Ep 211 — Go Woke, Go … KA-CHING!

DOCKET ALERTS:

War Powers Resolution fails in both Houses of Congress.

DHS is ramping up for an immigration surge in Maryland and has purchased an 825,000-square-foot warehouse in Hagerstown. The state is suing to block the facility on environmental grounds. In Baltimore, Judge Julie Rubin joins judges in New York and Los Angeles in holding that ICE is systematically violating the Fifth Amendment rights of immigrants in “temporary” detention by holding them for days on end without hygiene, medical care, or access to counsel.

Kalshi customers have filed a class action suit over the company’s refusal to pay out on bets — oops, we mean CONTRACT SWAPS — that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would leave office as Supreme Leader of Iran before March 1.

Trump continues to defy the Constitution’s requirement that he get Senate approval for principal officers. We discussed it in our post on Judge Lamberth holding that Kari Lake was never legally serving as head of the US Agency for Global Media, and thus her directives are null and void. And Judge Matthew Brann has ruled once again that Attorney General Pam Bondi can’t evade senate confirmation for the US Attorney in New Jersey — no, not even if she spreads the appointment out among three lawyers, not just one.

And we’ll talk about the Trump administration’s humiliating U-turn as it tries to un-dismiss the appeal in the case of the executive orders targeting law firms, as well as Anthropic’s complaint against the government. Turns out, defying Trump can be good for business!

Subscriber Bonus: The Trump administration just dismissed the antitrust suit against Live Nation mid-trial for, uh, reasons.

ICE awards $113 million to build out Hagerstown detention center

https://www.thebanner.com/politics-power/national-politics/ice-hagerstown-detention-center-contract-AHIV2KEHQJAVFMWBYKO2YBWOCU/

Maryland v. Noem [ICE Warehouse]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72313096/state-of-maryland-v-noem/?order_by=desc

D.N.N. v. Liggins [ICE temporary holding facility in Baltimore]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70321567/dnn-v-liggins/

Risch v. Kalshi

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72371954/risch-v-kalshiex-llc/

Judge Rules That Kari Lake Is Still A Loser [Law and Chaos]

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/judge-rules-that-kari-lake-is-still

US v. Naviwala [US Attorney New Jersey]