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www.serioustrouble.showLetitia James has been indicted, as President Trumpâs retribution campaign continues. (So has John Bolton, but that happened after we recorded.) While the Bolton indictment has a forbidding, professional feel, the James indictment does not, and is likely to be vulnerable to some of the same attacks James Comey is raising against his own indictment. But then, is the point even to get a conviction? Plus: another US Attorney has been forced out for insufficient eagerness to investigate the presidentâs enemies, and the Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwellâs arrival to the Club Fed in Texas has made life less pleasant for the other inmates there.
For paying subscribers, we look at Drakeâs humiliating loss in his defamation lawsuit against his own record label, in which a federal judge had to explain to him how a rap battle works; a discussion of a split decision by a panel in the Sixth Circuit, saying schools may prohibit clothing with implied vulgarities (such as two studentsâ sweatshirts that declared âLetâs Go Brandon"); ICE enforcing a little-known law that green card holders must actually carry their green cards (apparently just with fines, so far); and the State Department bragging that itâs revoking visas held by non-citizens who said mean things about Charlie Kirk.
There's also a preview of Josh's new podcast Central Air, a weekly politics chat from the center.