Ep 254 — More Like the Department of Manifest Injustice

DOCKET ALERTS:

 

The Kennedy Center board of trustees is back on its BS. After being ordered to take Trump's name off the side of the building, they've now voted again to put it back on. They also voted to close the facility for two years. Rep. Joyce Beatty, who brought the lawsuit that forced them to back off the first time, vows to fight on.

 

Meanwhile musician Chuck Redd was just awarded $252,000 in attorneys fees after the Center sued him for breaching a contract he never signed.

 

Judge Roy Altman is Aileen Cannon-balling it up in Trump's trollsuit against the BBC. This week he allowed Trump to amend his complaint yet again for "good cause." What good cause could there be to sue a company which never broadcast the supposedly defamatory documentary in the US?

 

MAIN SHOW:

 

The Washington Post reports that Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for DC, has empaneled a special grand jury. Corruption incoming!

 

The DOJ has amended the indictment of the SPLC again. This time they've added a former employee who ran its Intelligence Project and managed its paid informants. The case is no less preposterous with an extra defendant and a couple more charges.

 

The Ninth Circuit issued a hugely consequential ruling on Section 230 immunity for websites, and Liz and Andrew do not agree at all about it.

 

SUBSCRIBER BONUS:

 

Judge Richard Stearns in Massachusetts swatted down the DOJ's effort to shout "antisemitism" and steal $950 million from Harvard.

 

Trump v. BBC

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72040010/trump-v-british-broadcasting-corporation/

 

Pirro, in rare move, convenes special grand jury in Washington

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/12/pirro-convenes-unusual-grand-jury-dc-that-can-focus-single-case-issue-report/

 

US v. Southern Poverty Law Center 

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

 

Colorado v. Meta [9th Circuit opinion]

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2026/08/10/24-7265.pdf

 

US v. Harvard

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72520538/united-states-v-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college/

 

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