Scott MacFarlane

They came to be in the 1960s during the civil rights movement.

They may want the assistant attorney general less in front of a Twitter account and more out there serving Americans.

All that notwithstanding, if you've got a Department of Justice that is trying to mechanize its leverage to go after things that ensure diversity in American institutions, what does that leave you with?

A monolithic voice in positions of power, which serves nobody's interest in ensuring that everybody's included.

They've done that so far.

In several occasions in the last few weeks, Don, things filed by the Trump administration, be it civil rights or the criminal division, that's a firewall that we've seen where judges have said, no, this doesn't work.

This isn't going to fly with me no matter what political arguments or online arguments you make.

But you know what?

The other like.

The other firewall has been, sadly, not in your case yet, but the grand jurors.

Grand jurors have said, no, this is preposterous.

This is stupid for us to charge somebody for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent.

No, this is stupid for us to try to charge the attorney general of New York.

for some alleged scheme in Virginia that doesn't seem to be at all a scheme or criminal.

The grand jurors have been firewalls.

And, you know, there's been this expectation through the years, Don, that grand jurors will say yes to anything, that, you know, prosecutors put a case up there, they're going to say yes.

No, I think it's been proven that grand jurors will say no when the arguments are that flimsy and that flat.

A different firewall is going to kick in in Minnesota at some point.

Grand jurors weren't it, but judges and grand jurors have seemed to be the resistance that Congress has not been against some of these controversial moves.

You know what I'm saying?