Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

This is Hans von Spockowski, and you're listening to Case in Point.

And the title of our episode today is The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court.

I stole that from Eric Schmidt's new book, Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri,

who's my guest today, because he's got a new book coming out with that title about his

experiences as the Attorney General of the state of Missouri, and it's published by Broadside Books.

I have to tell you, Senator, that you picked a good publisher.

They actually published a book that John Fund and I wrote a couple of years ago about the

mismanagement of the Justice Department by Eric Holder, the former Attorney General in the Obama administration.

Now, Senator Smith has quite a background in public service. He served in the

state Senate, became the treasurer of the state, and then became, before he was elected the U.S. Senate,

the attorney general, the state of Missouri, just in time for the COVID mass hysteria that hit the country. And you've, so welcome to the show today.

I read your book. I got an early copy from your publisher. And I think you may have been the

busiest attorney general in the history of Missouri, because you almost immediately,

you got into these huge fights.

There's a great quote that you got an attorney general's office just in time for the election

of the most radical, power-hungry and lawless administration in American history. And you were in court almost immediately

because of that, weren't you? That's right. And I think, you know, now that we're kind of on the other

side of this fever dream in President Trump and his administration and the Republican House, Republican

Senator, doing all these things that we're excited about. I think it's something, you know,

it's, it's, it's dangerous to, to forget how close we were to sort of losing it all in that four-year

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