DOCKET ALERTS:

Minnesota passed the "Grandparents' Happy Hour" law making it legal to serve wine to grown adults in assisted living. Skol!

The DOJ's Civil Division got tossed out of court in Massachusetts because it failed to respond to a motion to dismiss its lawsuit over the state's refusal to issue undercover license plates to ICE.

Former Olympian David Hearn moved to dismiss the charge that he vandalized the Reflecting Pool since the government has drained the pool and is now destroying the evidence.

Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued a temporary restraining order blocking the merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers in the antitrust case brought by California and eleven other states.

DOOFUS OF THE DAY: Senator Darline Graham Nordone who decided she'd like to be a real senator, not just a placeholder for her brother until the election. So now she's ditched her last name and gotten the nod from Trump.

MAIN SHOW:

Trump's defamation trollsuit against the BBC is going terribly. Who knew he'd have give discovery, not just take it? So now the DOJ is bigfooting in trying to save him.

There's a sealed proceeding in DC involving the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a five-judge panel created in 1996 to hear secret cases against terrorists who need to be removed from the country immediately and without process. It has heard zero cases in the past 30 years, until last week, when the Trump administration tried to use it to deport someone without process. Is this a new ONE WEIRD TRICK the government will use to shove people out of the country?

Judge Todd Eddins of the Supreme Court of Hawai'i let loose on the Supreme Court for burning down democracy in an opinion interpreting the Due Process Clause in the state's constitution. State judges are not okay!

SUBSCRIBER BONUS:

Wired Magazine has published multiple stories about the massive data Madison Square Gardens collects on its patrons. The venue has filed a defamation lawsuit against Wired, its parent company Condé Nast, and journalists Noah Shachtman, Maddy Varner, and Katie Drummond. SLAPP-ity slap!

Andrew was a guest on the "Make It Make Sense" podcast with Grant Hermes.

Andrew's episode of Make It Make Sense

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-john-roberts-broke-the-supreme-court-this-term/id1756553746?i=1000777268503

US v. Massachusetts [Undercover plates]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73400637/united-states-v-the-commonwealth-of-massachusetts/

Hearn Motion to Dismiss

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28498026-hearnmtd/

California v. Paramount-Skydance

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73606877/the-state-of-california-v-paramount-skydance-corporation/

Trump v. BBC

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72040010/trump-v-british-broadcasting-corporation/

Granillo v. Hawai'i

https://www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SCWC-22-0000740.pdf

Granillo v. Hawaii [Supreme Court of Hawaii; majority opinion]

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SCWC-22-0000740.pdf

Granillo v. Hawaii [Supreme Court of Hawaii; concurrence]

https://www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/SCWC-22-0000740con.pdf

Madison Square Gardens v. Advance Magazine Publishers [Wired/Shachtman]

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=L6rt5/_PLUS_WLpjJoHCLRczc_PLUS_A==

Alien Terrorist Removal Court [docket 2026-TRC-1]

https://www.atrc.uscourts.gov/docs/2026-TRC-1-Order.pdf

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