Plaintiff Kerkhoff, who is suing Blaze Media, Steve Baker, Joseph Hanneman, and their company Veritas Regnet for falsely accusing Kerkhoff of being the J5 Pipe Bomber, has filed for a default against Steve Baker, as he has failed to respond to the lawsuit.
If he is eager for Kerkhoff to “bring it” so that he can make “discovery a bitch” for her, he needs to like, idk, make a filing in the case.
Baker was required to file an answer or in some way respond to the complaint by May 13.
"Although Mr. Baker has not answered, moved, or otherwise responded to the Complaint, he has made several public statements acknowledging his awareness of it."
Steve Baker, Joseph Hanneman, and their company Veritas Regnat LLC have failed to respond to the libel and slander lawsuit brought against them over their erroneous claims that former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff was responsible for the J5 Pipe Bombs.
The judge has ordered the clerk to file an entry of default against them and for the plaintiffs to file a motion for default judgment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Blaze Media, which was also sued, has filed an unopposed motion for more time to respond to the suit. The judge gave them until June 11, 2026.
In public responses to the lawsuit, Baker has put on a "bring it on!" act, as if he were eager to fight it, to show what evidence he supposedly has, and to use the discovery process to expose some conspiracy to frame Brian J. Cole for the J5 pipe bombs when all along it was Shauni Kerkhoff who planted them as part of a sinister "fedsurrection" plot... or something.
🧵Media doesn't like it when the DOJ and the FBI get the green light from POTUS and the AG to prosecute people who compromise national security and then hide behind the 1A.
"The stack of news articles Trump provided the acting attorney general was about [MIL] rescue operations"
"Blanche vowed to secure subpoenas specifically targeting the records of reporters who have worked on sensitive national security stories..."
"In recent months, prosecutors have sent subpoenas to media organizations as well as to email and phone providers seeking information in leak inquiries"
DOJ Investigators Gain Access to Fulton's 2020 Election Records as County is Hit w/ New Subpoenas
Lawfare efforts from Abbe Lowell, Norm Eisen, and Fulton County had halted the DOJ’s review of the seized records—some 600 boxes of materials from the 2020 Election.
A federal court has now ruled in favor of the DOJ.
On January 28, 2026, the FBI raided a storage facility in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize records related to the 2020 election. The raid was conducted pursuant to several search warrants arising from a criminal probe into the 2020 election.
That probe is being led by Thomas Albus, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri and Special Counsel to the Attorney General.
During the raid, the FBI collected more than 600 boxes of records, including tabulator receipts, ballots, envelopes, digital records, and other materials.
Days later, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed legal action seeking (1) to stop the DOJ from reviewing the seized materials and (2) a court order requiring the records to be returned.
These motions came in addition to two other legal actions already underway before the raid: one in the Superior Court of Fulton County and another in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
High-powered attorneys Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen joined Fulton County in this lawfare effort.
🧵This VA Supreme Court Opinion is straight fire for ~30 pages.
"From Madison’s era to the present, political parties of every stripe have offered if-by-whiskey arguments supporting partisan gerrymandering."
"Virginians voted by a wide margin [in 2020] to reform the redistricting process in the Commonwealth in an effort to end partisan gerrymandering."
"Under the 2020 amendment, if this bipartisan commission could not reach a consensus, the responsibility to achieve the amendment’s ultimate goal — ridding political partisanship as much as possible from the redistricting task — would become the constitutional responsibility of the Supreme Court of Virginia."
In addition to co-owning the Cannabis Outlet, VA State Sen. Louise Lucas also has ownership in these businesses:
The Lucas Lodge, Portsmouth Day Support Program, and Southside Direct Care.
Those catch my eye. They are healthcare and disability assistance businesses.
Lucas Lodge in particular has a history of serious incidents, including deaths, and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services website shows multiple Corrective Action Plans (CAP) across the past five years.
In her role as a state senator, Lucas serves on the Education and Health Committee, which oversees Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), as well as the Departments of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) and Health (VDH).
I wonder if the FBI raid is in relation to either a) a fraud setup that is similar to what has been uncovered in Minnesota and/or b) an investigation by HHS-OIG or similar.
🧵"[DOJ] has demanded [via a federal grand jury subpoena] the identities of every worker who staffed the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., according to court records...
The demand targets employees of Fulton County elections as well as volunteer poll workers..." 1/n
"...workers, who likely numbered in the thousands during the 2020 election."
"It is not known what the Justice Department intends to do with the names of election workers."
I mean, my first guess would be interview them. 2/n
"The county received the grand jury subpoena for workers’ names on April 20, according to court records. The existence of the subpoena became public on Monday evening, when lawyers for Fulton County filed a motion attempting to block it." 3/n