So you live in DC, right?

I do, yeah.

On Kush Kudori is a lawyer, used to work at the Department of Justice.

If you were walking down the street and you ran into Attorney General Merrick Garland,

I'm kind of curious what you would do.

At this point, after the last week, I think I'd pull away and introduce myself and ask them if I could have my Justice Attorney talk to him.

When Enkush says after the last week, what he means is that the Department of Justice, under Merrick Garland,

has started racking up a series of legal decisions that have mystified observers,

decisions that seem designed to protect former President Donald Trump.

It's not exactly what you'd expect from a new Democratic AG.

I am very curious about what his conception of his job is,

what he wants to achieve in his job, what has motivated him to take the job,

and what his guiding values are.

Those are some deep questions.

They are.

I'm struggling at this point with,

as of this, I think Thursday or Friday, he'll be 100 days into his job.

It's sort of an arbitrary milestone, but it's something that allows us to kind of take a step back.

And I'm sort of struggling to make sense of his tenure at the moment.

As a former DOJ attorney, Enkush says,

one of the ways to understand these legal decisions is by looking at the Justice Department,

not through the lens of regular politics, red versus blue,

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