Howard Blum

Paul.

OK, Megan, if I can make a comment on that.

Yeah, go ahead.

So so the timeline here is that this event happened on Sunday morning.

On Sunday evening, Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon put out on X that she had dispatched prosecutors from her office, so Civil Rights Division prosecutors, to Minnesota.

Monday was Martin Luther King Day.

On Monday, she posted on X that her prosecutors were working with the FBI.

So on Monday, they were working on this.

They presented the affidavits in support of a proposed criminal complaint on Wednesday.

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.