Ep. 268: The Shifting Politics Of Courthouse Arrests

Federal prosecutors’ decision to drop charges against a Massachusetts state judge accused of impeding the arrest of an undocumented immigrant in her courtroom turned up the heat on an already fraught case, stoking fears that quickly changing political winds played an outsized role in the matter from the start. Law360’s Boston courts reporter Chris Villani joins the show this week to break down the case and the fallout from the DOJ’s decision to stand down. Also this week, financial regulators crack down on texting bankers, and lawsuits challenging the Biden administration’s plans for student loan forgiveness begin to roll in. Finally, the convicted fraudster known as Anna Delvey in Netflix’s ‘Inventing Anna’ finds herself at odds with her former counsel.