Ep 258 — Florida Corruptionpalooza

DOCKET ALERTS:

Washington Post opinion writer Karen Attiah, who was fired for her remarks after the death of Charlie Kirk, has been reinstated to her job after winning in arbitration.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook responded to Trump's latest effort to fire her by pointing out that multiple members of Trump's own cabinet made the same paperwork error she did on a mortgage application, and no one is accusing them of fraud.

Judge David Hittner, an 87-year-old Reagan appointee, struck down Texas's drag ban, finding that it would necessarily criminalize a lot of performances that are not obscene … including ones by Dolly Parton.

DOOFUS OF THE DAY:

Mike Lindell, the crackpot pillow pumper, lost his bid to be the Republican gubernatorial candidate in his home state of Minnesota. And he missed the deadline to pay for a recount. But he's not letting that stop him! He's suing everyone in sight demanding they surrender proof that the entire thing was rigged.

MAIN SHOW:

Florida Republicans are embroiled in a massive corruption scandal involving $10 million in taxpayer dollars for children's prescriptions, laundered through First Lady Casey Desantis's charity, and used for partisan political purposes, including defeating a marijuana legalization referendum. CBS in Miami got the grand jury report.

Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. rebuffed Minnesota's motion to force Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to extradite ICE agent Christian Castro. Castro shot a man in Minneapolis and then lied about it, including filing a false police report. He was indicted in Minnesota, but Texas refuses to sign an extradition warrant, and now Castro has been released from jail.

Judge Cooper held a hearing today on the future of the Kennedy Center, after the board voted again to chisel Trump's name into the marble on the front of the place.

Judge Indira Talwani ordered the state plaintiffs to file an amended complaint in their effort to block the Trump administration seizing control of mail-in voting pursuant to Trump's executive order. Last week, the Supreme Court's conservatives blocked Judge Talwani's prior injunction on the theory that the states hadn't yet been harmed when they filed their original complaint.

SUBSCRIBER BONUS:

Update on Tuesday's hearing in our FOIA suit to get the evidence in the DOJ's ethics complaint against Judge Boasberg.

The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.

https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-i-foughtand

Extragrams LLC v. Paxton [TX drag ban]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67660604/extragrams-llc-v-paxton

Walz v. Abbott [S.D. Tex. extradition case; docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74662182/walz-v-abbott/

Trump v. California [Supreme Court order re: voter lists EO]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/26a124_hgci.pdf

League of Women Voters v. Trump [D. Mass. voter list case before Judge Talwani; docket via CourtListener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73133197/league-of-women-voters-of-massachusetts-v-trump/