Sep 5, 2026 · 49 min
Weissmann challenges Cannon’s Mar-a-Lago ruling
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The episode connects Trump-related investigations, privilege disputes, and reproductive-rights politics to larger questions about executive accountability and judicial power.
- 1Andrew Weissmann explains why the Justice Department appealed Judge Cannon’s Mar-a-Lago ruling and sought to protect its investigations.
- 2The hosts examine Steve Bannon’s New York indictment, Save America PAC subpoenas, and the legal distinctions shaping both matters.
- 3Michigan’s reproductive-rights ballot measure becomes a test of partisan strategy, turnout, and abortion politics before the November election.
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Andrew Weissmann lays out why the Justice Department viewed Judge Cannon’s Mar-a-Lago ruling as threatening both intelligence review and the criminal investigation.
The brief
Alison Gill and Dana Goldberg survey September 2022 headlines before turning to Steve Bannon’s New York indictment and the alleged donor fraud behind We Build the Wall.
The hosts connect a federal grand jury’s scrutiny of Donald Trump’s Save America PAC with Michigan’s reproductive-rights ballot measure and the partisan fight around it.
Andrew Weissmann explains why the Justice Department appealed Judge Eileen Cannon’s Mar-a-Lago ruling, balancing intelligence risks against an ongoing criminal investigation.
Weissmann also challenges the special-master process, privilege-review filings, and omissions he says distorted the dispute over the seized records.
The episode closes with corrections, listener mail, a Pennsylvania postcard campaign, and the show’s lighter good-news and farewell segments.
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