Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, March 10th. That means it's only one week, Mary, away from my birthday.

And St. Patrick's Day. Which would be one and the same. How exciting. So anyway, guess what? I'm Andrew Weissman, and that was Mary McCord.

It is amazing that we're doing any chit-chat.

Yes.

We actually had an entire show planned.

Yes.

And then a couple of decisions came out that we are going to cover.

And it is, once again, a jam-packed episode of really interesting decisions and

developments. So maybe, as they say, without further ado, yes. Okay, Mary, what is on our dance card?

And I think, by the way, people will remember last episode where we're like go on and on about a subject and then they're like, ah.

Exactly.

Hold up.

Something broke.

Right.

Yes.

Yes.

So folks will remember, we closed out the episode last week by talking about the Department of Justice's decision to dismiss the appeals of all four court decisions in joining the president's executive order

blacklisting those law firms. I jumped back on a few hours later to say, oh, up, not so fast.

Apparently, they're going to file motions to withdraw those motions to dismiss. They did indeed

do that. So within a span of it wasn't even 24 hours, they reverse position. We're going to give

you a little bit of our inside take on how these kind of decisions get made within the department

and why that might have happened and briefly talk about sort of DOJ's real attack when it did file

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