Law and Chaos

DOCKET ALERTS:

Doofus of the Day: Alexis Wilkins, girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel. She's filed a bumptious defamation suit against MSNOW for reporting that she asked her security detail to drive her drunk pals home. Like her boyfriend, Wilkins is represented by MAGA lawyer Jesse Binnall. Maybe they got a sweetheart package deal?

The New York Times reports that the Trump administration has lost 10,000 lawyers, 2,500 at the Justice Department alone. No one wants to put the DOJ on their resume, or sign up to work environmental cases and then find themselves seconded to handle immigration. This has been a boon for state law enforcement agencies, which have their pick of newbie prosecutors.

And the government filed a superseding indictment of former NBA point guard Terry Rozier, who is accused of fixing games for online bets.

MAIN SHOW:

Trump's slush fund is dead … maybe. Was it the judge in Florida potentially reopening his fake lawsuit against the IRS to explore the possibility of Rule 11 sanctions against the lawyers? Was it the judge in Virginia imposing a temporary restraining order on dispensing money? Or was it the refusal of congressional Republicans to eat the sh*t sandwich on command?

Both Kalshi and the Trump administration have sued Minnesota seeking to invalidate its new ban on prediction markets in the state. Is Kalshi a gambling site or some kind of securities exchange?

And Judge Chris Cooper ruled that Trump cannot just slap his name on the Kennedy Center and shut it down on command. Fiduciary duty applies, even if you're a MAGA board member. Naturally, the president is taking the ruling in stride.

Wilkins v. MSNOW [Alexis Wilkins defamation]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73418392/wilkins-v-versant-media-group-inc/

Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/us/politics/trump-administration-exodus-of-lawyers.html

Trump v. IRS

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

Floyd v. DOJ [Slush fund suit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73383692/floyd-v-department-of-justice/

Minnesota prediction markets ban

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.234000/gov.uscourts.mnd.234000.1.1.pdf

KalshiEX, LLC v. Ellison (Kalshi sues over ban on prediction markets) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73402180/kalshiex-llc-v-ellison/

US v. Minnesota (Trump admin sues over ban on prediction markets) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73361329/united-states-of-america-the-v-state-of-minnesota/

Beatty v. Trump [Kennedy Center]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72069932/beatty-v-trump/

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DOCKET ALERTS:

Joe Dye begins a series on the second phase of the redistricting wars at his Substack. 

Multiple states are threatening to tax payouts from Trump’s slush fund at 100 percent. 

The Trump Administration is suing Massachusetts for failing to give “confidential,” hard to trace license plates to ICE and CBP.

A panel of federal judges in Alabama once again rejected the state’s congressional map as an illegal racial gerrymander. The state has appealed to SCOTUS.

Don Lemon moved to unseal the grand jury transcript in the Cities Church protest prosecution. He cited the recently unsealed magistrate’s docket, showing the government’s wild overreach — not to mention incompetence — in its warrant applications, along with the many cases where courts have said the DOJ is currently lawless and entitled to no presumption of regularity.

The New York Times had a wild story this week about the Justice Department’s total loss of credibility with grand juries, including in Wyoming, where the US Attorney’s total violation of grand jury rules led to the dismissal of nine indictments.

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The US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois is reportedly investigating E. Jean Carroll for perjury. In a deposition in 2022, Carroll misspoke and said that her litigation was not being funded by anyone else. She later corrected the record to say that some of her fees were being paid by a nonprofit associated with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. The government is trying to do to that nonprofit what it’s done to the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging that it somehow conspired to hide its activities by getting Carroll to lie under oath.

Meanwhile, the SPLC is moving to dismiss its case based on vindictive prosecution. Luckily it has eleventy-seven clips of Trump officials declaring that they’re on a revenge mission to take out the civil rights organization.

In non-political news, a drag queen named Pattie Gonia is in a trademark dispute with the brand Patagonia. 

SUBSCRIBER BONUS:

Trump is making NDAs great again.

How Democrats Can Take Back the Redistricting Wars Pt. 1

https://josephdye.substack.com/p/how-democrats-can-take-back-the-redistricting

US v. Massachusetts [Confidential License Plates]

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

Milligan v. Allen

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61494291/milligan-v-allen

US v. Levy-Armstrong [Cities Church/Don Lemon]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72212459/united-states-v-levy-armstrong/

In re Search Warrant [Cities Church/Don Lemon magistrate docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72323660/in-re-search-warrant/

As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-justice-department-grand-juries.html

DOJ probes Democratic-allied nonprofit that helped fund E. Jean Carroll’s legal bills

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/28/doj-probes-reid-hoffmans-nonprofit-funding-e-jean-carrolls-legal-bills/

US v. Southern Poverty Law Center [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73223865/united-states-v-southern-poverty-law-center-inc/

Patagonia, Inc. v. Entrepreneur Enterprises, Inc. (“Patty Gonia”) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72169060/patagonia-inc-v-entrepreneur-enterprises-inc/

Pattie Gonia Instagram responding to lawsuit

https://www.instagram.com/p/DY2L725tVow/

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DOCKET ALERTS:

Judges in Maine and Wisconsin hand DOJ two more losses as they sue to get access to state voter rolls to check for non-existent election fraud.

Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward is back with another batsh*t ballroom filing.

DOOFUS OF THE DAY:

Attorney D. Hayden Fisher, who filed a bumptious SLAPP suit against locals in Norfolk who dared to disparage a MAGA-coded brewery for perceived anti-LGBTQ+ bias.

MAIN SHOW:

We’ll revisit the implosion of the Broadview 6 prosecution. Turns out, the government’s main goal all along was to hide the corruption and misconduct at the heart of this case.

And Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free! Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismissed his criminal case on the basis of vindictive prosecution.

US v. Bellows [Maine Voter Rolls]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71367730/united-states-v-bellows/

US v. Wisconsin Elections Commission [Wisconsin Voter Rolls]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72055967/united-states-v-wisconsin-elections-commission

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

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

Armed Forces Brewing Co. v. Coplon [Doofus SLAPP suit]

https://armedforcesbrewingco.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Complaint-26-5-18-Final.pdf

Broadview 6 May 21 Hearing

https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7674c31b8f5bb0ecae58921/25cr693-usa-v-rabbitt-052126.pdf

US v. Rabbit [Broadview 6]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71795281/parties/united-states-v-rabbitt/

United States v. Abrego (TN criminal docket) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475970/united-states-v-abrego-garcia/?order_by=desc

Abrego Garcia v. Noem (MD Civil litigation) [docket via CourtListener]

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

United States v. Carey (DC flag burning) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71223464/united-states-v-carey/

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Congressional Republicans abstain courteously from blessing Trump’s ICE/CBP allocation after Trump torpedoes several sitting GOP politicians and demands cash for the ballroom and the $1.8 billion J6 slush fund. They’re heading home until June, TYVM.

DOJ indicts former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, age 94, for shooting down two flights of dissident exiles dropping leaflets back in 1996. Is this a prelude to Bay of Pigs 2?

Officials in Florida and Tennessee discover that the First Amendment applies to everyone, even people who criticize Charlie Kirk. Good thing it’s taxpayers picking up the tab for this little life lesson!

And Acting AG Todd Blanche adds a codicil to the slush fund settlement granting amnesty to Trump and his kids for past tax crimes — but not future ones! (Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.)

DOOFUS OF THE DAY: Todd Blanche.

MAIN SHOW:

Judge Leo Sorokin in Massachusetts sanctions ICE for lying to the court about the time an immigrant detainee left the jurisdiction. This one will make you mad!

And the indictment against the “Broadview 6” for protesting outside an ICE detention center implodes after the grand jury transcripts reveal a dumpsterfire of impropriety and potentially sanctionable misconduct by the prosecution. Read this hearing transcript — but not after taking a giant swig of milk!

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Meet the new tariffs! Same as the old tariffs! (Illegal.) And NO the administration can’t keep collecting them right now because they’re too busy trying to figure out how to refund the last batch of illegal tariffs to figure it out.

US v. Perez-Perez [Raul Castro indictment]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/31009891/united-states-v-perez-perez/

Civil Rights Lawyers Secure $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired Over Charlie Kirk Social Media Post

https://www.aclufl.org/press-releases/civil-rights-lawyers-secure-485000-settlement-for-fwc-biologist-fired-over-charlie-kirk-social-media-post/

He Was Jailed Over a Charlie Kirk Post. The Sheriff Now Owes Him $835,000.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-facebook-settlement.html

Slush Fund Codicil

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl

Guevara Peruano v. Wesling [ICE Sanctions]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72181340/guevara-peruano-v-wesling/

Oregon v. Trump [Tarriffs]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72368522/the-state-of-oregon-v-trump/

Broadview 6 May 21 Hearing

https://cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7674c31b8f5bb0ecae58921/25cr693-usa-v-rabbitt-052126.pdf

US v. Rabbit [Broadview 6]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71795281/parties/united-states-v-rabbitt/

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The Supreme Court stayed a lower court decision out of Texas banning doctors from dispensing the abortion drug mifepristone.

The Colorado Supreme Court barred Children’s Hospital from cutting gender-affirming care, calling it a denial of treatment on the basis of sex and gender identity.

The DOJ is suing the DC Bar to stop it disciplining upstanding government lawyers like Ed Martin and Jeff Clark. The case has been assigned to Judge Richard Leon!!!

Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.

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The DOJ’s effort to harass trans kids and their medical providers is escalating into a judicial crisis as Judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas purports to bar Rhode Island Hospital from seeking redress in any other court or from “aiding and abetting” anyone else in seeking redress. Meanwhile in Rhode Island, Judge Mary McElroy says the Hospital does not have to comply.

Trump purports to “settle” his lawsuit against the IRS over the 2020 disclosure of his tax returns by establishing a $1.8 billion slush fund for the “victims of weaponization” of the DOJ under Biden. Is that legal? (No.)

Danco Labs v. Louisiana [US Supreme Court - mifepristone]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a1207_21p3.pdf

Boe v. Children’s Hospital Colorado [Colorado Supreme Court - gender affirming care]

https://www.coloradojudicial.gov/system/files/opinions-2026-05/26SA66.pdf

US v. Fox [DOJ sues DC Bar]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73338949/united-states-v-fox/?order_by=desc

In Re: Administrative Subpoena 25-1431-032 [Texas action]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73276712/in-re-administrative-subpoena-25-1431-032/

In Re: Motion to Quash Administrative Subpoena to Rhode Island Hospital [Rhode Island action]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73290254/in-re-motion-to-quash-administrative-subpoena-to-rhode-island-hospital/

Trump v. IRS [docket via CourtListener]

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

DOJ Notice of Settlement - administration of “Anti-Weaponization Fund”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441086/dl

OLC Memorandum, “Availability of Judgement Fund in Cases Not Involving a Money Judgment Claim”

https://www.justice.gov/file/151086/dl?inline

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As Trump rants at “Neil and Amy” for betraying him in the IEEPA tariffs case, the next tariff battle is already taking shape.

Reuters legal reporters analyzed court stats in Minnesota and proved that federal prosecutions cratered during the immigration surge. So much for “cleaning up” crime.

Doofus of the Day: Pete Hegseth, who is vowing to put Senator Mark Kelly in jail … again.

Judge Melissa Dubose referred the head of the Civil Division at the US Attorney’s Office for Rhode Island for possible sanctions due to lack of candor. Chief Judge John McConnell appointed a special counsel to review.

Justice Alito extended the stay in the mifepristone case until Thursday.

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The Virginia Supreme Court struck down the Democratic gerrymander on a technicality. Now the state’s legislators have filed a longshot emergency application for stay at the Supreme Court.

And FCC Chair Brendan Carr is lying about the equal time rule as an excuse to go after the ladies at The View. 

Oregon v. Trump [Tariffs]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72368522/the-state-of-oregon-v-trump

Trump vowed to fight crime in Minneapolis. Prosecutions plunged

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-trumps-minneapolis-immigration-blitz-hobbled-federal-crime-fighting-2026-05-07/

Gomez v. Nessinger [Rhode Island Attorney Sanctions]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73235898/gomez-v-nessinger/

Mifepristone SCOTUS Docket

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25a1208.html

Scott v. McDougle (Virginia Supreme Court)

https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf

Scott v. McDougle [US Supreme Court petition for stay]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25A1240/408563/20260511151941216_25A%20Application%20for%20Stay.pdf

FCC Petition by KTRK-TV (The View)

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10507899614175/1

FCC Chair Brandon Carr letter (DA 26-68)

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-68A1.pdf

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Kash Patel is not as think as you drunk he is … again. And if you tell someone about it, he’ll strap you to a polygraph.

The DC Circuit seems likely to side with Senator Mark Kelly in his lawsuit against Pete Hegseth for trying to steal his pension.

The DOJ subpoenaed a hospital in Rhode Island for medical records of kids receiving gender affirming care. While the parties were negotiating, the DOJ filed a petition to enforce in Texas, which their hand-picked Judge Reed O’Connor instantly granted. Now the hospital has appealed to the Fifth Circuit (ughhh) and the Rhode Island Child Advocate has filed a motion to quash in the District of Rhode Island.

Our Doofus of the Day is Chief Justice John Roberts. It won’t always be someone on the Supreme Court, but when you stand up in front of hundreds of lawyers to whine about how unfair it is that people think your obviously political Supreme Court is political, how could we resist?

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The 11th Circuit has joined two other circuit courts of appeal in ruling that the Trump administration cannot use the mandatory detention provisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Act to hold any immigrant, anywhere in the US, for any length of time and with no opportunity for a bond hearing.

The DOJ is so desperate to hire lawyers that they’re offering signing bonuses and tipping current employees with “retention incentive allowances” to keep them from fleeing. Turns out, competent lawyers don’t like harassing trans kids for sport and indicting Democratic politicians on spurious grounds.

Judge Coleen McMahon ruled that DOGE illegally dismantled the National Endowment for the Humanities when the bros fed the grantee database into ChatGPT with an instruction to find grants were “DEI.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center says the government’s public lies about the case — lookin’ at you, Todd Blanche — are so egregious that the court should hand over the grand jury transcript.

Judges in Rhode Island and Texas are dueling over the DOJ’s subpoena for the medical record for transgender minors.

READING LIST:

How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet

Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/kash-patel-fbi-bourbon/687066/

Kash Patel ordered polygraphs of more than two dozen members of his team, sources tell MS NOW

https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-ordered-polygraphs-of-more-than-two-dozen-members-of-his-team-sources-tell-ms-now

DOJ Offers Lawyers $25,000 Signing Bonuses as Hiring Lags

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-offers-lawyers-25-000-signing-bonuses-as-recruitment-lags

US. SPLC

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73223865/united-states-v-southern-poverty-law-center-inc

In Re: Administrative Subpoena 25-1431-032 [Texas action]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73276712/in-re-administrative-subpoena-25-1431-032/

In Re: Motion to Quash Administrative Subpoena to Rhode Island Hospital [Rhode Island action]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73290254/in-re-motion-to-quash-administrative-subpoena-to-rhode-island-hospital/

“Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’” [NBC News]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958

Hernandez Alvarez v. Warden (11th Cir. immigration) [docket via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2026/05/06/ismael_perez_v._assistant_field_office_director_krome_north_service.pdf

American Council of Learned Societies v. McDonald

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70035052/american-council-of-learned-societies-v-mcdonald/

How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/linda-mcmahon-profile

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DOCKET ALERTS: 

Sadly, recurring L&C segment “Justin Baldoni Teaches CivPro” is canceled. He and Blake Lively settled their civil suit today. Now we’ll just have to rely on Trump and his minions to show us how law does not work.

The DOJ subpoenaed a Rhode Island hospital for patient records on gender affirming care. When the hospital failed to respond (oh no!), the DOJ moved to enforce the subpoena … in Texas, before a hand-picked conservative jurist. Judge Reed O’Connor granted the motion, and now the hospital is seeking to block the demand in a Rhode Island federal court.

Trump says the War Powers Resolution doesn’t count because of the ceasefire. He’s full of s***.

Law and Chaos’s first inaugural Doofus of the Day is Justice Neil Gorsuch, who went on Fox News to hawk his book and tell us all about the Christian Founding Fathers.

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On Friday the Fifth Circuit purported to ban the abortion drug mifepristone nationwide based on a letter from HHS Secretary Robert “Bear Carcass” Kennedy implying that the dispensing protocol had been arbitrarily decided. On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed that order temporarily. 

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and Alina Habba — what even is her job these days??? — both appeared on TV and undermined the Comey seashells case. 

Democratic candidate Lindsay Garcia and a local voter have sued Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry over his executive order that suspends that state’s primary elections – but only for the US House of Representatives races.

And for subscribers: US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro is ready to pick up the slack for Justin Baldoni. Today she’ll teach us how Munsingwear vacatur doesn’t work. 

In Re: Administrative Subpoena 25-1431-032 [Texas action]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73276712/in-re-administrative-subpoena-25-1431-032/

In Re: Motion to Quash Administrative Subpoena to Rhode Island Hospital [Rhode Island action]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73290254/in-re-motion-to-quash-administrative-subpoena-to-rhode-island-hospital/

US v. Russotto

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70649950/united-states-v-russotto/

Collins v. Landry (Louisiana elections lawsuit) [Docket via CourtListener]

https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/2026-Executive-Orders/JML-Exective-Order-26-038.pdf

Executive Order 26-038 (order suspending elections)

https://gov.louisiana.gov/assets/2026-Executive-Orders/JML-Exective-Order-26-038.pdf

Louisiana v. FDA (5th Cir) [docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73207799/state-of-louisiana-v-fda/

Louisiana v. FDA (W.D. La. trial court) [docket via CourtListener]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952/

Sec. Kennedy Letter re: Mifepristone

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952/gov.uscourts.lawd.213952.1.110.pdf

Supreme Court stay order

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/050426zr_l5gm.pdf

In re grand jury subpoenas [Federal Reserve]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72490330/in-re-grand-jury-subpoenas/

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Elon Musk discovers that filing a lawsuit against Sam Altman and sh*tposting about it on social media is a lot more fun than testifying

Alex Jones is back on his BS. He managed to delay a proposed deal to license InfoWars assets to the satirical news outlet The Onion. Again.

The judge presiding over Trump’s shakedown case against the IRS for the wrongful disclosure of his tax returns in 2020 has appointed a whole squad of lawyers to serve as amici. They’ll brief the issue of whether the court has jurisdiction to preside over a case where the president appears to be suing himself.

L&C’s Doofus of the Day is Pete Hegseth.

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James Comey has been indicted again. This time his “crime” is posting a picture of seashells arranged to say “8647.” It is exceptionally stupid, but we will break it down in exceptional detail.

As a companion to our written post, we unpack Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Subscribers will get a deep dive into what the new districts might look like with Joe Dye.

Finally, we’ll cringe our way through the DOJ’s latest motion in the ballroom case — it’s the most inappropriate, unprofessional thing we’ve ever seen, including from pro se litigants.

Louisiana v. Callais [Supreme Court opinion]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-109_21o3.pdf

The Supreme Court Just Effectively Repealed The Voting Rights Act 

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-supreme-court-just-effectively

US v. Comey

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73256624/united-states-v-comey

Trump DOJ Pursuing Separate Comey Probe for Classified Leaks

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-doj-pursuing-separate-comey-probe-for-classified-leaks

Trump v. IRS

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

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

https://www.theverge.com/tech/917225/sam-altman-elon-musk-openai-lawsuit

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/

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Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Republicans are insisting that the lone gunman at the White House Correspondents Dinner means that Trump can — in fact, must! — build his illegal ballroom. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tweeted out a demand for the National Historic Trust to drop its lawsuit. The Trust told him to get bent.  

Trump’s shakedown of the IRS hit a snag as a federal judge in Florida said she may not have jurisdiction over a case where the plaintiff and the defendant are the same person — Donald Trump.

And EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is being so weird at Congress. Is he bad at law, or just lying?

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It’s a courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over the past and future of AI. Musk claims he was swindled out of seed money by claims that OpenAI would be operated as a non-profit, only to watch the company pivot to a trillion-dollar for-profit enterprise. The jury is empaneled, and the trial begins this week.  

The Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in Chatrie v. US. The case involves law enforcement's use of “geofencing” data to find criminal suspects based on their cell phone location data. Should the government have to get a warrant to collect that info? What should those warrants look like?

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