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The Counsel

The Trump Administration Spews Legal Garbage on Minnesota Shootings

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.9

Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Tuesday this week. You've seen this happen several weeks already in 2026 where something

0:41.1

really too important to wait till Friday is happening. We're talking this week. You'll not be surprised

0:46.8

to learn about the Minnesota scenario, which is so deeply disturbing. Before we get to this week's piece, which addresses and debunks

0:57.4

some of the legal falsehoods that you're hearing out of administrative officials, I do want to

1:03.6

mention this one point. You've probably heard me say at some points that not every problem

1:09.3

we have in our government

1:11.3

and in our public world can be fixed through lawsuits,

1:15.1

can be fixed through the courts.

1:16.4

There's plenty that can be done in the courts.

1:18.5

There's plenty that can be done with criminal indictments

1:21.6

and civil lawsuits, but not everything.

1:24.4

There is no federal judge who can constitutionally evict ICE, throw them out of

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