Ep 136 — Trump Announces Plan To Break Law. Gets Immediately Enjoined. Again.
Release Date: 05/27/2025
Ep 147 — Happy Birthday, America?
Law and Chaos
We may not know how to fix America, but we can tell you the law of fireworks! Plus the latest on Kilmar Abrego Garcia and what it tells us about how Homeland Security is carrying out Trump’s deportation regime. Plus, Trump’s lawyers are learning so much about civil procedure by getting their asses kicked all over Iowa. Links: Hundreds of Jan 6ers Are Hoping For Big DOJ Payday US v. Russell [Docket via Court Listener] Abrego Garcia v. Noem [Docket via Court Listener] US v. Garcia [Docket via Court Listener] Trump v. Selzer [Docket via Court...
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Ep 146 — The Conservative Justices Seize Power
Law and Chaos
The Supreme Court’s last day of the term was an exercise of raw power. The six conservative justices gave lower courts the back of their hand, making clear that they — and only they! — will decide the law. Nationwide injunctions are out, and so is stare decisis. Andrew and Liz will break down the power grab, along with Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which the howler monkey wing allowed religious parents to opt their kids out of the “religious coercion” of reading books about gay people. Links: Kennedy v. Braidwood Management. ...
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Ep 145 — SCOTUS Aims For Photo Finish … Gives Us Disaster Porn
Law and Chaos
The Trump administration’s war on the judiciary continues, and this time he’s suing judges. Also, he’s trying to install his henchman Emil Bove in the Third Circuit as a reward for burning down the firewall between the White House and the DOJ. Luckily SCOTUS is distracting us by cramming as many horrible decisions as possible into the last two days of the term. Links: SCOTUS 23-1002 Hewitt v. United States https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1002_1p24.pdf SCOTUS 23-1275 Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic SCOTUS 23-7809 Gutierrez v. Saenz ...
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Ep 144 — Don’t Make Us Side With Disney And Harvard
Law and Chaos
The Supreme Court’s howler monkey wing greenlights Trump’s third country renditions without notice and cuts the legs out from underneath the entire federal judiciary. So much for CJ Roberts, protector of the courts! And the Ninth Circuit lets Trump steal California’s National Guard for a fictitious emergency. In better news, Harvard gets an injunction against the government’s effort to kneecap it by blocking foreign students. And Disney takes on Midjourney, the AI company whose business model appears to rest on wholesale copyright infringement. Links: Supreme Court...
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Ep 143 — SCOTUS Bullies Trans Kids
Law and Chaos
This week the Supreme Court’s conservatives greenlit an all-out attack on trans kids and their healthcare. So much for parents’ rights! At least Alex Jones is still bankrupt. And the trustee in his bankruptcy case just sued him to claw back millions of dollars in “fraudulent” transfers to his friends and family. Plus, we’ll discuss NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, Judge Hannah Dugan, and everyone else swept up in ICE’s deranged dragnet. Links: US v. Skrmetti (S. Ct. 2025) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf Alex Jones bankruptcy (S.D....
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Ep 142 — Who Is The Administrator of DOGE (feat. Anna Bower)
Law and Chaos
Liz and Andrew welcome Lawfare’s Anna Bower back to the show to discuss her singular obsession: who is the administrator of DOGE? Find out why that’s still a critical question and what discovering the answer might mean in terms of undoing policy, preserving records, and more. Links: Who Is The Administrator of DOGE, by Anna Bower Show Links: BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod Threads: @LawAndChaosPod Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod
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Ep 141 — California to Trump: DROP DEAD
Law and Chaos
A federal judge has ruled that Donald Trump illegally seized control of the California National Guard. We tell you everything that means and what happens next. Also, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is home and facing trumped-up charges in Tennessee. And Alina Habba is still cosplaying as a prosecutor, and this time she’s decided to try and indict a sitting member of Congress for doing her job. Links: Newsom v. Trump [Docket via Court Listener] Abrego Garcia v. Noem [Docket via Court Listener] US v. Abrego Garcia [docket via Court Listener] US v. Mciver [Docket via...
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Ep 140 — Protest =/= Rebellion
Law and Chaos
The Trump administration is trying to provoke a riot in California by “federalizing” the National Guard. We’ll tell you what that means and what legal recourse blue states and cities have to resist being occupied by the military. Plus, it turns out that the Trump administration could facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after all, it just needed to gin up a dubious criminal indictment first. And finally, Justin Baldoni’s trollsuit against Blake Lively meets precisely the demise we told you it would. Links: US v. Abrego Garcia [docket via Court Listener] ...
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Ep 139 — You Get A Civ Pro, And You Get A Civ Pro…
Law and Chaos
Justin Baldoni’s lawyers are wilding out, the Justice Department is suing to purge North Carolina’s voter rolls, and Pillow Pumper Mike Lindell is teaching us about journalism shield laws. And for subscribers: Have Trump’s minions discovered one weird trick that will allow them to steal Congress’s tariff authority? Links: Kingdom v. Trump Trump's Justice Department examining pardons issued by Biden US v. Navarro https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63359365/united-states-v-navarro/ J.G.G. v. Trump [District Court Docket] Wayfarer Studios v....
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Ep 138 — Trump Admin Courts Contempt In Every Court At Once
Law and Chaos
The Trump Administration is putting the Justice Department in a terrible bind. DOJ lawyers can tell judges the truth and admit that the government is deliberately violating court orders. Or they can bob and weave and prevaricate and cross their fingers and hope it all comes out okay. But that strategy is running into a brick wall as courts are increasingly ruling against the government. Plus for subscribers: How low will SCOTUS go to protect the sacred right to walk around with a giant murder cannon slung over our shoulders? Links: The Trump Administration Is Lawless. Judges Are...
info_outlinePresident Trump’s genius plan to announce that he’s about to violate the First Amendment — and then do it! — runs into the judicial buzzsaw as two federal courts restrain his attacks on Harvard and the law firm Jenner & Block. And his campaign’s lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer continues to be a humiliating series of self-owns. But SCOTUS hands the administration a win by allowing the president to fire anyone and everyone. They exempted Fed Chair Jerome Powell for, uh, reasons.
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Jenner & Block v. DOJ [Docket via Court Listener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69807126/jenner-block-llp-v-us-department-of-justice
Trump v. Selzer [Docket via Court Listener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69476247/trump-v-selzer/
Trump Allies Look to Benefit From Pro Bono Promises by Elite Law Firms
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/trump-law-firms-pro-bono.html
Trump v. Wilcox [Supreme Court order]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a966_1b8e.pdf
Seila Law v. CFPB
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-7_n6io.pdf
President and Fellows of Harvard College v. DHS [docket via CourtListener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70349156/president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college-v-united-states-department-of/
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