“Backstage” is a special segment of Now & Then exclusively for members of CAFE Insider. In this installment, Heather and Joanne discuss their early-life understandings of Nazism and their fears about the present. 

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Programming Note: Next week the CAFE Insider podcast will air on Wednesday, November 9. Tune in to hear Preet and Joyce react to the results of the election and what they will mean for the legal landscape.

On the CAFE Insider docket this week:  

– The latest developments in the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, including the strength of the federal and state charges brought against the suspect, the new information about the attack revealed in the criminal complaint, and the extent to which toxic, political rhetoric led to the attack;

– The recruitment of an experienced national security prosecutor to join the Department of Justice’s Mar-a-Lago documents investigation;

– The challenges brought by a number of former Trump administration officials, including Mark Meadows, Pat Cipollone, and Pat Philbin, to avoid testifying in investigations involving Trump;

– The start of the criminal, tax fraud trial against the Trump Organization in New York; and

– The Supreme Court oral arguments in cases challenging affirmative action policies in college admissions.

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“Backstage” is a special segment of Now & Then exclusively for members of CAFE Insider. In this installment, Heather and Joanne discuss the relationship between direct mail and the truth. 

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On the CAFE Insider docket this week:  

– The January 6 Committee’s subpoena to former President Donald Trump for testimony and document production; 

– The new ruling in which a federal judge wrote that Trump included false allegations of voter fraud in a Georgia lawsuit despite being informed by his lawyers that the data was incorrect;

– The prison sentence Steve Bannon received for defying a January 6 Committee subpoena;

– Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s decision to temporarily freeze the subpoena to Senator Lindsey Graham from a Georgia grand jury in the investigation into interference in the 2020 election; 

– The reports indicating that prosecutors believe there is sufficient evidence to charge Trump with obstruction in relation to the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation; and

– Special Counsel John Durham’s failed prosecution of an analyst who contributed to the Steele Dossier.

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We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at [email protected] with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. 

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In this bonus from Stay Tuned, presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Preet discuss the historical precedent for the workings of the January 6th committee.

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Joyce Vance is a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, a professor at the University of Alabama Law School, and an MSNBC legal analyst. Notes from Joyce are exclusive to the CAFE Insider membership. For the text of this note, along with the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE's website.

“Backstage” is a special segment of Now & Then exclusively for members of CAFE Insider. In this installment, Heather and Joanne discuss the complicated dynamics of teaching history to college students in 2022. 

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