Howard Blum

So they had 48 hours to gather whatever information they could.

and put that in the affidavit.

The magistrate rejected the affidavit.

They then made the effort to go seek discretionary review.

And the Magistrates Act provides that a district court judge may review any decision made by a magistrate.

So he didn't have to do it.

But his letter, I mean, I read his letter, got into a little bit of a discussion online over it.

It seemed to suggest that

that he didn't think he had the discretion to do it.

And then the government ran to the Eighth Circuit with a petition for it of mandamus to order him to do it.

Now, the commentary about the judge having said there's no probable cause is based upon that initial affidavit filed in 48 hours.

We're now eight days after that.

The government has had the opportunity in eight days to accumulate a tremendous amount of more information, interviewing people that were there, interviewing people that were there, getting their hands on communications with grand jury subpoenas.

We don't know yet, but they probably even went and tried to get and maybe did get a search warrant, which you would need to go through open emails sometimes.

So we're eight days down the road from the information that those judges were presented.

And what those judges concluded eight days ago is unbelievable.

irrelevant to what this happens.

I agree with them too.

And I think it's really interesting that for once all four families are uniting to make a point.

And I think their point is not specifically against WSU, Washington State University, but they want to establish once and for all that students, when they go,