Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East. Happy Monday, a blistering rebuke for Donald Trump's

retribution campaign from what former FBI director Jim Comey on this program coined, quote,

the last standing leg on the three-legged stool of our democracy. That would, of course,

be the federal judiciary. A federal judge today quashing subpoenas from the Trump DOJ to Minnesota elected

officials. They include Minnesota's governor, Tim Walls, Minneapolis, mayor, Jacob Fry, and others.

This move all but crushes. An investigation launched during the

height of that brutal and violent occupation of the city of Minneapolis. It, of course, led to the

deaths of two American citizens, Renee Nicole Good, a mother, and Alex Prettie, a VA nurse. In a ruling dated

June 17th, but unsealed earlier today, Judge Patrick Schilti, a VA nurse. In a ruling dated June 17, but unsealed earlier today,

Judge Patrick Schiltz, a former clerk to conservative Judge Antonin Scalia

and appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush,

writes this, quote, initiating a criminal investigation

in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into

taking official action, particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly

require those political opponents to take, is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use of the grand jury

process. The only question then is whether the challenged subpoenas were issued for one of those forbidden purposes.

The court has no doubt that they were.

The judge goes on from there.

It only gets worse for Trump.

He calls out the Trump administration for wielding the DOJ as a weapon for Donald Trump's

political purposes. The Bush appointed judge writes this, quote, the subpoenas were a part of a

broader campaign to coerce state and local officials in Minnesota to assist the Trump administration

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