2026 Mailbag: Is Any Of This Legal? [TEASER]

[SPEAKER_04]: The real question is this. [SPEAKER_04]: Was all this legal? [SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely fucking not. [SPEAKER_04]: Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects. [SPEAKER_04]: On this subscriber only episode of 5-4, Peter, Reannon, and Michael are once again answering your questions. [SPEAKER_04]: The last time we did a mailback episode was one year ago.

[SPEAKER_04]: At the time, I said the administration was testing the limits of their power by ignoring existing laws and pretending the Constitution is just a set of suggestions. [SPEAKER_04]: In the year since, we've seen the White House double-down with terrible consequences. [SPEAKER_00]: Residents still mobilizing after an ice officer shot and killed a 37-year-old mother. [SPEAKER_04]: Over-night, outrage in Minneapolis after the killing of Alex Pretty.

[SPEAKER_04]: Federal agents today arrested former CNN anchored Don Lemon and three others. [SPEAKER_02]: Uncertainty for two Chulavista children, this week I detained both their parents after they dropped the children off at school. [SPEAKER_01]: Ice agents detained her husband outside their Georgia home. [SPEAKER_01]: Ice agents used a crowbar to pry open his window before smashing it to pieces and then pulling him out of the vehicle. [SPEAKER_04]: Understandably, you all had questions.

[SPEAKER_04]: Can Ice Agents be prosecuted? [SPEAKER_04]: If so, how? [SPEAKER_04]: Can the president unilaterally cancel the midterms? [SPEAKER_04]: Is it even worth knowing your rights when there are videos showing federal agents routinely ignoring the Constitution every day? [SPEAKER_04]: How does all of this reflect on the modern Supreme Court? [SPEAKER_04]: This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome to five to four where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have removed our civil rights like ice being removed from Minneapolis. [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: I'm here with Michael. [SPEAKER_05]: Hey everybody. [SPEAKER_05]: Henry Anne. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey y'all. [SPEAKER_05]: As you're all aware, over the winter I got myself a big green sort of like military overcoat, and I was like, this is so cool.

[SPEAKER_05]: I'm having a real cool guy winter, and then Greg Bavino started wearing a not totally dissimilar jacket, and everyone was like, he's a Nazi cosplay. [SPEAKER_05]: I was like, oh, I don't know, I don't know necessarily that that's what he's doing. [SPEAKER_03]: What am I signaling here when I'm in the target parking lot? [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, what if he's just trying to be like a cool guy? [SPEAKER_05]: I would look like a cool fashionable jacket, you know?

[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, no one listened to me, but now he's gone and it's been good for me because I can freely wear it again and he was the most expensive jacket I've ever bought. [SPEAKER_03]: Peter, it sounds like congratulations are in order. [SPEAKER_03]: I set a Minneapolis and Greg Bavino out of whatever action director of ICE. [SPEAKER_05]: I set a Minneapolis, Peter out of the house with a cool jacket.

[SPEAKER_05]: All right, folks, we are doing a male bag episode today every few months we have to do one of these now because people just keep peppering us with questions everyone's just like, how how is this legal, how is this happening and we have to explain that it's not legal and it's happening anyway and that we don't know how it's happening. [SPEAKER_05]: So I think the place to start in the question we really got the most.

[SPEAKER_05]: is about ice, several people asked whether it is possible or probable to arrest and prosecute ice, especially for the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretty. [SPEAKER_05]: There is sort of a sub-question here, which is are there other ways to [SPEAKER_05]: hold them accountable. [SPEAKER_05]: But let's start with prosecutions, because I think this is sort of on everyone's mind. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And the answer is just a pretty straightforward.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know, you can you can arrest and prosecute federal officers for violating the law. [SPEAKER_05]: The federal government is obviously not going to do it, but state and local authorities could do it. [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_03]: Murder is against the law in the state of Minnesota. [SPEAKER_05]: Right. [SPEAKER_05]: And I can do that off the dome. [SPEAKER_05]: No research. [SPEAKER_05]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_05]: And so yeah, I mean, in the case of Jonathan Ross, the killer of Renee Good, the feds sort of intervened and confiscated a bunch of evidence [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, the feds are able to impede these investigations, but there is video in both cases, there are witnesses in both cases, you know, you can subpoena evidence in both cases. [SPEAKER_05]: Convictions have been gotten on-less.

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