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4/But there are still guardrails in place in both the criminal justice system, and the political process that can prevent injustice. This administration is hoping we will give in & accept their success as inevitable. That is what we can’t do being well informed is essential to keeping democracy.

3/Survival among Trump’s appointees is about one thing and one thing only: keeping the boss happy. Pam Bondi gets it. But keeping the boss happy is not an AG’s job. The Justice Department isn’t supposed to be a political tool in the president’s hip pocket. We are in a red zone for danger.

2/It’s not exactly clear what’s going on here or even whom the targets might be. This could be just a smoke screen, thrown up at this precise moment to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein debacle. But it’s extraordinary that we know about it at all. Grand juries are supposed to operate in secret.