A federal judge in Chicago caught the Justice Department in a staggering web of misconduct and attempted coverup —and she has the receipts to prove it. This week District Judge April Perry admonished the US Attorney prosecuting the Broadview Six for railroading a grand jury into indicting the protestors, and said she was mulling sanctions against the attorneys involved. On this week’s Amicus Plus bonus episode, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discuss the many ways this botched prosecution reveals how dangerous Trump’s DOJ has become. Later: what a strange 5-4 split in a SCOTUS death penalty case signals for the future of a long-standing prohibition on executing the mentally impaired.

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