25 March—It was good, when I woke up this morning and looked out the bedroom window, to see a dozen young turkeys parading in single file along the wood line at the bottom of the pasture.

On the subject and at the risk of offending turkeys, it appears that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia (Ginni to her friends, of whom I am delighted not to be one), has become as embarrassing to Clarence as Clarence has always been to himself.

Mrs. Thomas was actually so stupid as to text Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, urging him to overturn the results of the 2020 election? Text? More than once? A justice’s wife? Inbleedingcredible! Did Meadows need urging from her? And didn’t it occur to Virginia that somebody in her position simply doesn’t do things like that—especially when they can easily be traced back to her?

And did Clarence know what Virginia was doing?

At the risk of offending turkeys even more, consider Manhattan’s newly elected district attorney Alvin Bragg. He decided not to seek a felony indictment against Donald Trump despite plentiful evidence, the likelihood of prevailing at trial (and appeal), and the advice of two experienced assistant DAs, both of whom have resigned because of Bragg’s stupid decision.

Mark Pomerantz, hired by Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., specifically for the Trump investigation and prosecution, said in his letter of resignation, “[Trump’s] financial statements were false, and he has a long history of fabricating information relating to his personal finances and lying about his assets to banks, the national media, counterparties, and many others, including the American people. The team that has been investigating Mr. Trump harbors no doubt about whether he committed crimes — he did.”

Pomerantz further told Bragg, “The investigation has been suspended indefinitely. Of course, that is your decision to make. I do not question your authority to make it, and I accept that you have made it sincerely. However, a decision made in good faith may nevertheless be wrong. I believe that your decision not to prosecute Donald Trump now, and on the existing record, is misguided and completely contrary to the public interest. I therefore cannot continue in my current position.”

Bragg’s office, however, maintains that the investigation is still on. So what can we expect? What do we know? What can we do?

My first thought upon learning about DA Bragg’s action was that he had been bought off by Trump—simply because that’s what criminals do to get their way with politicians and the law. And an elected district attorney like Alvin Bragg is a politician as well as a lawyer. But because (or even though?) Bragg must think like a politician and can’t be as stupid as Mrs. Thomas, on second thought, Trump didn’t buy him off. And I doubt that his current fixer even tried.

On the subject of fixers, Michael Cohen, convicted of doing everything you’d expect Donald Trump’s fixer to do but (understandably) not pardoned by his former boss but now out of the slammer anyway, says he’s “extremely disappointed” that Bragg called off the indictment. That makes at least two of us. “Had they put me on the stand,” Cohen said, “it is a belief of Pomerantz, Dunne, and myself that he would have been convicted.” That makes at least four of us.

And hope springs eternal . . .