Intro

Ghislaine Maxwell has sat for a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who not very long ago was serving as President Trump’s personal criminal defense attorney. The idea seems to be that Maxwell could offer some “help” getting to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in exchange for some sort of leniency. That’s for free subscribers. For paying subscribers this week, there’s much more:

* Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron’s libel suit against Candace Owens

* The machinations that have kept Alina Habba in charge, for now, at the US Attorney’s Office in New Jersey

* Another ruling blocking the administration’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship

* A strange Supreme Court order saying lower courts should do a better job inferring what its decisions on the shadow docket mean, and a concurrence from Justice Kavanaugh that says the lower courts really do need more guidance — guidance that only a more proactive and meddlesome Supreme Court can provide.

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