In the immediate aftermath of what had to be among the most stunning series of revelations of the incompetence, the depravity, the recklessness, and the hubris of the Justice Department, this week's installment of "Amicus: A Law Review" focuses dramatic attention on three hearings in the conduct of the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey: Beginning with a reminder of the gobsmacking question posed by a federal judge about the legal authority of Eastern Virginia United States Attorney Lindsay Halligan to initiate and prosecute the case at all.  

Then, we review in detail the even more shocking revelations in the courtrooms of a federal magistrate judge and a trial court judge--not only confirming wild misstatements of the law by the prosecutor to the indicting grand jury but also reflecting the breach of the attorney-client relationship in the disclosure by an investigating agent of material information before that same reviewing body.  As if that isn't enough, the broadcast also includes explanations of just why these legal errors, procedural bunglings, and constitutional gaffes (including an admission that the full grand jury never saw the final charging document) now mandate the outright dismissal of the case--with prejudice.

Attention to the internal "clown car" that IS the Justice Department (from which some 5500 employees have departed in the past 10 months) continues with reporting on the curious but likely well-founded internal investigation of exactly what two senior aides have been up to in attempting (unsuccessfully) to gin up mortgage fraud-related and other criminal cases against more of the President's self-identified adversaries, including New York Attorney General Letitia James—and California Senator Adam Schiff.  Finally in this category of prosecution reviews, the broadcast updates listeners on the status of the third of these cases, charging former National Security Advisory John Bolton if disclosing classified and secret information.

In the open file of other past and unmistakable violations of the law by this Administration, the broadcast then offers the latest insight into the continuing attention of a District of Columbia judge committed to the pursuit of truth in connection with that overtly unconstitutional transport of some 238 migrants to El Salvador last Match--and on the parallel work of a Maryland judge still struggling to deliver justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia as he moves in and among the civil immigration and criminal prosecution tendrils of a Homeland Security Department seemingly hellbent on deporting him to a foreign county.

Finally, we examine the excruciatingly painful and humanely troubling report of an Illinois judge who has chronicled--and condemned--the illegal actions and misconduct of federal law enforcement on the streets of Chicago in recent weeks, purportedly present to quell community unrest that never existed in the first place.  And the broadcast concludes with the findings of still another judge who determined that the recent military deployments in our nation's capital by the President are both factually unjustified and constitutionally invalid.

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