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The Counsel

Note from Elie 3/21: “One Unelected Judge” vs. the President

The Counsel

Some Spider, Inc.

Politics, News

4.6848 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst.  For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.3

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday.

0:20.2

Yeah, it's a two-for week. We did a piece earlier

0:22.6

this week. Probably could have done five pieces this week, given the pace of legal news,

0:26.8

but we'll spare you that and just leave it with two. So I want to share a quick story about

0:31.1

something that happened this week at CNN behind the scenes that I think you'll appreciate.

0:35.6

So I was in our DC Bureau Bureau and I knew that Wolf Blitzer

0:39.1

was going to be doing a one-on-one interview with retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

0:44.5

One of the things I had come down here to do was to follow that interview and to comment on it.

0:49.5

So I walk into our green room and one of our guest greeters is there and I say, hey, is Justice

0:53.5

Breyer here? And the guest grader goes, yeah, he's in the back. So we have a green room and one of our guest greeters is there and I say, hey, is Justice Breyer here?

0:54.8

And the guest grader goes, yeah, he's in the back. So we have a green room, but then behind that,

0:59.5

we have like a VIP green room, which I'm really not allowed access to. I'm joking, but it's not

1:05.2

for me. It's really for people like Justice Breyer. So I said to the guest greeter, I'm not going to bother him if he's back

1:11.8

there. And the greeter goes, now he, he's like all alone. And I don't think he would mind. So I go

1:18.0

back to the VIP green room and I see a security guy and I just said, I just want to say hi real

1:22.2

quick. And he was like, fine. I tap on the door. The door was halfway open. So I tap on the door. The door was halfway open, so I tap on the door, and they're sitting all by

1:28.2

himself as Justice Breyer. No phone. I don't know if he owns a phone, but he definitely was not on a phone

1:32.5

or holding a phone or staring at a phone like all of us. All he has with him is a single copy of

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