Dear listeners,
On this week’s Serious Trouble, Ken and I look at more news in the Letitia James and James Comey cases: DOJ tried to re-indict James, but they got a no-bill. In the Comey case, the government says it’s being stymied by a motion from Comey’s friend and sometime-lawyer Daniel Richman, who seeks the return of digital files the government seized from him. For now, Richman has a temporary restraining order that’s tying the government’s hands, but Ken thinks the DOJ will succeed at getting it dissolved. Meanwhile, Lindsey Halligan is still running around, acting like she’s the U.S. Attorney (even though the fact that she isn’t is why these cases got dismissed), but Alina Habba has thrown in the towel, moving to main Justice to advise Pam Bondi and declaring “you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take the New Jersey out of the girl.”
We also look at charges against Brian Cole Jr., who’s accused of the attempted pipe bombings at the RNC and DNC nearly five years ago, and possible reasons why the FBI was able to identify him now but not in the immediate aftermath of the attack. We look at shadow docket action that saved Republicans’ Texas remap, we discuss Charles C. Johnson’s latest misadventures that have landed him in jail for contempt of court, and we consider why an embarrassing police report about Rep. Nancy Mace’s airport meltdown became public.
We hope you enjoy the episode,
Josh
