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Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French. We're going to start at the Department of Justice. Another set of indictments rejected by a grand jury. And that presumption of regularity, irregular, like bowel syndromes. Next, the memo from Chief Judge Sutton dismissing the complaint against Judge Bozberg.

There's some gold to dig out of that, and there's a lot going on there.

Again, back to the Department of Justice.

And finally, some questions from listeners just from this week.

We got so many good questions.

And Gryfter Sarah comes out to play

in the Texas Senate race. Well, David, let's start with the Department of Justice. Several

months ago, six Democrats, all of whom our former military veterans or intelligence community members, cut a 90-second video in which they told military personnel that they, quote, must refuse illegal orders.

Now, the Department of Justice tried to indict them under 18 U.S.C. 2387 10-year maximum prison sentence for anybody who, quote,

advises, counsels, urges, or in any manner causes or attempts to cause insubordination,

disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty by any member of the military.

The Department of Justice went to a federal grand jury this week,

and the federal grand jury gnawed DOJ real hard.

Now, David, you know, it's funny.

This pod has been around long enough that I used to talk about

the Department of Justice's not just their success rate in getting an indictment. I mean,

that was like not even an interesting conversation to have, but their success rate once they

brought charges against you at all, you know, soup to nuts was just so, so incredibly high

that it became a self-fulfilling prophecy that like if DOJ indicted you, you knew they were going to

win, so you might as well settle, so it doesn't go to trial. And there was this internal

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