justice department. she said this defendant heard these things from powerful men and women in the halls of the u.s. capitol and state capitols. amy berman jackson is an interesting judge because these really, in the last, you know, year, discovered the power of not just her rulings but the power of her pen to talk about what s happening in this country, to talk about what s happening to its institutions. you ve seen her do it repeatedly when it comes to exposing wrongdoing and misconduct at the justice department in a number of cases that happen to be in her courtroom and i think you see her doing it now. i think what she s trying to do is in the same way she sounded the alarm about the corruption she saw at the justice department, she s trying to sound the alarm to the country about what is happening here and put the weight of a distinguished federal judge behind the fact that this is not you know, this isn t a problem that s over. this is a problem that s ongoing, and if we don t