Law and Chaos

Capitol police officer Shauni Kerkhoff has sued Glenn Beck’s outfit The Blaze for defamation after they said she “kinda walked like a criminal” – and she’s brought out the big guns. The Trump administration funneled another $1.25 million in taxpayer dollars to campaign stooge Carter Page. The Fifth Circuit hit us with another terrible decision, this one permitting states to force public schools to display the Ten Commandments. We wrote about it on the blog, and it’s even worse than you imagine.

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In the main show, we have an extended interview with electoral maps expert Joe Dye over the Virginia Constitutional Amendment that passed on Tuesday and will replace Virginia’s existing Congressional districts (that are 6 Democratic and 5 Republican) with a new map that is 10-1 Democratic. For now, a Republican judge in Tazewell County has enjoined the amendment.\

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We discuss the Trump administration’s bogus indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Kerkhoff v. Blaze Media, LLC [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73220023/kerkhoff-v-blaze-media-llc/

“Fifth Circuit Cosplays As Historians So It Can Burn Down The Wall Between Church And State” [lawandchaospod.com]

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/fifth-circuit-cosplays-as-historians

Rosado v. Bondi [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72259284/rosado-v-bondi/

Text of Virginia’s Constitutional Amendment

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/election-law/proposed-amendment-for-april-2026-special-election/

Existing Virginia Congressional District Map (6-5 Democratic, drawn by independent commission)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Virginia_Congressional_Districts%2C_118th_Congress_%282%29.svg

New Virginia Congressional District Map (10-1 Democratic)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Virginia_Congressional_Districts%2C_120th_Congress_%282026_Redistricting_Amendment%29.svg

Judge Hurley’s injunction issued in Tazewell County, Virginia [text via Meidas Touch News]

https://meidasnews.com/news/virginia-judge-voids-redistricting-amendment-invalidates-all-votes-from-tuesdays-special-election

Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center [via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.almd.90264/gov.uscourts.almd.90264.1.0.pdf

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The Onion’s plan to take over Infowars looks to have succeeded at last.

A judge in Rhode Island became the fifth to reject the DOJ’s voter roll grab. But Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, is undeterred. Now she’s trying to snatch ballots from Wayne County, Michigan. 

Trump’s Justice Department is negotiating with Trump’s lawyers to decide how much taxpayer money to pay Trump for the illegal disclosure of his tax returns in 2020. The statutory max is $1,000 per return. He wants $10 billion. 

The DOJ has hired Joe diGenova, a Reagan-era US Attorney, to spice up the grand conspiracy investigation into all Trump’s enemies taking place in Florida under the watchful eye of Judge Aileen Cannon.

And Pennsylvania’s intermediate appellate court rules that the state’s ban on abortion coverage under Medicaid violates both the Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment and the state constitution's equal protection provisions.

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FBI Director (for now) Kash Patel is big mad over an article in The Atlantic reporting that his drinking is freaking out everyone around him. He’s rounded up wonderweasel lawyer Jesse Binnall and filed a defamation trollsuit in DC. This will be amazing content, and we are grateful in advance!

And we’ll break down the blockbuster article from the New York Times on Chief Justice Roberts’ invention of the modern shadow docket ten years ago to stop the “emergency” of states being asked to come up with a way to reduce carbon emissions. The Times got the receipts, and they are ugly. So much for Mister Balls and Strikes!

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Alan Dershowitz is indulging his humiliation kink at the Supreme Court. He’s asking the justices to overturn the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sulllivan so he can sue CNN for reporting what he said during Trump’s first impeachment. Are his arguments good? NO. Are they hilarious? HELL YES.

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html

US v. Amore [Rhode Island voter rolls]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71982644/united-states-v-amore

AG Nessel, Governor Whitmer, Secretary Benson Denounce DOJ Demand for 2024 Ballots

https://www.michigan.gov/ag/news/press-releases/2026/04/19/ag-nessel-governor-whitmer-secretary-benson-denounce-doj-demand-for-2024-ballots

Trump v. IRS

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72207870/trump-v-internal-revenue-service/

U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/digenova-trump-lawyer-conspiracy.html

Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services

https://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/26MD19_4-20-26.pdf?cb=1

Patel v. The Atlantic Monthly Group

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73213220/patel-v-the-atlantic-monthly-group-llc/

The FBI Director Is MIA

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/

“The Shadow Papers: The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court,” New York Times, April 18, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket.html

“Read the Supreme Court’s Shadow Papers,” New York Times, April 18, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-papers.html

Dersh at SCOTUS

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-770.html

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The lady who wore a penis costume to a No Kings protest in Fairhope, Alabama was acquitted of disturbing the peace.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard referred the Ukraine Whistleblower and former Intelligence Community Inspector General to the DOJ for criminal prosecution. Crime: TBD.

US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro continues to harass the Federal Reserve. This time she sent prosecutors to bang on the door demanding to inspect the ongoing renovations.

The Trump administration uses the threat of administrative sanctions to force changes it can’t get from Congress or the courts. The Justice Department extorted $17 million from IBM — which just so happens to have billions of dollars in government contracts! — for committing DEI “fraud.” And the FTC forced brand advisers to agree not to “discriminate” against conservative media outlets.

On a more positive note, a judge in Maryland continues to block the ICE facility being constructed in the state, and Judge Richard Leon put the kibosh on Trump’s ballroom … again.

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A jury slapped Live Nation and Ticket Master in the antitrust lawsuit filed in New York. The feds noped out two days into trial, but the states who picked up the baton and ran with it. The jurors found the company liable on all counts. We talk about the ins and outs of the decision and some pending legal questions still waiting for resolution. 

We also break down a new lawsuit brought by a lawful resident of Maine with no criminal record who was seized by ICE during “Operation Catch of the Day” and brutalized. Can he sue under the Maine Civil Rights Act? And if so, is this a path forward for blue states to fill the gap left by inadequate federal laws?

Penis costume protester prevails in court

https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/

Tulsi’s “Criminal Referral” of the Ukraine Whistleblower and ICIG

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2026/4154-pr-06-26

Prosecutors from Jeanine Pirro's office tried to access Federal Reserve headquarters, but were turned away

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prosecutors-jeanine-pirro-office-visit-federal-reserve-headquarters-jerome-powell/

Justice Department settles with IBM over alleged DEI practices

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/16/justice-department-settles-with-ibm-over-alleged-dei-practices/

Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/ad-firms-settle-with-trump-ftc-over-claims-they-boycotted-conservative-media

Maryland v. Mullin

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72313096/state-of-maryland-v-mullin

National Trust for Historic Preservation v. National Park Service

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72028010/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-in-the-united-states-v-national

US v. LiveNation [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68557723/united-states-of-america-v-live-nation-entertainment-inc/?order_by=desc&page=1

Carvajal-Munoz v. Ravencamp [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73186770/carvajal-munoz-v-ravencamp/

Maine Civil Rights Act, 5 M.R.S. 4682

https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/5/title5sec4682.html

“State Law, the Westfall Act, and the Nature of the Bivens Question,” [2013 U. Penn. L. Rev.]

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1976&context=facpub

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The Fifth Circuit is crossing out laws just for sport. This time it’s a 140-year-old ban on making homebrew hooch, because YOLO.

Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over an article describing his creepy birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed. But … that dismissal was without prejudice, so he can take another swing at it. The trollsuit against the BBC is still limping along.

Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Education Josh Kleinfeld makes an interesting pitch to George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School, which is currently under investigation by … the Department of Education.

And Trump’s ballroom blitz takes a tumble in court.

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Trump discovers one weird trick to make the Presidential Records Act disappear. All he has to do is order the Office of Legal Counsel to come up with a memo saying it’s unconstitutional and — hey, presto! — he can steal or shred or delete any document he likes.

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Are we the pirates now?

Trump v. Murdoch

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch

Trump v. BBC

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

Fifth Circuit Home Distillers Ruling

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-10760-CV0.pdf

Trump Admin Lawyer Applies To Be Law School Dean, Suggests It Might Help Investigations Go Away

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/04/trump-admin-lawyer-applies-to-be-law-school-dean-suggests-it-might-help-investigations-go-away/

Ballroom Blitz Blocked

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ballroom-blitz-blocked

National Trust for Historic Preservation v. National Park Service

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73127510/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-v-nps

April 1, 2026 OLC Memorandum on the Presidential Records Act

https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1434131/dl

Judicial Watch v. NARA (“Socks Case”), 845 F.Supp.2d 288 (DC Cir. 2012)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15818036517066124081

Trump v. Mazars, 591 US 848 (2020)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2096461232780826445

Nixon v. Administrator of General Svcs. et al., 433 US 425 (1977)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11884364268460571560

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Judge Brian Murphy blocked termination of TPS for 5,000 Ethiopians.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin will continue Noem’s tradition of announcing his intention to violate the law in advance, so as to give litigants a heads up.

Michael Avenatti moves to a halfway house, remains a full-way non-lawyer.

And Democrats overperformed in Tuesday’s special elections. 

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Crazytimes continue at the DOJ as Trump’s goons jockey to replace Pam Bondi. Acting AG Todd Blanche is professing his love for Trump at the podium. US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro can’t indict a ham sandwich, and juries are telling her to take a hike. Politico says Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, is in the running for the top job. She’s currently trying to indict January 6 Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson for perjury — which has exactly nothing to do with civil rights. And Dhillon’s office keeps losing when she sues states demanding they turn over their voter rolls. 

Will Republicans invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office? (No.) But the fact that we’re asking the question shows how far we’ve come.

And in Tennessee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is trying to get his human smuggling case dismissed on grounds of vindictive prosecution. Both the government and Garcia filed their briefs this week. The government claims that prosecution started with an article in the local paper, the Tennessee Star. Which is weird because the case was reopened in Baltimore the week before the article was published — and DHS is actually the source of the reporting!

Blanche Steals Bondi's Brown Nose

https://lawandchaospod.substack.com/p/blanche-steals-bondis-brown-nose

Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division Is Investigating Star Witness Against Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/doj-cassidy-hutchinson-investigation-trump.html

Kilmar Abrego Garcia [TN criminal docket]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.104622/

2022 TN Traffic Stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Day Three of Trip That Originated in Houston, Took Detour to St. Louis, Crossed Trafficking Hubs and Areas with MS-13

https://tennesseestar.com/justice/2022-tn-traffic-stop-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-was-day-three-of-trip-that-originated-in-houston-took-detour-to-st-louis-crossed-trafficking-hubs-and-areas-with-ms-13/tpappert/2025/04/21/

African Communities Together v. Noem [TPS for Ethiopians]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72178312/african-communities-together-v-noem/

Mullin weighs using airport customs as leverage against sanctuary cities

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mullin-weighs-using-airport-customs-leverage-against-sanctuary-cities

Judge Jeanine’s Big Audition

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/judge-jeanine-pirro-attorney-general-trump-jerome-powell.html

Inside the battle to be Trump’s next attorney general

​​https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/trump-attorney-general-blanche-dhillion-pirro-00864988

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Pam Bondi is GTFO! But the mess she leaves will take a generation to repair.

The Supreme Court paved the way to disappear Steve Bannon’s conviction for contempt of Congress.

Trump commands the NCAA to quit being woke. He also has thoughts about the transfer portal.

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Judge Richard Leon! Preliminarily enjoins! Trump’s tackyass ballroom! Administration files ridiculous appeal!

Justin Baldoni is back to teach us CivPro. This time, he’s largely prevailing on his motion for judgment on the pleadings, as Judge Liman dismisses ten of Blake Lively’s 13 counts. Turns out, she never signed her contract, and the contract established that she was an employee, not an independent contractor. Since independent contractors can’t sue for discrimination under Title VII, her harassment claims are out. And the contract had a choice of law provision that agreed to abide by California law. No contract … no automatic California law.

And of course we’ll break down the Supreme Court’s birthright decision hearing. So many clips!

SCOTUS Orders List April 6, 2026

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040626zor_5iek.pdf

Trump Executive Order to De-Woke the NCAA

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/04/urgent-national-action-to-save-college-sports/

National Trust for Historic Preservation v. National Park Service [Ballroom trial docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72028010/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-in-the-united-states-v-national/

National Trust for Historic Preservation v. National Park Service [Ballroom appeal docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73127510/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-v-nps/

Lively v. Wayfarer

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

Blake Lively’s (unsigned) Actor Loan-Out Agreement [Exhibit 263]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.964.121.pdf

Birthright Citizenship SCOTUS Transcript

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/25-365_l6gn.pdf

Birthright Citizenship SCOTUS Audio

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2025/25-365

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The House Judiciary Committee wants to change the US Attorney statute to say what Attorney General Bondi claimed it did in court. This would involve the Senate voluntarily surrendering their power to vote on nominees, so … lotsa luck. Back in New Jersey, prosecutors say they’ll seek superseding indictments in cases with Alina Habba’s name on them, to remove the stink of illegitimacy.

The DOJ has quietly settled a trollsuit filed by red states and rightwing trolls, including Robert Kennedy, alleging social media censorship by the Biden administration. The Supreme Court already dropkicked this case once, so the parties agreed to simply declare victory and go home.

And Sam Bankman-Fried finds new ways to piss off judges and be sooooo weird, this time with help from his mom.

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The DOJ settled a bogus lawsuit filed by former national security advisor Mike Flynn. His malicious prosecution claims had already been tossed by a federal judge, but she let him amend his complaint again, and by then Trump was back in the White House. Is this a new template for MAGA criminals to back the truck up to the Treasury and start filling it with taxpayer cash? The January 6 defendants sure seem to think so! We’ll compare a newly filed case by rioters with a suit filed by pardoned Proud Boys.

And we’ve got a deep dive into the birthright citizenship case Trump v. Barbara, which will be argued at the Supreme Court this Wednesday.

Kennedy v. Biden

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67089647/kennedy-v-biden/?order_by=desc

Missouri v. Biden

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63290154/missouri-v-biden/?order_by=desc

US v. Bankman-Fried

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631292/united-states-v-bankman-fried

Tarrio v. US [Proud Boys Bivens Suit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70474277/tarrio-v-united-states-of-america

Sullivan v. US [J6ers FTCA Suit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73101995/sullivan-v-united-states/

Flynn v. US [Flynn FTCA]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66930673/flynn-v-united-states

Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 US 393 (1857)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3231372247892780026

US v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 US 649 (1898)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3381955771263111765

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

https://www.archives.gov/files/historical-docs/doc-content/images/indian-citizenship-act-1924.pdf

Indian Law Scholars’ Amicus Brief [via SCOTUS]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-365/399370/20260226125541217_Barbara%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

The Nationality Act of 1940 [student Note]

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1335062

Trump v. Barbara

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-365.html

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Anthropic got its injunction against the Department of Defense and Pete Hegseth’s designation of the company as a supply chain risk.

Elon Musk lost a shareholder class action suit in California over sh*tposts he made when he was trying to get out of buying Twitter. He demands a new trial because the jury made a 420 joke, and everyone knows that only he is allowed to do that. Meanwhile in Texas, X Corp lost a lawsuit against a bunch of Fortune 500 companies for daring to take their business elsewhere

Trump housing goon Bill Pulte is back on his BS, trying again to get someone to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, this time for insurance fraud.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that there will be hell to pay if he doesn’t ditch the Rooney Rule.

And Minnesota law enforcement and prosecutors sued the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security for blockading the evidence in the shootings of Renee Good, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and Alex Pretti.

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The Eighth Circuit joins the Fifth in endorsing ICE’s fakakta interpretation of the mandatory detention statute. 

Facebook/Meta/Zuckerberg loses in two courts — just like Elon/Twitter! In New Mexico, a jury ordered the company to pay $375 million in lawsuit brought by the state over unfair trade practices. And a jury in California awarded $6 million to a woman who became addicted to social media as a little girl and suffered serious emotional consequences.

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For seven months, the DOJ told a court that ICE had revised its policy on arrests inside courthouses, including immigration courts. Only … they hadn’t. Now a federal judge in New York is on the warpath, and DOJ is trying to make sure that DHS takes the fall.

Trump housing chief seeks new DOJ probe of New York AG Letitia James

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-housing-chief-doj-new-york-letitia-james-pulte

Anthropic Injunction

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.134.0.pdf

X Corp v. World Federation of Advertisers

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69017972/x-corp-v-world-federation-of-advertisers/ 

Pampena v Musk

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65412803/giuseppe-pampena-v-elon-rmusk

Florida AG Uthmeier tells NFL to end diversity-promoting ‘Rooney Rule’

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/03/26/florida-ag-uthmeier-tells-nfl-to-end-diversity-promoting-rooney-rule/

Minnesota v. DOJ

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72590076/state-of-minnesota-v-us-department-of-justice/

African Communities Together v. Lyons

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70993525/african-communities-together-v-lyons

Avila v. ICE (8th Cir. mandatory detention) [docket via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca8.113186/gov.uscourts.ca8.113186.00805482414.3.pdf

State of New Mexico v. Meta (NM state investigation of Facebook)

https://nmag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-12-05-NM-v.-Meta-et-al.-COMPLAINT-REDACTED.pdf

Smith v. TikTok (CA state lawsuit against social media addiction)

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/social-media-lawsuits-kgm-motion-denied.pdf

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Lots of legal news out of US Agency for Global Media, the parent agency for Voice of America. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Kari Lake was never legally appointed CEO of USAGM, and thus her orders shutting the sub-agencies down and firing all the employees were null and void. The government appealed, but in the sloppiest way possible. Now the agency is getting sued again for violating the firewall protecting journalistic independence, forcing the networks to air AI slop praising Trump. But Kari Lake has an answer for that, and it is to call the judge a fatso.

Judges in the District of New Jersey have appointed longtime prosecutor Robert Frazer as US Attorney. And so far, Attorney General Bondi hasn’t fired him.

Judge Roy Altman, a Trump appointee, seems disinclined to put an end to Trump’s trollsuits right out of the gate. He’s allowing the case against the BBC to proceed to discovery. And he dismissed the complaint against Capital One for tortious debanking, but allowed Trump 90 days to conduct discovery and refile.

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We’ve got an update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The government says it has to send him to Liberia (where he does not agree to go) instead of Costa Rica (where he does agree to go) because Secretary Marco Rubio spent a lot of time negotiating with Liberia to take Abrego, and it would be so embarrassing not to send him there.

And we’ll break down the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Olivier v. City of Brandon, a case involving a truly obnoxious street preacher that implicates your right to sue the government.

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The Trump administration is suing Harvard under Title VI, claiming that the school failed to protect Jewish students and must forfeit billions.

Widakuswara v. Lake I [DC Circuit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72521013/patsy-widakuswara-v-kari-lake/

Widakuswara v. Lake [Trial Court]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69846584/widakuswara-v-lake

Widakuswara v. Lake II [DC Circuit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72528662/widakuswara-v-lake/

District New Jersey Appointment Order

https://www.njd.uscourts.gov/sites/njd/files/STANDINGORDER2026-03.pdf

Trump Suit Against Capital One Dismissed But Can Be Refiled

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-suit-against-capital-one-200454780.html 

Trump v. BBC

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

Trump v. Capital One

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69853458/the-donald-j-trump-revocable-trust-v-capital-one-na

US v. Harvard

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72520538/unites-states-of-america-v-harvard-university-fellows-and-president/

Abrego Garcia v. Noem (habeas petition) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191591/abrego-garcia-v-noem/?order_by=desc

Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678 (2001)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16478079160883986502

Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist., 597 U.S. _____ (2022)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-418_i425.pdf

Olivier v. City of Brandon [US Supreme Court]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-993_10n2.pdf

Olivier v. City of Brandon (Appendix containing ordinance) [US Supreme Court]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-993/352124/20250314105732247_Olivier%20Pet.%20App.pdf

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We’ve got two deep dives for you today, each with a lot of laughs (and almost no Donald Trump)!

First, we break down the lawsuit brought by seven police officers against rapper Afroman for hurting their feelings, which ended in a total victory for the defense. It’s still legal to make fun of cops in America! We dissect the claims, discuss what it means to sue for false light invasion of privacy and unreasonable publicity. And then we break down the audio of closing arguments and how each side went about persuading an all-white jury in deep red rural Ohio.

Then, we discuss the ongoing shenanigans in the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where the Trump administration has installed a “triumvirate” of lawyers to run the office rather than just submit a nominee to the Senate. Things came to a head when the government botched a prosecution for child sexual abuse materials and tried to plow ahead anyway. Judge Zahid Quraishi summoned the DOJ lawyer responsible to appear in court and… it did not go well.

And for subscribers, we have a bonus that dives even deeper into the mess the Trump administration has gotten into in New Jersey because it refuses to back down and just do the normal thing.

Cooley v. Foreman [Afroman lawsuit]

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23721423-afroman-lawsuit/

United States v. Villafane (D.N.J. settlement) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/profile/docket-alerts/

“Lemon Pound Cake” [via OGAfroman YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo

“Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera?” [via OGAfroman YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISe3IVBBbyU&list=OLAK5uy_noWRXtUiSWHo7cMRoI34uqhSRSDpIFtqY&index=3

“Licc’em Low Lisa” [via OGAfroman YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wWQxSV8CK8

“Randy Walters is a Son of a Bitch” [via OGAfroman YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AiuqQpB1U

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