# Court Officers Behaving Badly

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Podcast: [Serious Trouble](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851)
Published: 2026-05-29T19:31:28+00:00
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The ‘Broadview Six’ case was one of the Trump administration’s prominent prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters. Federal prosecutors in Chicago brought felony charges to fanfare, then curiously dropped them, keeping only misdemeanor counts. Now we know why: they engaged in egregious misconduct to obtain the felony indictments, which they then sought to conceal from the judge, who is not amused . For all subscribers, we discuss that and US Attorney Andrew Boutros, who issued a weird memo promising reform, and the news that his office is apparently running a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll , examining whether she lied in a deposition hundreds of miles from Chicago . For paying subscribers (upgrade your subscription now at serioustrouble.show ) this week, there’s also: * Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s big and unusual win on vindictive prosecution , which is already inspiring the Southern Poverty Law Center. * A sordid case involving an Eleventh Circuit judge whose sofa cushion required forensic testing after clerks asserted she was noisily carrying on an affair in chambers . * A free speech win for West Point faculty. * An interesting new insider trading case involving Polymarket. * A probably-too-clever motion attacking the “anti-weaponization fund,” and * More bad news for ex-JP Morgan banker Chirayu Rana .

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