Andrew Weissmann

That would get rid of the case.

Did that still happen?

It's complicated.

This is why lawyers have a bad name because you're just like, can't you just give me like a freaking yes or no?

And I think that the answer is mostly unless the case is reinstituted, it's not going to get litigated.

Well, look, the Letitia James case will be – I think will be brought and she will continue making that argument.

And she has a very strong argument.

I think her argument in many ways is even stronger than James Comey's argument for vindictive prosecution.

There is – I just want to mention something on the government side.

which is there is a statute that says that if you have brought the case within the statute of limitations and a court later says that there's some defect in the indictment and you need to re-indict, that you dismiss the indictment because of that, this congressional statute 3288 says that the government gets six more months

And so I think we're going to hear a lot about that statute and about whether this is the kind of dismissal that triggers that six-month period that would allow James Comey to be properly re-indicted or whether that statute doesn't apply here.

yes but that is the part of that's like trump 1.0 which was malevolence fortunately married with incompetence and here there's certainly malevolence there's there's this the transparent weaponization of the department when you say i want you to open an investigation into the epstein matter but only as to democrats that is just it is not the quiet part out loud it's the loud part out loud it's just it is just being blatant

And so that is what's going on.

In terms of incompetence, just remember Lindsay Halligan had to swore to a judge that she didn't present the indictment, the second indictment of James Comey to the grand jury.

The next day they filed something saying, no, they made a mistake.

She did present it.

I mean, it's a clown show.

I mean, it's just in terms of incompetence-

So I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

When I first went to the grand jury, somebody came with me.