Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, June 24th. I'm Andrew Weissman, and I'm here with Mary McCord. Hello, Mary.

Hello, Andrew. I'm scattered because I have so much in my head.

And I just came straight from court, so I have court in my head, and now it's time to do a podcast.

And I know. You were coming straight from court. We've been boning up on war powers and international law because of the events of last week. And obviously,

we're going to talk about that. But in addition, we are also going to cover briefly some new

allegations that have just come out from whistleblower that deal with Emil Bovay and others.

But one of the reasons we both sound sort of like, okay, let's get to it is because there

is so much to cover and we are on top of it. So, Mary, with that, how are we going to divide up

our podcast today? Right. We will start with the Iran strike, what that means under domestic law, briefly under international law.

But we are going to do a special premium episode devoted entirely to that with our friend Tess Bridgman, who is a former legal advisor to the National Security Council knows this stuff better than

Andrew and I by far and she will join us for a premium episode that will air next week. So we will just

hit the wave tops. We will then dive into just a absolute plethora of immigration case related

news that has come out in the last 24 to 48 hours, including

the whistleblower complaint that you just referenced, Andrew, which all happened while I was in

court, so I'm going to be deferring to you on that. And then we will also come back to what now

seems like ancient history, but what we spent a good part of last week on, which is the

federalization of the National Guard and calling forth the Marines in Los Angeles, and the Ninth

Circuit staying Judge Breyer's decision, which had said that this was not a proper federalization

of the National Guard because there was no rebellion,

nor was the National Guard needed to execute the laws because they could not be otherwise executed.

So the Ninth Circuit stayed that.

New briefing has now been filed yesterday afternoon in front of Judge Breyer saying you can go forward with the PI,

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