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DOCKET ALERTS:
Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, Republicans are insisting that the lone gunman at the White House Correspondents Dinner means that Trump can — in fact, must! — build his illegal ballroom. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tweeted out a demand for the National Historic Trust to drop its lawsuit. The Trust told him to get bent.
Trump's shakedown of the IRS hit a snag as a federal judge in Florida said she may not have jurisdiction over a case where the plaintiff and the defendant are the same person — Donald Trump.
And EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is being so weird at Congress. Is he bad at law, or just lying?
MAIN SHOW:
It's a courtroom brawl between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over the past and future of AI. Musk claims he was swindled out of seed money by claims that OpenAI would be operated as a non-profit, only to watch the company pivot to a trillion-dollar for-profit enterprise. The jury is empaneled, and the trial begins this week.
The Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in Chatrie v. US. The case involves law enforcement's use of "geofencing" data to find criminal suspects based on their cell phone location data. Should the government have to get a warrant to collect that info? What should those warrants look like?
Court Side-Eyes Trump's Plan To Sue Himself And Loot The Treasury
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/court-side-eyes-trumps-plan-to-sue
Shuffle Up And Deal [Subscriber Bonus Episode]
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-subscriber-up-156633231
Musk v. Altman
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69013420/musk-v-altman
National Trust rejects Trump demand to drop ballroom suit in wake of shooting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/27/trump-ballroom-national-trust-lawsuit/
Oral argument in Chatrie v. US [geofencing warrants]
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2025/25-112_o758.pdf
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