Popping in for a short, quick post today with some breaking news: We finally have a ruling in the federal case concerning the exhumation of Rudy Ruiz’s remains (or, he claims, the lack thereof). Late this afternoon, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that congressional investigators for the Ruiz Commission will indeed be allowed to take a look inside Ruiz’s grave to determine whether the man who claims to be the deceased former POTUS is a fraudster or, in fact, actually a resurrected, (and possibly current) POTUS.

President Ashleigh Grantham’s Department of Justice issued a press release shortly following the ruling’s release, saying it wouldn’t continue to challenge the matter, “as we have no interest in further prolonging the search for the answers that Americans deserve.” The Grantham Administration went on to say that the president is “confident” the Ruiz Commission will find “the sadly deceased president exactly where he is expected to be: in eternal repose.”

Ruiz’s gravesite has been under heavy guard since at least late June; funerals and interments at the Beaulieu Hills Cemetery in Turner Falls have been halted for weeks, and visitors must show proof of relationship to someone underground in order to pass through the gates. Which, I have to say, don’t look particularly warm and welcoming at the moment, anyway. But if there’s any good use at all for New Life Church’s pseudo-militia, the Gospel Squad, I have to admit that it’s probably guarding Ruiz’s gravesite. (It’s is better than their usual purpose — intimidating protesters and testing the limits of Harrow restrictions on public gatherings.)

The Ruiz Commission hasn’t yet said how quickly it intends to move on the exhumation, but one has to assume they won’t let Ruiz’s body get any colder, as it were. I’m going to swing by the cemetery tonight to see what I can see — if I see something, I’ll say something.

What else I’m reading right now:

• Like the rest of the political press, I’ve been hooked on the impeachment proceedings of AG Ken Paxton.

• “Latin American abortion rights activists just notched another win in Mexico” (Vox)

• “Thousands are feared dead and thousands more are missing in flood-ravaged eastern Libya” (AP)

• “CDC recommends updated Covid shot for everyone ages 6 months and up” (NBC News)

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