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Our mutual friend and colleague Ryan Goodman was on CBS reporting about what is happening inside the Justice Department and how it has affected judges who are overseeing some of these cases.

I keep thinking about people like you, Joyce, who worked at the Justice Department for so many years, and how there is no corresponding image to the East Wing being chomped out of the White House by a bulldozer for what’s happened to the DOJ, what’s happening right now at Main Justice, and how devastating it is when federal judges are starting to say, as Ryan Goodman suggested, I just don’t believe anything they say anymore.

Ryan Goodman’s utterly immaculate work is about “the presumption of regularity,” which is a legal presumption courts applied that said: We assume, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the Justice Department acted in good faith, and that public officials fulfill their official duties.

"We often picture ancient landscapes as static," says Goodman.

Goodman completed his portion of the work as part of his postdoctoral studies at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.