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McCABE: “But it’s also not a — you know, it’s not an unreasonable complaint. There’s plenty of evidence in the complaint to get you beyond the probable cause phase, which is where we are right. (...) And I think, when you start looking at how the judge was treated after the events that led to the charge, so where and when and how she was arrested and the fact that she was arrested at the courthouse rather than her own residence, the fact that she was placed in a jail cell for hours before her arraignment was called in the court later in the afternoon. These things are unprecedented. Typically, upstanding members of the community who have no criminal history and aren’t accused of a violent act are allowed to self-surrender at the time of their arraignment. The fact that they did not offer that courtesy to her and instead went out of their way to treat her harshly, I believe is an active performative cruelty on behalf of the Department of Justice, which is not the way any Department of Justice should be acting.”