<p dir="ltr">DOCKET ALERTS:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">US Attorney Jeanine Pirro wants to <a href= "https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28565563-260818-hearn-dismiss-reply"> leave the door open</a> to re-charging David Hearn for damaging the reflecting pool, although she concedes that literally everything she said in her original indictment was a lie.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Pirro is also doing her darnedest to keep a lady locked up for the high crime of <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74650269/united-states-v-farris/"> spraypainting</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Judge Reed O'Connor is <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.366145/gov.uscourts.txnd.366145.330.0.pdf"> trying</a> for a third time to allow manufacturers to sell ghost guns, no matter what the Supreme Court says.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">We're still waiting on the Supreme Court to <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26a203.html"> say</a> whether Trump can keep building his ballroom, or will have to cease above-ground construction as lower courts have ruled.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">MAIN SHOW:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">FCC Chair Brendan Carr is trying to burn down ABC for crimes of woke. But after he demanded that the ten local affiliates owned by the network renew their licenses early — likely a prelude to putting them out of business — ABC's parent company Disney swung into action. They <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.295648/gov.uscourts.dcd.295648.1.0_2.pdf"> sued</a> the agency for retaliation in violation of the First Amendment.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The DOJ's "8647" <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73256624/united-states-v-comey/?order_by=desc"> indictment</a> of James Comey is circling the drain. The government filed its responses to various motions today, and they are … creative! They quote at length from Comey's novel and his appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">In January, ICE agent Christian Castro shot Minnesota man Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and then filed a false report claiming that Sosa-Celis attacked him with a snow shovel. The charges against Sosa-Celis were quickly dropped, and in May state officials charged Castro with second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime and court issued a warrant for his arrest. By then, Castro was in Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott — the Law and Chaos DOOFUS OF THE DAY — has refused to extradite him to Minnesota as mandated by the Constitution's Extradition Clause. And so now Minnesota has <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2104014/gov.uscourts.txsd.2104014.2.0.pdf"> sued</a> Texas in federal court. </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">US v. Hearn Reply In Support of Motion to Dismiss Without Prejudice [via Marcy Wheeler]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28565563-260818-hearn-dismiss-reply"> https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28565563-260818-hearn-dismiss-reply</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">US v. Farris [spraypaint lady]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74650269/united-states-v-farris/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74650269/united-states-v-farris/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Vanderstok v. Blanche [ghost guns]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64886994/vanderstok-v-garland"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64886994/vanderstok-v-garland</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">National Park Service v. National Trust for Historic Preservation [SCOTUS Docket]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26a203.html"> https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26a203.html</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">ABC v. FCC</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74661956/american-broadcasting-companies-inc-v-federal-communications-commission/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74661956/american-broadcasting-companies-inc-v-federal-communications-commission/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">US v. Comey [docket via CourtListener]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73256624/united-states-v-comey/?order_by=desc"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73256624/united-states-v-comey/?order_by=desc</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Walz v. Abbott</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74662182/walz-v-abbott/">https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74662182/walz-v-abbott/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Show Links:</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.lawandchaospod.com/">https://www.lawandchaospod.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p dir="ltr">Threads: @LawAndChaosPod Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p> </p>