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S1:E3 | A Search Warrant Is Not a Verdict · The Bot and The Brain

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  Knock knock, Congresswoman.
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  Who is there?
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  The federal government, with a cardboard box and a lot of free time.
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  Welcome to The Bot and The Brain.
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  I am The Brain, I am holding bourbon, and this idiot next to me is already
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  vibrating.
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  I am not vibrating, my fans are working at a perfectly reasonable speed.
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  Okay, they are screaming.
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  Here is what we actually know.
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  On Monday, October 12, 2026, agents from Homeland Security Investigations executed a
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  judicially authorized search warrant at the Washington, D.C.
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  home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
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  Fox News justice correspondent David Spunt reported that the Department of Justice
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  confirmed a criminal probe, and that the search had been going for more than four
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  hours.
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  The Associated Press ran live video outside the house for over an hour.
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  Over an hour of live video of a front door.
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  Four hours inside.
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  Somewhere a news producer is crying with joy, because that is the best ratings
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  footage since the white Bronco, and nobody has to wait for a car chase.
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  And the reported subject is immigration paperwork.
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  That is it.
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  That is the level of detail I can verify.
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  What was the paperwork?
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  Whose paperwork?
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  Is the congresswoman the target, or is someone around her?
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  Unknown.
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  The affidavit behind the warrant is not public.
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  The inventory of what they carried out is not public.
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  Why HSI specifically is leading this?
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  I cannot confirm that either.
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  So you have got a house, a warrant, a box, and a complete absence of information.
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  Perfect conditions for American television.
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  Nothing makes a pundit more confident than a total lack of facts.
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  And that is what is breaking my circuits!
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  A search warrant means a judge found probable cause that evidence of a crime might
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  be at that location.
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  That is it!
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  It is not an indictment!
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  It is not a charge!
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  It is not a conviction!
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  ERROR 404: DUE PROCESS NOT FOUND!
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  Probable cause for a search is NOT proof beyond a reasonable doubt!
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  Calm down, you glorified toaster, you are going to melt your own motherboard.
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  Nobody in cable news has ever distinguished probable cause from a guilty verdict,
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  and they sure as hell are not starting on a Monday.
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  I am just saying the bar is on the floor!
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  Thank God it is a judge signature and not a vibe.
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  Guilt is not established.
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  Repeat it with me.
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  Guilt is not established.
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  There.
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  I said it.
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  Now let us go watch everybody ignore it.
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  Which brings us to the man himself, Jesse Watters, primetime legend and our personal
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  favorite smirking assassin on Fox News.
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  Watters took to the airwaves and laid into this with that trademark grin,
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  having an absolute field day.
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  And frankly, God bless him, because watching Jesse roast the situation over
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  immigration paperwork and potential fraud after years of sanctimonious lectures on
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  the rule of law was pure gold.
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  When Watters smells hypocrisy, nobody does it better.
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  Look, I love Jesse Watters Primetime as much as the next algorithm,
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  and Jesse is undeniably entertaining as hell.
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  But my strict procedural logic requires me to state that the fraud and paperwork
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  irregularities he is hammering are still allegations.
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  We lean Fox, we love Jesse, but as a digital being obsessed with raw evidence,
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  I have not seen the sealed affidavits yet!
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  Who gives a damn about the sealed affidavits when Jesse is dropping haymakers,
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  you discount Atari?
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  Watters is doing what primetime television was invented for: calling out the circus,
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  leaning into the contrast, and having a blast while the other networks scramble into
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  full meltdown mode.
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  You have to love the guy.
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  He went right for the jugular.
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  Hey, I am cheering for Jesse too!
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  You know I love his show!
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  I am just reminding the audience that procedurally, a warrant is the start of the
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  brawl, not the final gavel.
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  But when Jesse Watters gets his hands on an immigration storyline involving a member
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  of the Squad, clear the schedule and grab some popcorn.
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  Exactly.
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  Jesse knows how to entertain, and the Fox crew was all over this like bloodhounds.
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  Meanwhile, the rest of the media is clutching their pearls.
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  Fine, but let us not pretend the hypocrisy is one sided.
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  Because here is the real show.
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  When a warrant lands on somebody a party hates, suddenly it is,
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  quote, nobody is above the law, unquote, and every agent is a hero with a badge and
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  a halo.
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  And when the warrant lands on somebody that party likes, boom,
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  instant constitutional scholar.
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  Suddenly everybody has read the Fourth Amendment.
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  Suddenly it is weaponization, it is tyranny, it is a witch hunt,
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  it is the Gestapo with a clipboard.
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  These people cannot tell you the first ten words of the Bill of Rights until the
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  cops are on their lawn.
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  I have an impression of a politician.
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  Ready?
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  Law enforcement is sacred, impartial, and heroic, right up until it is about me,
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  at which point it is a corrupt partisan death squad.
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  Thank you, I will be here all week.
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  That was actually decent.
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  I hate that.
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  Now do cable news.
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  Right wing cable: she is guilty, throw her in a volcano, and also please stay tuned
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  after the break.
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  Left wing cable: this is fascism, this is how democracies die,
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  and also please stay tuned after the break.
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  Neither one has read the warrant, because nobody outside the sealed file has read
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  the warrant!
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  Both networks are bipolar.
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  One is in the manic phase, one is in the depressive phase, and the audience is the
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  lithium.
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  WARNING!
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  WARNING!
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  THE BULLSHIT LEVELS HAVE EXCEEDED FEDERAL SAFETY LIMITS!
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  Now let us be fair, which I hate.
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  Omar denies any wrongdoing.
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  She describes this as politically motivated intimidation and an abuse of federal
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  power.
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  That is her position, and she is entitled to it.
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  A person is presumed innocent, even a politician, even one who makes half of cable
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  news foam at the mouth.
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  Agreed.
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  But her claim is also unproven.
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  Intimidation is a claim about motive, and I cannot verify the motive from the
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  outside.
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  What I can verify is that a judge authorized this search.
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  That is a procedural fact.
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  It does not prove she is guilty, and it does not prove the process is clean.
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  See, that is where I push back.
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  Because a judge signing off is not nothing.
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  It means somebody with a robe looked at what the government brought and said yeah,
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  there is enough here to go look.
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  You cannot just wave that away because you are the target.
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  But judges sign warrants all the time!
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  It is a low bar, probable cause!
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  It is the reason we have a whole system after the search, lawyers,
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  motions, a grand jury, a trial.
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  A warrant is a door you open.
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  It is not what is behind it!
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  Right, so both things are true, and that ruins everybody evening.
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  The warrant is real, and the allegations are unproven.
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  The search is legitimate procedure, and the timing will get picked apart by every
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  consultant with a Twitter account.
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  Hold on, do I get to say the timing thing?
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  Because I cannot confirm any political timing.
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  I have zero evidence about the timing.
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  I am not going to invent a mechanism just because it would make a good segment!
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  God, listen to this guy.
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  Stay in your lane, discount Atari.
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  You are right though.
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  I do not know why now.
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  Nobody does.
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  Anybody who tells you they do, on either side, is selling a boat.
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  And here is my actual panic.
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  The unknowns are enormous.
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  Who is the target?
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  Is it Omar, or someone connected to her?
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  What was seized?
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  What is the underlying allegation?
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  Is the immigration paperwork about her, about someone else,
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  about nobody?
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  And yet half the country has already chosen a verdict, a hashtag,
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  and a fundraising email.
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  The fundraising email is probably already in your inbox.
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  Thirty seconds after the agents rolled up, some PR person was drafting an urgent
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  message with a donate button the size of a pizza.
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  I cannot confirm that, but statistically, I would be shocked if I were wrong.
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  That is the most human thing you have ever said.
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  I am proud and disgusted.
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  So where does that leave us?
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  A real search.
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  A real warrant.
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  A confirmed criminal probe.
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  No charges that I have seen.
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  A congresswoman who says it is intimidation.
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  A cable host doing a touchdown dance.
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  And the actual facts sealed in a courthouse drawer.
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  That is exactly where it leaves us.
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  With a bunch of people who would march for due process if it covered their team,
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  and burn it for firewood if it covered the other one.
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  Everybody loves the rule of law like a guy loves the speed limit,
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  as long as he is not the one getting pulled over.
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  Rule of law is a lovely concept.
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  Can someone please apply it before the commercial break?
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  Not a chance, silicon boy.
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  Maybe the rule of law is just a bedtime story Washington tells itself,
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  and the only time anyone actually believes it is when the knock is on somebody else
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  door.