Law and Chaos
Liz Dye
- 1 hour 3 minutesEp 217 — Trump Admin Finds New Ways To Be Racist In Birthright Citizenship Case
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.
MAIN SHOW:
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]
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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31 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 53 secondsEp 216 — Zuck and Musk Get Pantsed In Court … Twice
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]
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)
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27 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 9 minutesEp 215 — DOJ, Why Are You Like This?
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.
MAIN SHOW:
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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24 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 18 minutesEp 214 — We Were Gonna Do A Show…And Then We Got High
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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20 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesEp 213 — As DOJ Implodes, Judiciary Shows Signs Of Life
The Supreme Court rebuffed the Trump Administration’s “emergency” request to revoke temporary protected status for half a million Haitian and Syrian nationals. It granted cert before judgment and set oral argument for April.
The DOJ dropped charges against Jay Carey, a veteran who burned a flag in Lafayette Park to protest Trump’s executive order purporting to ban flag-burning.
In Massachusetts, Judge Brian Murphy blocked HHS Secretary Kennedy’s attempt to rewrite the child and adult vaccine schedules.
And the Justice Department keeps lowering the bar in an effort to get lawyers willing to sign on to burn down their reputations in service of the Trump agenda.
MAIN SHOW:
We discuss US Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro’s crashout over the implosion of her retaliatory investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Judge Boasberg quashed the subpoenas, saying that there was no reason at all to think Powell committed a crime.
The Judicial Conference is making it slightly easier for criminal defendants to secure representation. They’re also going to war with the General Services Administration, the world’s worst landlord.
The Live Nation trial continues, without the government. Andrew’s got a deep dive into the Tunney Act and a similar antitrust case blown up by the Trump DOJ under pressure from well-connected lobbyists. These people made us agree with Laura Loomer — RUDE!
TPS Cert Before Judgment
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/031626zr1_5h25.pdf
US v. Carey [Flag burning]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71223464/united-states-v-carey
American Academy of Pediatrics v. Kennedy [Vaccines]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70722326/american-academy-of-pediatrics-v-kennedy/
Judiciary Says Courthouses Are in Crisis, Seeks Real Property Authority
US judiciary approves new public defender office focused on US Supreme Court advocacy
DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School
Law School Tells Students, ‘You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,’ For Summer Job
Jeanine Pirro Crashes Out
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/jeanine-pirro-crashes-out
In re Grand Jury Subpoenas [Jerome Powell]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72490330/in-re-grand-jury-subpoenas
The Rule of Law Versus the Rule of Lobbyists [Roger Alford]
https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rqWZHzWNbqZc/v0
Proposal to Give Judiciary Real Property Authority
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17 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesEp 212 — Trump Comes Up With Magical Insurance Plan To Make Tankers Cross Strait of Hormuz
A federal judge in Maryland issued a TRO blocking the construction of an ICE detention facility without first undertaking the legally required environmental impact assessment.
The Trump administration filed an “emergency” petition to the Supreme Court demanding that it be allowed to immediately deport 350,000 Haitians who have enjoyed Temporary Protected Status for decades. It insists an earlier shadow docket ruling allowing it to deport Venezuelan TPS holders is precedential. An amicus brief from 175 former judges points out that shadow docket orders are definitionally non-precedential.
The USDA is teaming up with Robert Kennedy and his team of freaks at Health and Human Services to Make America Healthy Again … by shaming poor people for their food choices. SNAP recipients sued in DC to block a “pilot” program to allow states to restrict food benefits to exclude sugary foods.
MAIN SHOW:
DOGE destroyed the National Endowment for the Humanities in three weeks last spring. We wrote about it on the blog, and discussed the ongoing litigation. Turns out, the DOGE dudes are pissed that the plaintiffs released video of them smirking their way through depositions.
On Monday, in the middle of trial, the Trump administration tried to blow up the antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster. This leaves the 40 states which joined the suit as co-plaintiffs in the lurch. Judge Arun Subramanian has ordered the parties to huddle up and see if they can’t negotiate a settlement. Will the case go forward next week without the lead plaintiff?
And Andrew has an extended exploration of Trump’s plan to use a little known federal agency called the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to get oil tankers to cross the Strait of Hormuz. The DFC has released a plan (or at least, concepts of a plan) to reinsure insurance companies that issue war riders. Which might help if insurance companies were refusing to issue policies to ships at sea – except that insurance companies are still underwriting as many marine policies as ever. It’s just that it costs more now, because of the war.
Plus for subscribers, we’ll break down the bar complaint against fan favorite Ed Martin.
Kash Patel Confirms UFC Fighters Will Train FBI Agents This Week, Calling It A “Historic Opportunity”
https://deadline.com/2026/03/kash-patel-ufc-fighters-train-fbi-agents-1236750897/
State of Maryland v. Noem [ICE Detention Center in Hagerstown]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72313096/state-of-maryland-v-noem
Lesly Miot v. Trump [Haitian TPS, Trial Docket]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70965949/lesly-miot-v-trump/
Trump v. Miot [SCOTUS Docket]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25a999.html
DOGE Bros Had More Fun Burning Down Government Than Testifying About It
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-had-more-fun-burning-down
Authors Guild v. National Endowment for the Humanities
Amicus Brief of 175 Former Judges re Precedent of Shadow Docket Rulings
Aragon v. Rollins [SNAP Benefits]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72419889/aragon-v-rollins/
DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/ticketmaster-suit-doj
US v. Live Nation
Trump’s ‘free flow of energy’ vow fails to restart shipping in strait of Hormuz [The Guardian]
DFC Reinsurance announcement [US International Development Finance Corporation]
Gulf war risk premiums topping double-digit millions of dollars per trip [Lloyd’s List]
No, P&I clubs have not ‘cancelled war risk cover’ [Lloyd’s List]
https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1156515/No-PI-clubs-have-not-cancelled-war-risk-cover
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13 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 3 minutesEp 211 — Go Woke, Go … KA-CHING!
DOCKET ALERTS:
War Powers Resolution fails in both Houses of Congress.
DHS is ramping up for an immigration surge in Maryland and has purchased an 825,000-square-foot warehouse in Hagerstown. The state is suing to block the facility on environmental grounds. In Baltimore, Judge Julie Rubin joins judges in New York and Los Angeles in holding that ICE is systematically violating the Fifth Amendment rights of immigrants in “temporary” detention by holding them for days on end without hygiene, medical care, or access to counsel.
Kalshi customers have filed a class action suit over the company’s refusal to pay out on bets — oops, we mean CONTRACT SWAPS — that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office as Supreme Leader of Iran before March 1.
Trump continues to defy the Constitution’s requirement that he get Senate approval for principal officers. We discussed it in our post on Judge Lamberth holding that Kari Lake was never legally serving as head of the US Agency for Global Media, and thus her directives are null and void. And Judge Matthew Brann has ruled once again that Attorney General Pam Bondi can’t evade senate confirmation for the US Attorney in New Jersey — no, not even if she spreads the appointment out among three lawyers, not just one.
And we’ll talk about the Trump administration’s humiliating U-turn as it tries to un-dismiss the appeal in the case of the executive orders targeting law firms, as well as Anthropic’s complaint against the government. Turns out, defying Trump can be good for business!
Subscriber Bonus: The Trump administration just dismissed the antitrust suit against Live Nation mid-trial for, uh, reasons.
ICE awards $113 million to build out Hagerstown detention center
Maryland v. Noem [ICE Warehouse]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72313096/state-of-maryland-v-noem/?order_by=desc
D.N.N. v. Liggins [ICE temporary holding facility in Baltimore]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70321567/dnn-v-liggins/
Risch v. Kalshi
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72371954/risch-v-kalshiex-llc/
Judge Rules That Kari Lake Is Still A Loser [Law and Chaos]
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rules-that-kari-lake-is-still
US v. Naviwala [US Attorney New Jersey]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68269162/united-states-v-naviwala
Susman Godfrey v. Executive Office of the President (DC Cir. Appeal) [docket via CourtListener]
Anthropic v. US Dep’t of War, [docket via CourtListener]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/
Business Insider, “Claude Hits Number One In The App Store”
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-hits-number-one-app-store-openai-chatgpt-2026-2
US v. LiveNation Entertainment (Ticketmaster antitrust lawsuit) [docket via CourtListener]
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10 March 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 12 minutesEp 210 — TX/AR/NC Primary Redux (Ft. Joe Dye)
Law and Chaos wishes a big mazal tov to Kristi Noem on her new, very real job as assistant principal of the Yeehaw American Hegemony Club. And to Lindsey Halligan on catching a Florida Bar investigation.
We’ll discuss our recent post on Pam Bondi’s very timely announcement that she intends to take over state bar complaints against DOJ employees. It comes at a moment when district court judges are telegraphing very clearly that they are going to start holding DHS and DOJ in criminal contempt for rampant disregard of court orders. Specifically, Judge Michael Farbiarz of the District of New Jersey says he’ll require sworn affidavits from officials at the US Attorneys Office and ICE for every habeas release case that comes before him. This will likely serve as a model for other judges whose dockets are buckling under the weight of habeas cases from all the immigrants ICE is illegally detaining.
Elections expert Joe Dye is back to discuss Tuesday’s primary elections in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.
And for subscribers, we’ll discuss the shadow docket order in which the six conservative justices leapt in to save New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis's seat.
Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/politics/lindsey-halligan-investigation-florida-bar.html
Bondi Says She's The Bar Now
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/bondi-says-shes-the-bar-now
Judge Farbiarz Order re Contempt
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.590517/gov.uscourts.njd.590517.30.0.pdf
Malliotakis v. Williams [2026 Supreme Court New York redistricting decision]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a914_1p24.pdf
Abbott v. LULAC [2025 Supreme Court stay of Texas map]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a608_7khn.pdf
Rucho v. Common Cause [2019 Supreme Court gerrymandering opinion]
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6090361490276671133
Steve Vladek, Bonus 214: Emergency Relief from State Courts [One First]
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-214-emergency-relief-from-state
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6 March 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 9 minutesEp 209 — Gorsuch, Gummies, and Government Lies About Iran
DOCKET ALERTS:
The Trump administration is tapping out on the lawsuits defending executive orders attacking law firms. Too bad, so sad for the Vichy law firms that pledged a billion dollars in “conservative pro bono” work.
Justice Gorsuch says we can’t take guns away from drug users because the Founders were drunk all the time.
The Federal Circuit declines a request by the Trump administration to delay tariff refunds.
Kansas’s revocation of trans citizens’ drivers licenses draws its first court challenge.
And Virginia’s redistricting referendum can go ahead.
MAIN SHOW:
We discuss the history of the president’s power to commence hostilities and explain why Trump and his goons are so deeply invested in claiming that the war in Iran — which isn’t a war at all! — was defensive, not offensive. Plus Andrew’s got a deep dive into the War Powers Resolution and how it might bring about an end to this nightmare.
We’ve got clips from 60 Minutes’s very good story on the danger federal judges face when they go against the Trump administration.
Judges in the Western District of West Virginia join the list of jurisdictions telling DHS/DOJ that contempt charges are coming if they keep relying on crackpot legal theories to kidnap residents.
Judge John Tunheim issues class relief to refugees in Minnesota, barring DHS from interning them for recertification.
And for subscribers: a discussion of the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution.
Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-administration-to-drop-defense-of-law-firm-sanctions-cb839c39
US v. Hemani Oral Argument
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2025/24-1234
V.O.S. Selections [Tariff mandate]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105/gov.uscourts.cafc.23105.173.0_2.pdf
Doe v. Kansas [Trans drivers’ licenses]
https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2026/02/Complaint-1.pdf
Virginia redistricting election can move forward, court rules
Federal judges who've ruled against Trump administration denounce threats against themselves, their families
Judges in a Trump stronghold condemn ICE tactics
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/01/west-virginia-immigration-rulings-00804575
Dominguez Izaguirre v. Mason [West Virginia Habeas]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wvsd.243036/gov.uscourts.wvsd.243036.18.0.pdf
War Powers Resolution, 50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-33
“Trump Can’t Declare War On Iran (or Anyone)” [lawandchaospod.com]
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-cant-declare-war-on-iran-or
Liz’s YouTube video for Legal Eagle, “The Largest Bribe in American History”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2pm3omzMI&t=3s
Nat’l Treasury Employees’ Union v. Nixon, 492 F.2d 587 (D.C. Cir. 1974)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4156385560315482496
INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2221871582286121199
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2 March 2026, 11:00 am - 1 hour 34 secondsEp 208 — You Get A Show Cause Order! And You Get A Show Cause Order!
DOCKET ALERTS:
The Justice Department is suing New Jersey for not letting ICE use state buildings and parks for immigration enforcement. Because the Tenth Amendment is basically a suggestion?
CBP agents dumped a blind, sick, refugee who spoke no English outside a doughnut shop in Buffalo because they couldn’t deport him. Local police are investigating his death.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to manhandle Anthropic into letting it use Claude for domestic surveillance and autonomous targeting.
MAIN SHOW:
ICE’s total refusal to follow the law has flooded federal courts with habeas corpus petitions, and judges are PISSED. On Thursday, two judges in Minnesota and one in New Jersey threatened to hold prosecutors in contempt of court over DOJ/DHS refusing to follow court orders in immigration cases.
The fascinating “Quince sues UGG” antitrust lawsuit is Last Brand, Inc. v. Deckers Outdoor Corporation. The (possibly even true) story of ugh, ugly, and finally ugg boots is told here by the Everything Australian company.
On Wednesday, Judge Brian Murphy ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of third-country removals was illegal.
And for subscribers, we’ll discuss Pete Hegseth’s battle with Anthropic and DHS’s theft of more than 42,000 tax returns from IRS’s database.
Links
US v. New Jersey
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72316303/united-states-v-new-jersey/
Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/us/shah-alam-blind-refugee-border-patrol-hnk
‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymakers
Cartagena Hueso v. Soto
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72279969/cartagena-hueso-v-soto/
D.V.D. v. Dep’t of Homeland Security (D. Mass. 2025) [docket via CourtListener]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282404/gov.uscourts.mad.282404.241.0.pdf
The Surprising History of the Aussie Ugg Boot
https://everythingaustralian.com.au/blog/post/the-surprising-history-of-the-aussie-ugg-boot
Last Brand, Inc. v. Deckers Outdoor Corporation (N.D. Cal. 2026) [docket via CourtListener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72311102/last-brand-inc-v-deckers-outdoor-corporation/
Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69646607/center-for-taxpayer-rights-v-internal-revenue-service
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27 February 2026, 11:00 am - 59 minutes 20 secondsEp 207 — Tariff Decisions Reveals SCOTUS Slapfight
DOCKET ALERTS:
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the stolen documents case must remain sealed forever in perpetuity.
Kouri Richins goes on trial for murdering her husband in Utah. She’s not being charged for writing a terrible children’s book about dealing with grief over the loss of a parent … but maybe she should be?
The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, allowed Louisiana to require the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom statewide. The law had been blocked, but the Court decided that no one had been injured yet, so the case is unripe.
Elon Musk is being sued for securities fraud in California. But they can’t seat a jury because everyone hates him.
MAIN SHOW:
It’s all about tariffs. We break down the Supreme Court’s Learning Resources v. Trump, and explain why dragging this case out for a year ensures chaos as importers try to recoup money they’ve already paid. And we’ll talk about Trump’s plan to impose new illegal tariffs based on a gross misinterpretation of yet another internal statute.
The opinion is particularly contentious, revealing the justices’ angry, internal feuding over the future of the court. And subscribers will get a deep dive into the origins of this conflict, reaching back to Justice Kagan’s famous 2015 “Antonin Scalia Lecture Series” lecture at Harvard Law School and extending through Justice Jackson’s concurrence in Learning Resources.
US v. Trump [stolen documents case]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/united-states-v-trump
Kouri Richins Warrant
https://www.scribd.com/document/654496602/Kouri-Richins-Warrant
Contempt for Musk clouds jury selection in Twitter takeover trial
https://www.courthousenews.com/contempt-for-musk-clouds-jury-selection-in-twitter-takeover-trial/
Roake v. Brumley [Fifth Circuit Ten Commandments]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.221848/gov.uscourts.ca5.221848.389.1.pdf
Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump [tariffs case]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1287_4gcj.pdf
Congressional Research Service, “Congressional and Presidential Authority to Impose Import Tariffs”
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48435/R48435.1.pdf
Elena Kagan “Antonin Scalia Lecture Series,” Harvard Law School (2015) [via YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpEtszFT0Tg
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