Law and Chaos

Abortion is on the ballot in Missouri, Florida, and Arizona, and Republicans are working hard to stop women from controlling the ballot box, and their own bodies. Meanwhile at the Supreme Court, the conservative justices are trying to shave points for Trump in Arizona. And subscribers will hear about shenanigans at the Arkansas Supreme Court to disappear an abortion referendum.

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MO Constitutional Amendment

https://moconstitutionalfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Missourians-for-Constitutional-Freedom-Amendment.pdf

MO Abortion Amendment Litigation Docket

https://www.courts.mo.gov/cnet/cases/newHeader.do?inputVO.caseNumber=24AC-CC06970&inputVO.courtId=SMPDB0004_CT19&inputVO.isTicket=false#docket

AZ Abortion Amendment

https://apps.arizona.vote/electioninfo/assets/47/0/BallotMeasures/I-05-2024%20Arizona%20for%20Abortion%20Access.pdf

AZ Supreme Court Abortion Ruling

https://www.azcourts.gov/Portals/0/OpinionFiles/Supreme/2024/ASC-CV240180%20-%208-20-2024%20-%20FILED%20-%20DECISION%20ORDER.pdf

ARS 16-121.01

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00121-01.htm

ARS 16-166

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00166.htm

Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council (2013)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8524729836774698956

Application for stay

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A164/322042/20240808153155295_Emerg.%20App.%20for%20Stay.pdf

Appendix & decisions below

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A164/322042/20240808153230794_Application%20Appendix.pdf

ARS 16-127 (federal only)

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/16/00127.htm

SCOTUS Order

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/082224zr_n75p.pdf

AR Supreme Court

https://opinions.arcourts.gov/ark/supremecourt/en/522904/1/document.do

Arkansas Abortion Amendment

https://arkansasadvocate.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Abortion-Amendment-of-2024.pdf

Arkansas Code 7-9-111

https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/title-7/chapter-9/subchapter-1/section-7-9-111/

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Former congressman George Santos — an heir to the Romanoff dynasty who discovered molybdenum — pleads guilty in New York. Disney tries to escape a wrongful death suit at its Florida Park because of an arbitration clause in its Disney+ fine print. And Trump claims an endorsement from AI Taylor Swift. What could possibly go wrong?

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Piccolo Complaint

https://www.scribd.com/document/708687171/Raglan-Road-Lawsuit

Disney MTC arbitration

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25041321/disney-arbitration-tangsuan.pdf

Plaintiffs' opposition

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25041320/disney-piccolo-response-tangsuan.pdf

Raglan Road website

https://www.raglanroad.com/new-page

Disney/Raglan Road website

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/disney-springs/raglan-road-irish-pub-and-restaurant/menus/dinner

Disney Terms of Use (2019)

https://disneytermsofuse.com/english/

My Disney Experience Terms and Conditions (2023)

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/park-experience-terms-conditions/

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A New York judge just kicked Robert Kennedy Jr. off the ballot for lying about his residency — a lie he told everywhere else, as well. Could this be the end of his spoiler candidacy? And for subscribers, an exploration of Gov. Ron DeSantis's weird war on woke meat.

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28 U.S.C. § 455

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/455

Where RFK Jr. and Independent Candidates Are On The Ballot, New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/presidential-candidates-third-party-independent.html

RFK Jr. Notice of Appeal

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=5jx/Kxz1l0wf6TA3ZHfXQg==

RFK Jr. Nominating Petition NY

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=jzZhJ0AUNv6uP5etayfLDQ==

RFK Jr. FEC Statement of Candidacy

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=2ofcShRVs71csui/f9Yq6g==

Petition seeking to invalidate RFK's Nominating Petition

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=Yj3pUo1J7/4wfQK3LGOnTw==

Court's decision invalidating RFK's Nominating Petition

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=vdZRqqGAbNUChn_PLUS_iL0Ev_PLUS_A==

Upside Foods Inc v. Simpson [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69038793/upside-foods-inc-v-simpson/

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Twitter filed an antitrust suit against a tiny non-profit trade group and a bunch of big companies for "illegally" boycotting his Nazi bar. To protect free speech! And for subscribers: Did Kamala copy Trump's plan to cut taxes on tipped compensation?

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RELEASE: Sen. Ted Cruz's No Tax on Tips Act Does Little for Low- and Moderate-Wage Workers But Opens Door to Tax Abuse by Wealthy

https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release-sen-ted-cruzs-no-tax-on-tips-act-does-little-for-low-and-moderate-wage-workers-but-opens-door-to-tax-abuse-by-wealthy/

It's Now Impossible to Search Old Trump Tweets on X

https://www.mediaite.com/online/its-now-impossible-to-search-old-trump-tweets-on-x/

Duke Really Did Get All The Foul Calls, Washington Post, April 7, 2015

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2015/04/07/duke-really-did-get-all-the-foul-calls-in-the-2015-ncaa-tournament/

House Judiciary Committee Interim Report on GARM

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-07-10%20GARMs%20Harm%20-%20How%20the%20Worlds%20Biggest%20Brands%20Seek%20to%20Control%20Online%20Speech.pdf

House Judiciary Documents on GARM

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/GARMReportFinalAppendix.pdf

GARM Brand Safety Floor

https://wfanet.org/l/library/download/urn:uuid:7d484745-41cd-4cce-a1b9-a1b4e30928ea

WFA 2023 Annual Report

https://wfanet.org/l/library/download/urn:uuid:0580b3a0-e365-4d61-b5cd-6d9d2e2557f2/2023+wfa+annual+report.pdf?redirected=1723422670

GDI Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in the United States

https://www.disinformationindex.org/country-studies/2022-12-16-disinformation-risk-assessment-the-online-news-market-in-the-united-states/

X v. WFA complaint

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003.1.0_2.pdf

FTC on Group Boycotts

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/dealings-competitors/group-boycotts

15 U.S.C. § 1

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1

FTC v. Superior Ct. Trial Lawyers Ass'n, 493 U.S. 411 (1990)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7145214033986459725

NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., 458 U.S. 886

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=7271075303659098319

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accomplished more in one legislative term than most politicians do in a lifetime. Can he do the same for the country? We take a deep dive into some of the laws he championed in Minnesota. Is this … optimism???

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Louisiana Will Get The Ten Commandments Into Schools If They Have To Break 'Em All To Do It

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/louisiana-will-get-the-ten-commandments

Idaho Stat. 18-623

https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title18/t18ch6/sect18-623/

Idaho Stat. 18-8807

https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title18/t18ch88/sect18-8807/

Minnesota Reproductive Freedom Defense Act

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF366&session_year=2023&session_number=0&version=latest

Minnesota HF5 (School Meals)

https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF0005&session=ls93&version=latest&session_number=0&session_year=2023

The 'Swift Boating' of Tim Walz has begun. What is the truth?

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/swift-boat-walz/

Minnesota Felon Voting Rights Opinion

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25035780-minnesota-felon-voting-opinion

Minnesota Felon Voting Rights Complaint

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25035775-minnesota-felon-voting-rights-complaint

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The Trump election interference case is finally back from getting beat to hell by the Supreme Court. What's left after the disastrous immunity decision? And will the Supreme Court accept Mark Meadows' invitation to do even more damage to the Republic in a naked bid to protect Trump's cronies?

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Trump v. US Immunity Decisions

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

US v. Trump District Court Docket via Court Listener

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/

Fischer v. US (2024)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-5572_l6hn.pdf

18 USC § 1512

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1512

Meadows cert petition

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-97/321049/20240729152205890_2024-07-26%20Meadows%20Cert%20Petition%20FINAL.pdf

Ex parte Garland (1866)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2981583583221536357

28 USC § 1442

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1442

28 USC § 1455

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1455

Teaching History on Aaron Burr

https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/24404

Aaron Burr murder indictment in New Jersey

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0001-0281

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The Utah Supreme Court will not be LARPing as amateur historians, no matter what nonsense Justices Thomas and Alito get up to. The state's highest court upholds an injunction blocking an abortion ban. And we'll check in on Rudy Giuliani's ignominious exit from bankruptcy, along with Project 2025's implosion. Have rumors of the manifesto's demise been greatly exaggerated?

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Gina Carano's Trollsuit Against Disney Lives To Fight Another Day

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/gina-caranos-trollsuit-against-disney

Roake v. Brumley - LA Ten Commandments docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68879768/roake-v-brumley/

Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. Utah

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25023061/pp-utah.pdf

Giuliani Bankruptcy Docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68108037/rudolph-w-giuliani/

NY Denial of Trump Gag Order Appeal

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25023087-ny-appeals-ruling-on-trump-gag-order

The Man Behind Project 2025's Most Radical Plans

https://www.propublica.org/article/project-2025-trump-campaign-heritage-foundation-paul-dans

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President Biden is out with an op ed on how to fix our broken Supreme Court. We discuss the plan and the possibilities of implementing it. Could we shunt some of these justices off to the minor leagues and save the country? And Missouri Attorney General Andy Bailey wants to keep a man in jail despite the fact that he is actually innocent. Wouldn't want to look like he's soft on crime!

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NY AG brief in Missouri v. New York

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O159/319733/20240724191733354_22O159_NY%20Brief%20in%20Opposition.pdf

Constitution Article III

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-iii

Federal judges

https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges

Presidential Commission on SCOTUS

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SCOTUS-Report-Final-12.8.21-1.pdf

Biden op-ed on SCOTUS reform

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/29/joe-biden-reform-supreme-court-presidential-immunity-plan-announcement/

Booth v. US

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2290285144301064699

28 U.S.C. § 351

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/351

28 U.S.C. § 371

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/371

Art I, Section 6, Clause 1

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-6/clause-1/privilege-from-arrest

Dominion v. Byrne docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60120428/us-dominion-inc-v-byrne/

Dominion v. Byrne surreply

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.234316/gov.uscourts.dcd.234316.117.0.pdf

Dominion v. Byrne minute order

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60120428/us-dominion-inc-v-byrne/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#minute-entry-397727987

Delaware Supreme Court Lin Wood decision

https://cases.justia.com/delaware/supreme-court/2022-69-2021.pdf?ts=1642602664

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Project 2025 is the right's manifesto on how to break the government and turn America into a Christian nationalist state. It's also deeply weird — just like the guys who wrote it. We'll break down 20 of the craziest policy proposals, and then take a deep dive into the plan to replace the civil service with an army of MAGA loyalists.

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GOP Whines That It's No Fair That Kamala Gets Joe's Money

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/gop-whines-that-its-no-fair-kamala

Project 2025

https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, 5 U.S.C. Chapter 23

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/part-III/subpart-A/chapter-23

Trump Executive Order 13957

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-10-26/pdf/2020-23780.pdf

Biden EO 14003 (repealing Trump EO 13957)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-01-27/pdf/2021-01924.pdf

5 CFR Parts 210, 212, 213, 302, 432, 451, and 752

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-06815.pdf

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Biden is out, Kamala is all but in, and the GOP is freaking out. We'll break down potential Republican legal challenges to a Harris candidacy. Subscribers will get an extended curbstomping of Jonathan Turley's galaxy brain plan to 25th Amendment Biden out of the last six months of his term.

Links:

Louisiana notice of compliance

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lamd.64943/gov.uscourts.lamd.64943.32.0.pdf

DNC 2024 Call For the DNC

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2024-Call-for-Convention.pdf

DNC 2024 Delegate Selection Rules

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2024-Delegate-Selection-Rules.pdf

DNC Charter and bylaws

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DNC-Charter-Bylaws-03.12.2022.pdf

25th Amendment

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxv

Constitution, Art. II, Section 1, Cl. 6 ("Succession Clause")

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C6-1/ALDE_00013693/

3 USC § 19

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/19

52 USC § 30102

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30102

11 CFR § 103.4

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/103.4

Revised FEC Form 1 "Harris for President"

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00703975/1805326//

Heritage Foundation June 21 memo

https://x.com/OversightPR/status/1805239354505257196

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