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Hey everyone, Ellie here, bringing you my weekly note to the cafe community.

Also, check out if you haven't already my other podcast,

up against the mob. All episodes are available now. It's the perfect holiday week binge.

And as always, send us your thoughts, comments, or questions-lawyer friend asked me this.

So is the Fifth Amendment basically just a cop-out? I thought for a

moment and responded, yeah, but it's a constitutionally sanctioned cop-out. Suddenly, the Fifth Amendment

is all the rage. Disgraced former DOJ official turned coup plotter, Jeffrey Clark, got the party

started when he belatedly took

the fifth to avoid testifying before the January 6th Select Committee.

Lunatic lawyer, John Eastman, I declined to attach the usual conservative lawyer moniker

because there's nothing conservative or lawyerly about his memo claiming the vice president

could unilaterally overturn the election for

Donald Trump, he quickly followed suit by calling on the Fifth Amendment, among other less applicable

privileges, to get out of his testimony. My first reaction, what took so long? Faithful readers of this

column might recall that way back on October 1st, I wrote this, quote, speaking of the

fifth, the targets here hold a Trump card, so to speak, any of them can choose to remain silent

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