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what is law, really // opinions are my own // he/him chicago, law, politics, games, beer, etc

Cobbed Up + Brendan being a goober in the back (I love him)
TikTok advertising the Vybes app
Wrigley video board. Guy's name is Dillon Dingler
Wrigley Field, Cubs game
bro thinks he's on the team but it's trump
it's my own name and number on my phone bank prompt
Alex and me in front of the Wrigley Marquee
Sold out Wrigley Field for Noah Kahan
platner drops out https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/2075009677495058687
An entire fridge packed full of beer from Revolution Brewing. There is an assortment of sours, lagers, IPAs, and more. Also some THC soda.
84/16 Woke / Chud 41/59 Techbro / Neo-Luddite 58/42 Hopepilled / Doomer 89/11 Davos / Dubai
The Cab set in the background, a selfie of me holding up a guitar pick
selfie on the webcam software in daylight
an image in the style of an album cover. text reads "roof beers 2026 vol. 1"
It's 82 in Chicago and I'm on the roof with beer and the boombox
THE COURT: A few points. My turn.
MR. BOUTROS: Yes, Your Honor. If I could, Your Honor, be heard. First, perhaps this will moot a lot of the deadlines that Your Honor has to set because I'm up here to dismiss the information. And in doing so, I want to also, with the Court's permission, address some of the items that came up this morning. And so with the Court's indulgence, I'd ask to be heard. THE COURT: Yes. Let me ask first, is that dismissal with prejudice? MR. BOUTROS: With prejudice. THE COURT: That will be granted. And you may be heard. MR. BOUTROS: Thank you, Your Honor. So while this proceeding was taking place earlier this morning, I was actually in the chief judge's courtroom swearing in new AUSAs. So it was ironic as this was happening that we were celebrating six new AUSAs being sworn in today, three in the civil division and three in the criminal. I came down from that to learn that Your Honor was understandably quite upset. And I understood that Your Honor was quite likely upset when I saw the minute order that was issued, I believe, yesterday seeking today's hearing. It is my very sincere belief, Your Honor, that no prosecutor acted intentionally in misleading you, and that there was no desire to mislead the Court and no deliberate misconduct on the part of the prosecutors.
I do believe deeply in the presumption of regularity and that most government attorneys are doing the best they can to do the right thing. That trust has been broken.
First, improper prosecutorial vouching to the grand jurors, with the AUSA putting her personal credibility and trustworthiness on the line in support of the charges. Second, improper prosecutorial communications of a substantive nature with the grand jurors outside of the grand jury room And, third, the prosecutor excusing grand jurors who disagreed with the government's case from the deliberations process. Which brings me to problem Number 4, which is the fact that all of this was redacted out of the versions of the transcripts that I got. And frankly, it is that that I find the most problematic. Mistakes happen. They happen to all of us. But as I tell my children, you own it. You admit to it. You apologize for it, and you move on. What you do not do is hide it. I relied on all of you and your personal representations in this case about what has been issued in discovery, about the types of searches you have done for exculpatory material, about what arguments you will and will not make in this case. And I do that because, first of all, I treat every attorney who appears before me as an officer of the court. But secondly, because I put even more reliance on Department of Justice attorneys. Your sole goal is to do justice. Your client is justice itself.