Hello, and welcome back to Maine Justice.

It is Tuesday morning, October 7th.

I am Andrew Weissman.

I am here with my co-host Mary McCord.

Mary, that ends the positive part and the even-keeled part of this episode. How are you? Leaving aside everything that's happening in the real world.

How are you? My health is good. I had a good run this morning faster than usual. So that ends the good part of my day. So there we go. Because, you know, on Mondays, and this is not a Monday, this is Tuesday, but this is kind of every day now. Like, the early morning hours of sleep are not really sleep. They're thinking about all the million things that you're worried about and then you have to do. And so that's all there in a flood in your brain. And the first

people you talk to, unfortunately, have to hear that flood of stuff you've been thinking about

all night. It's like no matter how old you get, you still on Sunday night, it's still,

you're thinking about school the next day. Yeah. And it's like,

you can't get that out of your system. And I'm 67 years old and that still happens. Yeah, totally.

I have to say, I do that on Monday nights because I'm thinking about how to calm myself, exactly, and how to calm myself down. Yeah. Because obviously,

a lot has happened and there's a lot to cover. So what is on our dance card? Yeah. And, you know,

it is interesting. Yesterday was the opening day of the Supreme Court's fall 2025 into

26th term. And you might have thought we'd spend

this episode talking about the major cases that are on the docket, including, I mean, today,

a case challenging the bans on conversion therapy. In November, the tariff case. We've got a case

that my team is working on. just got cert granted on Friday.

That is a case involving Hawaii's gun restrictions.

And then, of course, probably birthright citizenship is going to end up in the Supreme Court, etc.

But we are not going to talk about that because instead...

Although, by the way, one thing that's not on their list is Glain Maxwell's appeal.

That's right. They did not grant cert. But you're right. You know, this is such an elegant way of

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