Hi and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, August 26. I'm Andrew Wiseman,

and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord. Hi, Mary.

Good morning, Andrew.

You always say that in such a way.

It sounds like, ooh, maybe it's going to be somebody different today.

But it's not.

It's me.

So just before going on, we were putting stuff together and we have all of our screens up.

I was actually thinking, this is like what Mary and I do before an oral argument. I mean, there's so much today that, like, I've got my notepad in front of me where I've scrolled down all sorts of points that I want to make and things that we need to talk about. And then I have, like, all these screens up. And it's like, I've run out of screens. I have windows on top of windows

on top of windows and now I know I'll screw it up you know midway through the podcast but like I try

I need three or four more screens is what I need or the executive branch to quit doing stuff and then

we could have like one screen and talk about one issue in depth wouldn't that that be something? Yeah, it's a moratorium on

the onslaught, which is hard to see is not being intentional. So, Mary, what is on our dance card

today? Yeah. First theme, Justice Department abuses. I mean, this will be no big surprise,

but there's so much that's happened in this week. We'll start

with the latest in the case of Kilmara Brego Garcia, who almost immediately upon his release

from criminal custody, once he got to Baltimore was taken into ICE custody. We'll talk about that.

We'll talk about the FBI search of John Bolton's home and office last Friday.

That was a huge, huge newsday about that.

John Bolton, of course, being one of the president's political enemies.

We'll talk about the Justice Department under the signature of Attorney General Pam Bondi,

trying to coerce so-called sanctuary cities into dropping those policies and voluntarily,

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