Hello, and welcome back to Maine Justice. It is Tuesday morning, July 8th. I'm Andrew

Weissman, and I'm here with my co-host, Mary McCord. Hi, Mary. Good morning, Andrew. How are you today? How was your

holiday weekend? It was great. It was great. Although I ran into this lovely couple and they said

they were from Alabama. Okay. And they said we're blue voters in a red state. And they said that July

4th was very, very hard for them because they said, we love our country. We know you love your

country. And they were so upset about what was happening. And I think that could be

true regardless of whether you're a blue voter in a red state or I have so many friends who are

Republicans. And as we talked about, there's so many things that are going on that on a bipartisan

level are upsetting because if you just believe in the rule of law, which should be

a bipartisan issue, I think it makes July 4th sort of difficult. I agree. I had very mixed

feelings about July 4th. So we left D.C. for the weekend and went hiking. You know, it's sort of

interesting. That is the, was it the transcendentalists who. You know, it's sort of interesting.

That is the, was it the transcendentalists who, you know,

there really is something to back to nature and it's very restorative. And I know for a lot of people listening, it's great that they're engaged and focused,

but it's also really important.

Either before, during, or after you're listening to this

podcast and staying engaged to take time. But with that, yes, no, now we're right back at it.

Yes, we're going to cover a lot. Exactly. So, Mary, what do we got? I know we have a lot on our plate.

In fact, speaking of July 4th, in our first segment, we are going to talk about, really,

I would just say, something of a fiasco that is happening when it comes to the sort of deportation

and removal situation in multiple cases, one of which, frankly, blew up and had hearings

on July 4th. And that was the fallout from the Supreme Court's stay of the injunctions that required due process for third country removals and the July 3rd ruling in that case related to those who had been extracted from the country, sent to South Sudan,

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