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Hey everyone, it's Ellie here.

Happy Friday.

It's been another eventful week in the law and in politics.

As always, thanks for checking in.

Please keep sending your thoughts, questions, or comments to Letters atcafe.com. As a toddler, I was a devout Sesame Street viewer, a fanatic and a connoisseur, really.

One of my favorite recurring bits was called, One of these things is not like the other.

Sorry, I sang that.

You can keep that in, guys. They'd show, say, a lemon, an apple, an elephant, and an orange,

and the viewer would have to pick out the one thing that didn't belong. Part of the allure was that

even to a kid just out of diapers, it was pretty easy to figure out. Take that as a brag,

if you will. By the way, it's the elephant.

Alas, time goes by and life's puzzles get more complicated. Take, for example, the Justice Department's

decisions on whether to file criminal contempt of Congress charges against four high-profile

subjects who defied subpoenas from the January 6th committee, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino,

Peter Navarro, and Steve Bannon, who is set to stand trial starting on Monday.

Now, at first glance, there's little to distinguish one from the next.

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