Hello and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, February 10th.

2026. We'll just say 2026. I don't think I'm going to make it. It's been a long year.

That was Mary McCord. This is Andrew Weissman. Yes, that is because Mary and I, at some point, we really

should do a sort of behind the scenes because, you know, we have wonderful producers. They give us

suggestions. We start thinking during the week about what we want to cover. Major decisions come up,

Mary and I send those to each other. But then over the weekend, it was just

like, it was like, Mary, here's something. Mary, here's something. Mary, here's something. Mary's

like, have you seen this? And we have just a lot of short hands and it was just chock full.

So chock full that Mary, you're probably thinking, how about we get started,

you know, put a sock in it because we have so much to cover. So, Mary, how's that for an intro?

Yeah, really. What are we going to talk about? So, you know, our latest breaking that has

bumped our top segment is the latest out of the Department of Justice. And we learned about it first when

the Deputy Attorney General put out a social media post that it had asked the Supreme Court to

grant cert in Stephen Bannon's appeal from his conviction, vacate the judgment below,

and send it back so that the lower court could dismiss the indictment of

Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress, something he has already been tried by a jury, found

guilty of, and served his time for. So you and I both had flashbacks about Michael Flynn. And so we'll

talk about that and about this really, you know, whatever people might think about

the legal issues, the social media post was pretty troublesome to me coming from the deputy

attorney general. Yeah, you know, I was trying to figure out why it bothers me so much. And I think

the answer is because we know he knows better. And so there's a special place for that when you know the person knows

because he was raised like us.

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