Again and again and again.

That's a quote.

And last up, we will turn to the Department of Justice's decision to drop its appeal of all of the rulings against it, against the president's executive order blacklisting law firms.

They had lost every case in the district court.

They had filed an appeal and they have now dismissed that appeal, which means the law firms that

challenge the executive orders have conclusively won.

They have prevailed because their First Amendment rights had been violated.

And then we will talk about the seizure of a Washington Post

reporter's devices and how a court resolved the issue of balancing the First Amendment rights

of the reporter against the government's rights that it had probable cause to search for

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