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Hey folks, Bart McQ here.

I'm the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan

and a law professor at the

University of Michigan. This is a recording of my latest Cafe note, The Mission of Justice.

As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.

Dear listener, the first mission of any organization is to protect the mission.

When you're the Attorney General of the United States, corny as it may sound, that mission is justice.

Last week, Judge Aline Cannon dismissed the indictment charging Donald Trump in the classified documents case,

finding that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional.

The dismissal presented Merrick Garland with a decision.

Dump the special counsel and reassign the case to a Department of Justice lawyer,

or stay the course and file an appeal.

But the quickest path to trial may not be the one that best preserves important institutional interests of justice.

Judge Cannon's opinion was most certainly an outlier, rejecting the prior decisions of every other court to speak to the issue,

including the U.S. Supreme Court. Under Cannon's view, the appointments of Robert Mueller to probe

Russian election interference and Robert Herr to investigate Joe Biden must likewise be illegal,

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