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

Also, make sure to check out my new podcast up against the mob.

All six episodes in the first season are now up on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your

podcast. Listen, I guarantee you will love it. And as always, please keep sending us your thoughts

and your comments and your questions, two letters at cafe.com.

As we brace for a balance of powers defining showdown between Congress and the executive branch,

current and past administrations alike, all eyes are rightly on the combatants.

The January 6th committee, the Justice Department, President Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump and his

acolytes. But we also need to focus on that third branch of government, the judiciary,

which will referee the impending interbranch struggle. The outcome of the legal showdown ahead

could largely depend on how well and how quickly the federal judiciary can respond to the demands

that it will soon face. It's become axiomatic that the federal courts are slow, and indeed

they are. But usually this lament is accompanied with a, hey, what are you going to do?

And a shrug of the shoulders. After all, judges wear the robes and sit up high

and bang the gavel. Judges ask the questions. They make the calls and they do it on their own time.

Federal judges have life tenure, so they don't need to impress anybody. Judges are, in a word,

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