Can They Do That? We Ask Judge Nancy Gertner

As we've been following here on WBUR, police arrested 10 adult men and one juvenile involved in last weekend's armed standoff on route 128 in Wakefield. On Tuesday, it was chaotic in court during the arraignment of some of the men involved. Seven men are being held without bail, and dangerousness hearings are scheduled Friday.

Also on our minds: vaccine mandates to return to work, here in the Commonwealth, and the legal implications of that.

On both stories, we wonder: Can they do that? We ask Nancy Gertner, retired federal judge, senior lecturer at Harvard Law School, and WBUR Legal Analyst.