Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, May 27. I'm Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with Mary McCord. Hi, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew. I hope you had a nice weekend. It was a three-day weekend, which doesn't

really mean much these days, except on paper. It's a three-day weekend. Yes, on paper was a three-day

weekend, although I have to say, there were a number of things I read that were very poignant

about Monday. Yes, always. And, you know, it's just a wonderful time to take stock.

That's right.

And to also give deep, deep, deep thanks to those people who put their lives on the line and gave up their lives for a lot.

So that's a pretty somber note. Yes, we've asked a lot of them for our whole

history and we ask a lot of our service members now. So I hope that they had some rest yesterday.

Yes, we have a lot. My goodness. We do. And this is one where I was thinking that it's like the old joke when we were in government and it was like Friday. It's like, oh, it's only two more working days until Monday.

Right. Exactly. Oh, gosh. Yes. Okay. So there's such a lot to talk about and I was thinking about this, there's a nice connective through line.

Yes.

And a lot of the things we're going to talk about.

So, Mary, what are our three main topics?

Although, can I just say this reminds me of when you're told you when you speak,

you're told, you know, only pick three things.

You're supposed to say there are three things, but they can include lots of

subparts. I know. It's really hard. Well, to your suggestion about a through line, I mean, it's a

through line that our listeners have been hearing about for, you know, many episodes now, but it

continues, and that is the sort of retributive actions being taken by this administration. So we will

talk about Harvard. We will talk about another one of the law firms that was blacklisted and is now

one its actual permanent injunction. That's Jenner and Black. And we will talk about, of course,

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