Emily Bazelon
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591 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Apr
Emily Bazelon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, the background here is that Letitia James, as Attorney General of New York, prosecuted Donald Trump and the Trump Organization civilly for a big, giant case of mortgage fraud.
Letitia James says that she did not commit mortgage fraud and that President Trump is going after her as an act of retribution.
You know, what you see in both of these cases is that Trump is very much explicitly on the record about wanting revenge against James and Comey and directing his Justice Department to go after them.
So that motivation is very much explicitly present.
That's separate from whether there's any criminal wrongdoing here.
But both James and Comey say that they have committed no crimes.
In twin rulings today, Judge Cameron McGowan-Curry found the appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S.
attorney was invalid and unlawful.
There's a few different things going on here.
So there's this question of whether she even had the authority to be in the job she says that she has.
And that's what derailed the case this week.
Separately from that, entirely separately, when she presented by herself to the grand jury, she made a number of big mistakes.
And those mistakes were the subject of another hearing before a different judge.
But because now the case has been dismissed based on this idea that she was improperly appointed, that other whole set of problems with the case is just like sitting there in the background.
And it will come back if an appeals court overrules anything.
This judge's ruling about Halligan's appointment or presumably if the government just starts over again and tries to refile the charges.
But yes, those separate errors are sitting there in a pretty embarrassing way for Lindsay Halligan.
I can't imagine they're off the hook because Trump cares about this so much and the Justice Department, his Justice Department, would lose a ton of face if they just fold.
So there's a couple of things that could happen.
They could appeal this kind of dry ruling about the appointment powers and see if the appeals courts answer it differently than the judge who's ruled so far.
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