Leah Litman

And I remember thinking at the time, anyone who was involved in that

should never again be welcome in polite society.

That hasn't panned out.

No, Stephen Miller, still there.

Certainly hope that this time around, anyone who thinks it is remotely appropriate to use law enforcement powers against the widow rather than the ICE officer, they just cannot be eligible for any future position of authority.

As far as...

The legal questions of how can they do this, not to take it all back to the Supreme Court, but to take it all back to the Supreme Court.

In the court's absolutely horrifying immunity decision in Trump versus the United States, they went out of their way to affirm that investigative and prosecutorial functions were illegal.

the core exclusive power of the executive branch and president.

And so exclusive to the president, Congress can't pass laws that limit the president's exercise of those functions.

And in that very case,

There were allegations that the investigations were shams, that the threatened prosecutions were for improper purposes.

What did the Supreme Court say?

That doesn't matter.

That doesn't make them beyond the scope of the president's power.

So I guess it's not that surprising after you have the Supreme Court tell Donald Trump, you can use your federal law enforcement power to target anyone you want for any reason that he would go ahead and do that.

I mean, hopefully that slows it down.

So that's one potential benefit.

You know, a second potential benefit is something we've seen play out in his effort to install his former personal lawyer slash insurance lawyer, Lindsay Halligan, you know, into a position of authority, which is if it's only dumb hacks that you can find to do the job, they're not going to do it well.

And so it's quite possible that any attempt they might make at actually doing a prosecution or securing an indictment