I'm John Batchel with my colleagues, Andrew McCarthy at the National Review Online,

Thadis McHodder of American Greatness.

The politics of the moment are suggested by the Las Vegas event in which one deceased, the driver of the vehicle,

a cyber truck of Elon Musk's invention, parked in front of the

entrance to the Trump Hotel, suggests something to do with politics, but it's incoherent at this time.

So I'll turn to the politics of the moment that Andy explocates in his columns for the National

Review Online, the trials of the president-elect of the United

States, Mr. Trump, about to take office on the Monday later on this month and return to the

White House. At the same time, though two federal cases, I believe, are in cyberspace, the Smith prosecutions, the Willis, Fannie Willis case in

Georgia, and the Bragg case in Manhattan are still alive. I use that word inarticulately.

Are they alive, Andy?

The federal cases are really not alive.

That's the two Jack Smith cases, one in Washington, one in Florida.

They have been dismissed.

In the Washington case, Jack Smith, the prosecutor, filed a motion to dismiss, which was granted by the court.

In the Florida case, which had already been thrown out by the district judge, Aileen Cannon,

on the ground that Smith's appointment didn't comply with the Constitution, that claim was on appeal, but the Justice Department

has formally dropped its appeal, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed that to

happen.

So those cases are dead.

The Fannie Willis case is as good as dead because the appeals court in the state of Georgia

has held that she should have been disqualified by the trial judge.

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