Dear listeners,
A grand jury has refused to indict Letitia James — no, this isn’t a repeat of last week’s email; it just happened again since we last recorded. This time, it’s a different grand jury, but they reached the same result. Ken and I discuss further impediments to the resurrection of the cases against her and James Comey — in the Comey case, the government is going to have to jump through more hoops if it wants to look through any of Daniel Richman’s files — and there is one breaking bit of news after we taped: White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told a reporter on the record that the case against James constitutes “retribution.”
That, plus a discussion of the unlikely-to-matter pardon of former Colorado election official Tina Peters, is for free subscribers this week. Paid subscribers also get:
A look at a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation which aims to stop the construction of Trump’s new White House ballroom.
Another trial court win for Gavin Newsom as he tries to end Trump’s activation of the California National Guard (though the outlook in the appeals courts is more dubious).
Costco’s lawsuit seeking return of its tariff payments under IEEPA, and why Costco would sue now, long after a few plaintiffs stood up to bring a test case but before the Supreme Court rules on it.
And the order that has, for now, freed Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland.
We hope you enjoy the episode,
Josh
