Donald Trump is weaponizing the government against his enemies. But at least there are no national guard troops on the streets of Chicago or Portland. And a trial judge in California blocked Russ Vought’s efforts to burn down every federal agency during the shutdown. Plus, Alex Jones is still and always a loser.

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Candace Owens Can’t Go To Australia

https://www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/default/files/eresources/2025-10-15/HCA/Farmer%20v%20Minister%20for%20Home%20Affairs%20%28S160-2024%29%20%5B2025%5D%20HCA%2038.pdf

AFGE/AFL-CIO v. OMB

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71502325/american-federation-of-government-employees-afl-cio-v-united-states/

Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-irs-investigations-left-leaning-groups-democratic-donors-612a095e

The Tish James Indictment Looks Like Country Fried BS

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-tish-james-indictment-looks-like

Illinois v. Trump (Seventh Circuit)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71608106/state-of-illinois-v-donald-j-trump/

Chicago Headline Club v. Noem

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559589/chicago-headline-club-v-noem

US v. Bolton

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17254525/united-states-v-bolton/

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The Justice Department continues to be a sh*tshow, with the indictment of James Comey already hitting the skids. Whodathunk that putting Trump’s personal insurance lawyer in charges of criminal prosecutions would work out badly! Justice Amy Coney Barrett heads to Fox News to flog her book and express her disappointment that we are all being so mean about the shadow docket. Please do not let up! And Trump’s efforts to flood the streets of blue states with troops makes its way through the courts.

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US v. Kevontae Stewart

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71380817/united-states-v-stewart/

Alex Jones SCOTUS Docket

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-268.html

Justice Barrett Fox Interview

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6382650913112

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/judicial-crisis-supreme-court-trump.html

Illinois v. Trump [District Court]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559895/state-of-illinois-v-trump

Illinois v. Trump [Seventh Circuit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71608106/state-of-illinois-v-donald-j-trump/

Oregon v. Trump

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481149/state-of-oregon-v-trump/?order_by=desc

US v. Comey

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459120/united-states-v-comey/?order_by=desc

Illinois v. FEMA (D. R.I.) [docket via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59597/

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Liz and Andrew talk to Professor Eric Segall of Georgia state University College of Lawl. He teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II, and is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. How can one teach ConLaw when the Supreme Court is burning down precedent? We’ll find out!

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How the Hell To Teach Constitutional Law in 2025: Twenty Questions and No Answers

https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/08/how-hell-to-teach-constitutional-law-in.html

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The government may be shut down, but ICE is not. We’ll compare Trump’s efforts to deploy the National Guard in LA, DC, Portland, and Chicago. In better news, Alex Jones looks to be at the end of the road with his plot to use bankruptcy to shield his company from the Sandy Hook parents. And we have breaking news in Law and Chaos’s FOIA suit against the DOJ. Plus for subscribers: Was Lindsey Halligan lawfully appointed as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia? Asking for James Comey.

Links:

Res Ipsa Media v. DOJ

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71236135/res-ipsa-media-llc-v-department-of-justice/

First Circuit Birthright Citizenship Ruling

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca1.52521/gov.uscourts.ca1.52521.00108348619.0.pdf

Oregon v. Trump

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481149/state-of-oregon-v-trump/

Newsom v. Trump (N.D. Cal.) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70496361/newsom-v-trump

Newsom v. Trump (Ninth Circuit)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70527602/newsom-et-al-v-trump-et-al

Alex Jones Bankruptcy

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66583024/alexander-e-jones-and-official-committee-of-unsecured-creditors/

DOJ FY 2026 Contingency Plan

https://www.justice.gov/jmd/media/1377216/dl

National Review - Lindsey Halligan - Alito 1986 memo

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.578930/gov.uscourts.njd.578930.61.1.pdf

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Mike Lindell is having a bad day in court, and Alex Jones is about to. The Supreme Court decides that Trump can steal Congress’s power over the budget, Constitution be damned. And Justin Baldoni returns to teach us all how NOT to do civil procedure.

Links:

Oregon v. Trump Docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481149/state-of-oregon-v-trump

Smartmatic v. Lindell Docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/62605230/smartmatic-usa-corp-v-lindell

Alex Jones Bankruptcy Docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66583024/alexander-e-jones-and-official-committee-of-unsecured-creditors

YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Brought by Trump

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-to-settle-lawsuit-brought-by-trump-808f6823

Lively v. Wayfarer

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69510553/lively-v-wayfarer-studios-llc/?order_by=desc

SCOTUS ruling in State v. AIDS Vaccine Coalition motion for stay

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a269_bp7c.pdf

AIDS Vaccine Coalition v. State (trial court docket) [Docket via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333.145.0_4.pdf

White House “pocket rescission” announcement (Aug. 29, 2025)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/08/historic-pocket-rescission-package-eliminates-woke-weaponized-and-wasteful-spending/

Impoundment Control Act of 1974

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-114HPRT96107/pdf/CPRT-114HPRT96107.pdf

GAO opinion on Ukraine impoundment

https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/703909.pdf

GAO Opinion Letter B-330330 (December 10, 2018)

https://www.gao.gov/products/b-330330

White House EO Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/

NSPM -7

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

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After Trump appoints his lackey Lindsey Halligan US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, he finally gets his indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. But will it stand in front of a real judge? We break down the grand jury process, and why they say a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. And for subscribers, Andrew and Liz explain how the DOJ’s internet brain poisoning is jeopardizing the Luigi Mangione prosecution.

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US v. Comey

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459120/united-states-v-comey/

Hook v. Rave (D. S.D.) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71428718/hook-v-rave/

US v. Mangione [District Docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69486519/united-states-v-mangione/ 

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Domestically, Tom Homan takes bribes and Republicans just don’t care. Internationally, the Trump administration is engaged in international war crimes by murdering foreign civilians, and… Republicans still just don’t care. Learn why this is an Article I Constitutional crisis with guest Brian Finucane.

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Brian Finucane, International Crisis Group

https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/people/brian-finucane

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The Trump administration goes mask-off with its attack on Jimmy Kimmel. If you’d told us the Man Show guy would become a First Amendment avatar … we’d never have believed you. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has torched its cred with all the judges, even the FedSoc ones! But Lisa Cook is still a Fed governor!

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SCOTUS Docket Lisa Cook

https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/docketfiles/html/public\25a312.html

Barco Mercado v. Noem

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71065570/barco-mercado-v-noem/

L.G.M.L. v. Noem

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240524/lgml-v-noem

Trump tries to stick up The New York Times with a water gun

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-15-billion

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The Department of Homeland Security has decreed that we will all learn what chain refoulement is … by watching them try to rendition wave after wave of immigrants. Andrew and Liz will explain how that’s totally illegal. Plus, Newsmax is suing Fox News, again.

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Newsmax v. Fox [Wisconsin Docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71323347/newsmax-broadcasting-llc-v-fox-corporation

Newsmax v. Fox [Florida Docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71258079/newsmax-broadcasting-llc-v-fox-corporation

Biden v. Byrne

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67990012/robert-hunter-biden-v-patrick-m-byrne

Comey v. DOJ

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71348216/comey-v-united-states-department-of-justice

American Federation Of Government Employees, AFL-CIO v. United States Office of Personnel Management

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69655364/american-federation-of-government-employees-afl-cio-v-united-states/

D.A. v. Noem

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71323714/da-v-noem

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District and Circuit Court judges are in more or less open revolt over the Supreme Court’s abuse of the shadow docket. Perhaps Justice Gorsuch shouldn’t have implied that they were all stupid and insubordinate for failing to read his mind! The Trump administration insists it’s very cool and very legal to deport immigrant children in the middle of the night so long as it’s Health and Human Services doing the deporting. Will Judge Tim Kelly agree? And Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are back to teach us civil procedure. Sanctions, anyone?

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Ronny Jackson v. Weber (CA Sec State)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71235529/jackson-v-weber/

Kash Patel Makes FBI Great Again By Getting It Sued

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/kash-patel-makes-fbi-great-again

Alex Jones SCOTUS Cert Petition Docket

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-268.html

Judge Ho “Denny’s” Order

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.224134/gov.uscourts.ca5.224134.25.1.pdf

First Circuit Order, Rhode Island v. Trump

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.79.0.pdf

Judges, desperate for guidance, plead with Supreme Court justices: ‘Write an opinion’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/11/supreme-court-emergency-rulings-judges-00558058

L.G.M.L. v. Noem

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71240524/lgml-v-noem

Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69510553/lively-v-wayfarer-studios-llc/?order_by=desc

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