Happy Monday and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon compendium of Puck’s best new reporting.

First up today, Bill Cohan chronicles First Amendment attorney Dan Novack’s ongoing, decade-long FOIA war against the F.B.I. to get the feds to release all of the Epstein files. Yes, the Justice Department released a tranche of approximately 2.7 million documents last week—but another 3 million or so are either unreleased or heavily redacted. And as Bill reports, Novack has at least one more trick up his sleeve to expose the rest.

Plus, below the fold: Dylan Byers ruminates on the future of CNN amid reports that Barry Diller was interested in buying the embattled network. Leigh Ann Caldwell hears from G.O.P. insiders about their rising frustration with Trump’s hard-line immigration architect, Stephen Miller. Julia Ioffe unearths a surreal story about a former Apprentice contestant weaponizing the State Department’s Art in Embassies program. Dan Duray gets an early readout on Art Basel’s new fair in Doha, Qatar. And Sarah Shapiro digs into a Western lifestyle brand’s $10 million bet on the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, on the pods: John Ourand rings up ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. on The Varsity to discuss the biggest off-field storylines surrounding the Super Bowl. On Impolitic, John Heilemann and Harvard legal eminence Laurence Tribe preview the key cases on the Supreme Court docket. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Jon Kelly discuss Don Lemon’s stunning arrest in Los Angeles and the latest kremlinology at CBS News.

WALL STREET

There are still another 3 million or so Epstein documents that the D.O.J. has yet to release, despite claiming its obligation has been fulfilled. Dan Novack, the enterprising First Amendment attorney who has been waging a FOIA war on the F.B.I., still has at least one last trick up his sleeve to unleash the mother lode.

MEDIA

Speculation that Barry Diller had considered buying CNN has set off another wave of panicked fever dreams surrounding the future of the network if or when WBD’s cable portfolio is severed from the studios and streaming mothership. Is it all just industry psychobabble, or has Zaz enlisted a pal to help close his deal with Netflix?

WASHINGTON

Trump’s hard-line immigration restrictionist has become a lightning rod in the culture, and on Capitol Hill in particular. Republicans are divided among those who support Miller, those who suffer him out of fealty to the president, and an increasingly vocal group that thinks he’s going to cost them the midterms.

WASHINGTON

Erin Elmore, the former Apprentice contestant now running the Art in Embassies program, has transformed her vanity appointment—and close relationship with the Trumps—into a political weapon, defenestrating ambassadors and threatening to primary anyone who gets in her way.

ART

On the eve of Art Basel’s arrival in Doha, the fair’s inaugural artistic director, Wael Shawky, previews his vision for a more intimate regional fair—and opens up about the future of the Gulf art scene.

FASHION

The rise of Tecovas, the Western lifestyle brand making its Super Bowl debut next week, is the latest signal that Yellowstone- and Landman-inspired cowboy apparel is moving into the mainstream.

SPORTS

ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. joins John to preview the biggest off-field storylines shaping Super Bowl week, starting with the news that stunned the league: Bill Belichick falling short of first-ballot Hall of Fame induction. They also dig into the NFL’s continued push toward an 18-game season, the criminal investigation into the NFLPA, Jerry Jones’s looming succession questions in Dallas, the Washington Post layoff saga, and more.

WASHINGTON

John welcomes Harvard legal eminence Laurence Tribe back to the show to discuss the constitutional dimensions of the chaos in Minneapolis, the fragile state of the rule of law in the Trump 2.0 era, and whether the Supreme Court will salvage or sacrifice what remains of its public legitimacy with its rulings on a handful of key cases in the months ahead. Tribe also discusses his new essay in The New York Review of Books critiquing his colleague Jill Lepore’s recently published history of the U.S. Constitution.

MEDIA

After a chilling week, Jon Kelly returns to discuss the lessons from Don Lemon’s stunning arrest in Los Angeles. Then Jon and Peter highlight the similarities between Bari Weiss’s suddenly entrenched tenure and Will Lewis’s early missteps at the Post.

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