Note From Elie 8/29: Will the Courts Let Trump Send the National Guard Into New York?

The Counsel

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News, Politics

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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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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0:34.6	Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday, the final Friday of offer, all lowercase.
0:42.2	Hey, everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday, the final Friday of the summer.
0:46.9	I guess technically it goes into September, but for all intents and purposes, Labor Day is the end.
0:47.9	It feels like the end of summer.
0:49.4	That's good enough for me.
0:51.1	They say summer is supposed to be the quiet time for news, for the law, for the media.
0:56.7	Not so, summer of 2025. I was thinking back, gosh, it feels like forever ago, but if you go back
1:02.2	from Memorial Day till now, here's a quick list I jotted down of major legal cases that we've
1:07.2	discussed on this podcast and elsewhere. We had the end of the Supreme Court term,
1:11.7	a bunch of major decisions, including a big one, on nationwide injunctions by district court
1:16.4	judges. We had a whole slew of lower court rulings on the scope of presidential powers,
1:22.1	on tariffs, on immigration. We had the Sean Combs verdict, the Diddy case. We had, of course, the ongoing
1:29.2	drama and controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein files over Galane Maxwell. We had a ruling from
1:35.5	a New York appeals court throwing out much, not all, but much of Letitia James's civil
1:40.9	verdict against Donald Trump. We had retributive investigations, I believe, opened
1:46.1	of Letitia James herself, of Adam Schiff, of the Obama administration by the Bondi-slash-Trump
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