Really happy to have you here today is June 22nd, which means yesterday was June 21st, the summer solstice,

which means these are the longest days of the year, the longest days and the shortest nights.

And I know it's a coincidence, I know it's unrelated, but can I also tell you that there's like 10 different things

to report to you tonight that are all good news stories? And I know that is not how we usually

lead things off on this show, but there really is a bunch of positive news to tell you,

just thing after thing after thing.

Let's start, for example, with the courts.

Today, a federal judge, a Republican-appointed federal judge, tossed out subpoenas that Trump's

Justice Department had issued against Minnesota's Democratic governor, Tim Walz, and the

Minneapolis mayor, also a Democrat, Jacob Fry, and Minnesota's Democratic

Attorney General, Keith Ellison, and a whole bunch of other Minnesota officials. This goes back to

Trump's big federal attack on Minnesota this winter with those thousands of federal agents in the

Twin Cities. In between Trump's agents killing Renee Good and them killing

Alex Prattie in the streets of Minneapolis, in between those two killings, Trump's Justice

Department got subpoenas to basically raid the offices of most of the major Democratic officials

in the state of Minnesota and in the Twin Cities.

Well, today, a Republican-appointed federal judge shot those down,

saying in his ruling that there was, quote, no doubt those subpoenas were issued to, quote,

harass Trump's political opponents.

The ruling said, quote, on the one hand, the evidence that the challenged subpoenas were issued for unlawful reasons is overwhelming.

On the other hand, the judge wrote, the Department of Justice has struggled without success

to identify a single, plausible, investigatory justification for the subpoenas.

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