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Congratulations to now-former FBI director Andrew Bailey, who resigned this morning and got out of the way of whatever scandal is coming down the pike. On Friday, a jury <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.705779/gov.uscourts.casd.705779.707.0.pdf"> ordered</a> Apple to pay $5.7 billion to a company called Taction for <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.casd.705779/gov.uscourts.casd.705779.1.0.pdf"> infringing its haptic patents</a>. The White House is still blocking CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the Oval Office and excluding CNN from pool duties. Does that violate Judge Kelly's <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.296754/gov.uscourts.dcd.296754.24.0_2.pdf"> TRO</a>? Dua Lipa is <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.1019396/gov.uscourts.cacd.1019396.1.0.pdf"> suing</a> Samsung for $15 million after the company used her photo on packaging for televisions without paying for it. DOOFUS OF THE DAY: Kansas Senator Roger Marshall is very hot for us all to know that he didn't sue his obstetrics patient for $50. He sued her for $3,400, and got her locked up over it. And he's sending a cease and desist letter to his opponent Adam Hamilton for making an ad about it — that'll shut 'em up! MAIN SHOW: The Trump administration is back on its <a href= "https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/president-trump-takes-historic-action-to-eliminate-wasteful-and-harmful-spending/"> "pocket rescission" BS</a>, purporting to cancel $1 billion of congressional allocations by waiting until the end of the session and shouting "MAKE ME!" A guy who calls himself the "OnlyFans lawyer" has filed a dozen lawsuits in DC on behalf of January 6 rioters. They want reparations under the Federal Tort Claims Act, now that the slush fund is DOA. The Supreme Court <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a388_q86b.pdf">finally put an end</a> to the shenanigans in Missouri, ensuring that the state will not be able to switch out its maps and squeeze out another Republican seat in Congress. But the Supreme Court also <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a308_pok0.pdf">stayed a DC court injunction</a>, paving the way for red states to use borked DHS immigration data to try and kick registered voters off of its voter rolls, if only one-by-one. And Donald Trump is using your taxpayer dollars <a href= "https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/09/presidential-public-service-announcements-are-nothing-new/"> to run ads</a> urging everyone to love him. That's <a href= "https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/260924_letter_to_wh_re_trump_ad.pdf"> definitely not legal</a> under the <a href= "https://www.gao.gov/products/b-331262">GAO's standards</a> for what counts as "publicity or propaganda." Taction Technology, Inc. v. Apple Inc. <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59854908/taction-technology-inc-v-apple-inc"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59854908/taction-technology-inc-v-apple-inc</a> CNN v. Trump <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74823502/cable-news-network-inc-v-trump/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74823502/cable-news-network-inc-v-trump</a> Dua Lipa v. Samsung <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73319650/dua-lipa-v-samsung-electronics-america-inc/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73319650/dua-lipa-v-samsung-electronics-america-inc/</a> White House "Pocket Rescission" Announcement <a href= "https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/president-trump-takes-historic-action-to-eliminate-wasteful-and-harmful-spending/"> https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/09/president-trump-takes-historic-action-to-eliminate-wasteful-and-harmful-spending/</a> People Not Politicians v. Onder [Supreme Court Missouri map order] <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a388_q86b.pdf">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a388_q86b.pdf</a> Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters [Supreme Court SAVE order] <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a308_pok0.pdf">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a308_pok0.pdf</a> Congressional Letter to the White House re: ads <a href= "https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/260924_letter_to_wh_re_trump_ad.pdf"> https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/260924_letter_to_wh_re_trump_ad.pdf</a> White House "PSA" Announcement <a href= "https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/09/presidential-public-service-announcements-are-nothing-new/"> https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/09/presidential-public-service-announcements-are-nothing-new/</a> Public Law 118-47 (Section 715 on propaganda) <a href= "https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882/text"> https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2882/text</a> GAO Decision, "Executive Agencies—Communications about the 2019 Fourth of July Events on the National Mall," B-331262 <a href= "https://www.gao.gov/products/b-331262">https://www.gao.gov/products/b-331262</a> Show Links: <a href= "https://www.lawandchaospod.com/">https://www.lawandchaospod.com/</a> BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod Threads: @LawAndChaosPod Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod