Devlin Barrett

One is with prejudice, which means you cannot refile this no matter what.

And the other is without prejudice, which means you can refile.

And these cases were dismissed without prejudice.

Got it.

So there is still an avenue here, at least in theory.

for prosecutors to try again.

I think as far as reviving these cases, I have no doubt the desire is there on Trump's part.

I think the question is, if you're the Justice Department, if you're Trump's Justice Department, how do you balance the desire to appeal, the desire to fight this decision,

With the more practical question of, okay, so if Lindsay Halligan isn't the U.S.

attorney, who is and who exists within the government that might even be willing to try to take a second shot at the grand jury with these cases?

This becomes potentially another search for the prosecutor who will, you know, pursue this case yet again.

It's entirely possible.

And so there are a lot of question marks here as to what will the administration's next steps be because they have pushed the department into a bunch of situations and scenarios that really haven't been contemplated before.

So this is obviously a very important set of rulings by this judge.

And I think they represent a major setback for the president's retribution campaign against his enemies.

But I also think it's a trap.

to think that in court, that the thing that just happened is the most important thing, is the decisive thing.

And so I don't think this is going to be the final word or the final indicator of anything to do with the president's retribution campaign.

For instance, if you look in Florida,

The Justice Department is putting together an investigative, prosecutive effort that's trying to pull together all these different parts of what Trump supporters argue is a great conspiracy against him, stretching back to his first campaign for president and trying to build that effort specifically under the auspices of Judge Aileen Cannon, the judge who threw out the charges against Donald Trump.