Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice.

It is Monday morning, December 22nd.

I am Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord.

Hi, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew.

How are you today this holiday week?

You know, it's December 22nd, and I've been thinking a lot because we may not

have a show next week, depending on whether there's news or not. And so because of that, I've been

thinking a lot about this last year. And it has definitely made me reflect on sort of where we are

and what might be coming up. It's hard to not view it as

almost a full year, 11 months under the Trump administration 2.0. But you know, even before January 20th,

even everything after the election, we were already like thinking through, I mean, first in terms of the podcast,

we were thinking through, well, this is probably the end of the prosecution. So where do we go from

here? And then just in terms of everything else, you know, there was that preparing already for

day one. And as our listeners know, lots of litigators, including my organization ICAP, were ready

and filed lawsuits within 24 hours of things like the attempted rescission of birthright citizenship.

So, you know, I was thinking the same thing this morning, Andrew, well, January 20th, there'll be a year.

And I thought, actually, it's been a year that we've been

already kind of like absorbed with what this administration would do and did do and has done

and is continuing to do. In terms of those litigations, and I kept being one of the many

terrific organizations, there have been over 500 lawsuits. We always are pitching just security,

but you can go to just security and get their litigation tracker and a running tally,

...