When I saw the complaint I confess I wondered about the contents of the demand letter. So specific denied details got cut, but other damning details made it to the published story....

The complaint

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Kash Patel's libel suit against Atlantic Magazine (filed in federal court to ensure non-coverage by the DC antiSLAPP law)

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In 1992, Thomas said.....

Query whether presidential immunity would bar actions comparable to United States v Snepp seeking to recover for breach of fiduciary duty

Train tickets to 2026 World Cup at MetLife Stadium from NYC to cost more than $100 A return ticket via NJ Transit for the 18-mile journey from New York Pennsylvania Station ordinarily costs $12.90.

Profiteering just like FIFA. Yuck

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The story links to a legislative summary but not to the text of the statute

Megan, could you please post a link to the CourtListener document

Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs

Does Vance object to the Pope's weighing in on abortion?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Commenters insist on spoiling this skeeter's fun by pointing out that what he wants said loudly is utter nonsense

An Open Letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr An unsolicited plea for dignity, from a former FCC Chief Counsel.

Classic from Bob Corn-Revere to Brendan Carr, alluding to the way Bondi was fired:

My advice: don't get into a car with the President anytime soon

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I didn't feel so confident about Katsas

No, not at all. And arguments in the DC Circuit notoriously go much longer than the assigned time.

Many thanks to Melania Trump for putting the Epstein issue back into the headlines

Or, perhaps, better to leave bad law in the Fifth Circuit while law in other circuits continues to be good and improve. Putting issues in play at a bad Supreme Court is not always the best strategy

Fake news... but hilarious

Actually there was intense strategic planning. But the warnings were disregardedcto push Epstein off the front pages

You are just as creduloua as the standard MAGA

Next time maybe read the full story BEFORE you post your standard whining. Hurts your credibility

Horseradish!

Presidential immunity

Do you celebrate a Freedom Seder? Our family has been doing that since 1970, revising regularly to address changing issues. You can likely connect with others who do that.

This year we will be in Egypt for Passover, discussing the departure from Egypt IN Egypt

Then you are traveling in the wrong crowd. Connect with JVP or JFJ. There must be one in your area.

So maybe you have to look at the documents to figure out what's going down here

I have not opened any of the documents but it is not clear to me that a default judgment has been granted. The docket reflects that there was an ORDER o the motions for default and for default judgment, then the next entry is that a briefing schedule has been set

How many divisions does the Constitution have?

Judge Brasel's PI against ICE in D Minn strongly implies that DoJ used AI-hallucinated quotations in its papers. Note also a few pages later: cross-examination tore apart the vague factual averments in the affidavit of its main witness

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Have you asked your councilmember for help? Over the years Brianne's constituent service staff to be very helpful

I rather appreciate the irony that the defense to claims of secondary liability for copyright infringement that was established in Sony Corp v Betamax is what led to this week's ruling barring the claim for infringement in Cox Communications v Sony Music

Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google - Public Citizen After Rocky Mountain Bank mistakenly sent an email with attached records about more than one thousand customers to a Gmail…

/4 Our Ninth Circuit appeal in Rocky Mt. National Bank v Google is here: www.citizen.org/litigation/r...