Trump lawyer John Sauer is arguing against the DC elections case gag order. He's getting knocked around pretty good with his absolutist 1st Amend argument.

Trump's argument is that no one has been threatened because of his words. He conveniently omits to mention that someone has been indicted for threatening to kill Judge Chutkan.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

The Durham report is going to give me an aneurysm.

The absolute balls on this guy, prefacing this 316-p conspiracy rant by tut-tutting that the DOJ should never slander unindicted parties.
justice.gov/storage/durham… He goes on to cite former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein saying "we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation."

Anyone remember where that quote came from? Let's check out footnote 55, shall we?

Just cracking open this "unlawful abuses of power, wide-ranging sexual assault and harassment, wage theft, and other misconduct" complaint against Rudy Giuliani from former employee Noelle Dunphy (h/t @frankrunyeon) and OMGOMGOMG
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDoc… Rudy hired Dunphy in secret to hide her employment from his wife's divorce lawyers, agreed to simultaneously represent Dunphy, convinced her to defer her compensation, and was all the time trying to sleep with her. ALLEGEDLY.

I'm on page 2.

At the E. Jean Carroll trial this morning, Judge Kaplan is PISSED about Trump's social media posts about the trial.

https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1651229219907616770

FTR, I'm not sure that "new source of potential liability" is contempt. This second case for defamation arose out of similar statements Trump made in October — it seems the court is implying that, if Trump keeps commenting, he's going to keep getting sued.

Dominion or Grossberg suit?
press.foxnews.com/2023/04/fox-ne… Producer Abby Grossberg sued Fox for discrimination, and her allegations about working for Carlson's show were appalling.

We already know she had tapes from the time she worked for Bartiromo ...

I just finished reading Trump's insane clown LOLsuit against Michael Cohen and ... honestly I'm gobsmacked.

I read Trump lawsuits for a living. That is my IRL job.

And I just ... WHAT THE EVERLOVING F---???
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… A real lawyer put his name on it. Not even as local counsel for one of Trump's merry band of nitwit JDs.

But, nope! Total rancid word salad.

Trump's real lawyer ➡️ britopllc.com/alejandro-brit…

Dog vomit ⬇️

Judge Middlebrooks is PISSED

Sanctions order in the Trump RICO LOLsuit against Hillary Clinton and half of DC

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Ho. Lee. Shit.

"This appeal requires us to consider whether the district court had jurisdiction to block the United States from using lawfully seized records in a criminal investigation. The answer is no."

BOOM.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f… "We are faced with a choice: apply our usual test; drastically expand availability of equitable jurisdiction for every subject of a search warrant; or carve out an unprecedented exception for former presidents. We choose the first option. So the case must be dismissed."

Kari Lake's lawyers, including Alan Dershowitz, just got sanctioned for filing a garbage election lawsuit.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Is it good when the judge describes your case as "mere conjectural claims of potential injuries" and says, while that's fine for TV and social media, "Rule 11 requires more?"

It seems kinda bad.

The DOJ's appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon's imposition of a special master in the Mar-a-Lago case is beginning.

Sopan Joshi is up now for the government.

Panel is Judge Pryor and Judges Brasher and Grant, two Trump appointees who ruled in favor of the government in the last round First question for Joshi is whether there has ever been an exercise of equitable-anomalous jurisdiction when the search was lawful.

There hasn't, and there's been no demonstrated need for the return of the materials.

Trump just asked Judge Cannon to let him see the unredacted affidavit supporting the Mar-a-Lago search warrant.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… The filing is gonzo, as usual, characterizing routine criminal procedure as an outrageous abuse of government power.

Trump says he's suing NY Attorney General Tish James in a local Florida court.

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the everloving fuck??? Okay, here's this dumb turkey of a lawsuit.

Spoiler Alert: It's DUMB.
documentcloud.org/documents/2325…

Look, I know it's about six hours after Eastman deposited this particular offering in the Ninth Circuit's punch bowl, but since none of the usual suspects have pointed out how amazingly batshit it is, I will do the honors.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2323… John Eastman, Trump's coup lawyer extraordinaire, has been fighting for months to stop Chapman University from releasing his emails to the J6C.

Why does Chapman have them? Oh, because he used his work email to do his coup-ing.

He's no longer at the school for ... reasons.

John Eastman had 9 days to appeal Judge Carter’s order to disclose emails to the J6C by 2pm/5pm. Last night he asked for a stay pending an as yet unfiled appeal to the 9th Circuit. He just *now* filed a motion to extend the deadline to produce. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Background on this dingbat and his leisurely filings abovethelaw.com/2022/10/john-e…

Bannon responds to DOJ recommendation that he get the 6mo max sentence, in part because he showed disdain for the criminal process.

Says he has the utmost respect for the court, but prosecutors and the J6C are assholes.

Very on brand.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… "Defiance in the face of government wrongdoing is reverence for justice."

LOL, try decaf weirdo

Trump is suing CNN for defamation. He wants $75M compensatory damages, $475 punitives.

Lawyers are Halligan and Trusty.

JFC.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Trump says that CNN "reported as true fact, with purported factual support" that he is Hitler.

BREAKING: Judge Cannon just cut the teeth out of special master Judge Dearie's order. Gives Trump every modification he asked for.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… In his objections to Judge Dearie's case management plan, Trump complained of being forced to say if any items on the inventory were planted — forcing him to give up the lie he's been flogging for weeks.

Cannon nixed that provision of the order.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Trump's answer to the government's latest discovery motion in his Mar-a-Lago special master case is a shrieking pile of garbage. Shocker!

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… Are they saying that they made an inadvertent ex parte communication? That they didn't mean to file their objections to the special master plan under seal? Or ... something else?

BREAKING: Judge Dearie files Case Management Plan in his role as special master in Trump warrant case.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… 9/26: Government submits detailed inventory of items seized

9/30: Trump has to put up or shut up on his claims that the government planted something during the raid. Also state if anything taken is missing from the list.

DOJ gets stay in Trump warrant case, won't have to disclose classified docs to special master or Trump's lawyers.

Worth noting that the panel is two Trump appointees (Grant and Brasher), and an Obama appointee (Rosenbaum). They're not all loose Cannons.
politico.com/f/?id=00000183… LOL, the appeals court noticed Judge Cannon's fudge, where she claimed to be granting equitable relief under Rule 41, while Trump said he wasn't filing a Rule 41 motion, but might do so later.

BREAKING: NYAG James sues Trump, Vanky, Deej, Eric, and the Trump Org seeking to get them banned from doing business in the state of New York

Link to complaint:
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDoc… AG demands $250M and a complete un-personing