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Josh Barro and Ken White

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  • Friday · 22 min

    Not Paid for By the US Government

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show President Trump said he’d stop using taxpayer money to air what certainly look like campaign ads, but then he kept doing it, so now, the Democratic National Committee is suing. Also this week: a Minnesota teenager arranged to buy an assault rifle to carry out an ISIS-inspired attack on the Mall of America — of course, it turned out the seller of the rifle was an undercover FBI agent, and the teen was arrested. Also in Minnesota, the government is mad at Patrick Schlitz and other federal judges for their public remarks criticizing the government’s disregard for their orders. That’s for all listeners this week. Paying subscribers also hear about some particularly weird cases: * A manslaughter case in Arizona where the victim was allowed to give an impact statement despite being dead — his sister wrote a script for an AI-generated avatar to read in court. * An IRS whistleblower who says the IRS maliciously leaked the fact that he paid his taxes late once, and an FBI whistleblower who says the government opened an unconstitutional investigation into anti-ICE protestors because the president saw a TikTok he didn’t like. * The UK’s explanation of why it wants the Tate brothers extradited. * A fight over Dolly Parton’s estate, and * The “Shrek’s penis” trial. To hear the whole episode, upgrade your subscription at www.serioustrouble.show.

  • October 3 · 29 min

    Very Special Prosecutors

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show A former Cornell University student has filed a Jane Doe lawsuit accusing seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity of sexual misconduct, including rape, in an incident that occurred in October 2024. We discuss this case, and the actions and conclusions of the local district attorney, who Governor Kathy Hochul has replaced with a special prosecutor (Letitia James, the attorney general). We also discuss the continued unraveling of President Trump’s pet “grand conspiracy” investigation in south Florida, Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s lawsuit over the review of her phone records, and a lawyer who came at Andrew Weissmann and missed. That’s for all listeners. For paying subscribers this week, we also cover: * The very unfair judge who is thwarting President Trump’s heroic efforts to prosecute that Olympic canoeist who wantonly destroyed the lining of his favorite reflecting pool. (Sad!) * Sheri Mecklenburg’s self-serving, but also partially convincing, resignation letter, saying she’s been made into the fall-woman for failures by US Attorney Andrew Boutros in Chicago in the botched “Broadview Six” prosecution related to anti-ICE protests. * A DC Circuit loss for Anthropic. * A new defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens. * A bribery mistrial for DC Councilman Trayon White, and * An update in the Kyrsten Sinema alienation-of-affection case. Upgrade your subscription at www.serioustrouble.show.

  • September 25 · 23 min

    Public Disclosure of Privates Facts

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Donald Trump tried to ban CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House and, as Trump himself predicted, he was almost immediately ordered by a federal court to let those outlets back in. The judge was unimpressed with the government’s claims that the outlets were ejected on national security grounds, partly because that contradicts the president’s own public statements. But it’s an argument he loves to make in court — he says his planned triumphal arch near Arlington Cemetery serves a national security purpose, as does his ballroom and his efforts to block wind turbine projects. Courts traditionally give the president a wide berth on national security, but these increasingly implausible claims are leading courts to impose more scrutiny. Those conversations (plus a look at how aesthetic standing may matter again in litigation over that arch) are for all listeners. Paying subscribers also get our conversations about: * That ProPublica story about a federal investigation that looked at Susan Collins but did not lead to indictments of her or anyone in her direct orbit. * A prosecution for online threats against ICE in Tennessee. * Elizabeth Holmes’ impending move to a halfway house. * Clavicular’s indictment for rape in Massachusetts. * And an ignominious end to Matt Kalil’s lawsuit against his ex-wife, who wantonly told the whole world about his enormous penis. If you’re not a paying subscriber and you want to hear about all that, go to www.serioustrouble.show.

  • September 18 · 40 min

    Kennedy, Centered

    Remember Joseph DiGenova? He was a Trump defender from the first administration brought back to help with the investigation into the investigators that DOJ is running down in south Florida. Well, he’s gone again. He seems to have had some disputes with the Attorney General about the conduct of that investigation — “if you want indictments where there’s no evidence, you have an ethical problem,” he told the New York Post. Plus: Donald Trump continues to be stymied in his efforts to rename the Kennedy Center after himself — his latest threat is that he’ll tear down the building if he doesn’t get his way. Former immigration judge Chloe Dillon sues over her firing, Mahmoud Khalil sues,Columbia University, injunctions against ICE and legal victories for people who were fired for saying not-nice things about Charlie Kirk, a lawsuit against Lufthansa, whose employee outed a gay couple in Saudi Arabia — does that create a claim in the United States, where they were flying to? And finally: Kash Patel and bizarrely relaxed hiring metrics at the FBI and a right-wing media figure who resolved defamation litigation with an apology for lying about Patel’s girlfriend. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.serioustrouble.show/subscribe

  • September 11 · 22 min

    Mistrial

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: the Lindsay Clancy murder trial jury hung 11-1, ending in a mistrial. We discuss how judges press juries to agree, and why they maybe shouldn’t. And the Tate brothers — one of whom has possessed a fake Mexican passport in the name of “Vladimir Scorpius” — unsurprisingly failed to convince a judge to give them bail pending extradition. We also discuss UEFA, the European soccer body, seeking help from American courts with a criminal investigation of FIFA’s effort to sell an equity stake in world soccer to a group led by Jared Kushner’s brother, Josh Kushner. Free listeners get our discussion of those cases. Upgrade your subscription to hear about: * Indiana prosecutors have decided the woman who falsely accused Pete Buttigieg of being a risk to his children is too insane to face criminal charges. * Former ICE agent Christian Castro wasn’t extradited to face criminal charges in Minnesota, but somewhat surprisingly, he’s now under a federal indictment. * Trump won’t get to revive his birthright citizenship restrictions, but he can proceed with building his ballroom, as Ken and I discuss who has the least plausible theory of aesthetic standing. * Marco Rubio faces a blow to his efforts to deport non-citizen left-wing student activists. * The alienation of affection lawsuit against former senator Kyrsten Sinema will proceed in a North Carolina federal court, to the apparent annoyance of the judge who will have to preside over it, and * Lebohang Morake, the guy who wrote and performed the Zulu chant at the start of The Lion King, owes legal fees because of a dumb lawsuit he filed against a comedian who offered an incorrect story of what the lyrics mean. Don’t sue over jokes, people.

  • August 27 · 27 min

    If You Can’t Trust Michael Cohen, Who Can You Trust?

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Most federal prosecutors win almost all the time, in part because they are careful about the cases they bring and in part because they’re good at their jobs. Lately, Jeanine Pirro’s US Attorney’s office in Washington D.C. has only been winning about half the time. This week, we discuss what’s likely driving the substantial number of acquittals and mistrials. We also look at Ghislaine Maxwell’s unsuccessful pro se appeal, and about whether it matters that Michael Cohen recanted (sort of) his testimony that helped convict Donald Trump in the Manhattan DA’s falsification of business records case. That’s for all listeners this week. Paying subscribers also hear about: * A partial victory for Alex Jones on appeal of the defamation judgment against him in Texas * A win on appeal for James O’Keefe that causes us to revisit the Food Lion case. * A defamation loss for The New York Times. * A terse Supreme Court order on the White House ballroom, with more likely to come, and * Trump’s latest Kennedy Center litigation gambit: Threatening to tear down the building. Upgrade your subscription to hear the whole episode at serioustrouble.show.

  • August 20 · 21 min

    The Happiest Place on Earth (a Courtroom)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Like some of the big law firms, Disney hoped to buy peace with the Trump administration through a bogus settlement. It didn’t work. Disney is now suing the FCC, saying the commission’s move to review its broadcast licenses early is unconstitutional retaliation for its speech — namely, ABC broadcasts the president doesn’t like. Our discussion of the ABC litigation is for all listeners this week. For paying subscribers, Ken and Josh discuss Luigi Mangione’s choice to plead guilty in federal court with no plea deal; another rejected Trump administration gambit to install US attorneys without the Senate’s approval; a victory for Harvard in litigation with the Trump administration; expert witness AI shenanigans; and the mailbox-rifling congressman. To hear the full episode and every full episode of Serious Trouble, subscribe here.

  • August 14 · 22 min

    Because I Got Highly Likely to Lose an Anti-SLAPP Motion

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The Tate brothers want bail pending their extradition proceedings to the United Kingdom, which is a long shot, not just because their social media is full of statements about how they are flight risks. “You can’t ban me from driving, I have nine drivers licenses. You can’t freeze my passport, I have four.” Also this week: trouble for Rep. Max Miller, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s new special grand jury, opposition to President Trump’s new effort to restrict birthright citizenship, and at the latest action in the litigation over the White House ballroom! Paying subscribers also hear about: * Trump’s new effort to fire Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. * Long-suffering federal Judge Emmett Sullivan’s ongoing dissatisfaction with Todd Blanche’s handling of Epstein file redaction, including Blanche’s claim they can’t redact handwritten documents. * More legal trouble for the SPLC: the indictment of its former CFO and a failed motion to dismiss charges on the grounds of vindictive prosecution. * Trump’s ongoing effort to avoid disclosing financial information in his defamation case against the BBC, and * A new and unwise Afroman lawsuit against one of the cops who raided his home. You gotta quit while you’re ahead, Afroman. Ugrade your subscription now at www.serioustrouble.show.

  • August 6 · 24 min

    Who's to Judge Jeanine?

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: Jeanine Pirro would like everyone to know this embarrassing turn in the reflecting pool case is all Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s fault. We talk about her remarkable and remarkably detailed filing seeking to dismiss charges against David Hearn related to the pool, plus Anthony Fauci refusing to testify before a Senate hearing, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Those discussions are for all listeners, along with a look at what Todd Blanche’s letters to the Senate say and don’t say. Paying subscribers also hear about: * A lesson from Rep. Chuck Edwards, on how being creepy can constitute sexual harassment even if you never explicitly ask for sex. * Paramount’s litigation strategy choices. * Capital One’s arguments that it didn’t violate the president’s civil rights. * Judge Amit Mehta reluctantly vacating the case against Stewart Rhodes. * More problems with posting through it at DOJ. * And Kash Patel being deprived of a default judgment in a bullshit defamation case for the court’s lack of personal jurisdiction over the defaulted defendant. Upgrade your subscription now at serioustrouble.show.

  • July 30 · 20 min

    Comey's Got the Moves

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: Did you miss James Comey? Well, he’s back: he’s filed a flurry of motions attacking his prosecution for seashell-related offenses. We talk through all of them, plus motions from Olympian James Hearn, who also wants to look into possible grand-jury shenanigans leading up to his indictment for damaging the liner of the reflecting pool. All listeners get our discussions of those cases. For premium subscribers, there’s also: * Why the Trump administration has given up, for now, on its subpoenas to New York Times reporters. * The administration admitting it canceled energy project grants based on whether they were in states that voted for Trump. * Discovery trouble for Trump in his lawsuit against the BBC. * More Epstein files shenanigans. * Justin Baldoni — already not having a great couple of years — losing an anti-SLAPP lawsuit against his production company brought by The New York Times. * Chriayu Rana suing JP Morgan again, this time in federal court, and… * an exciting new business venture from Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl that is not (yet) the subject of a legal proceeding. Upgrade your subscription at serioustrouble.show

  • July 24 · 17 min

    Later, Tater

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show What a reversal of fortune for Andrew and Tristan Tate! One minute you’re the toast of (certain quarters of) MAGA; the next minute federal agents are arresting you, intending to extradite you to face rape charges in the UK. This week, we talk about how extradition works, and while Trump could intervene at any time to stop the extradition, his spokeswoman says he won’t. Also this week: Federal officials failed to preserve key evidence in the case of the alleged reflecting pool vandal — that is, the government threw away the liner. The Trump DOJ is once again fighting with local district judges over who should serve as interim US Attorney, and what’s new this time is that the fired interim appointee is suing to get his job back. Paying subscribers also get: * A fairly silly defamation lawsuit from Madison Square Garden against Wired, and discovery trouble for President Trump in his “$10 billion” lawsuit against the BBC. * Trump’s flailing effort to get the courts to order E. Jean Carroll to give him his $5.6 million back, and what he’d have to do in order to actually draw Rule 11 sanctions with this nonsense. * A new court we’d never heard of, because it had never been used before this month: the Alien Terrorist Removal Court. * A lawsuit that says Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is proselytizing to her employees in violation of the First Amendment — and, yes, the Administrative Procedure Act. * And a really weird AI misuse case from Brazilian labor courts. Upgrade your subscription at www.serioustrouble.show.

  • July 17 · 32 min

    Stretching the Limits of the Courts

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: Judge Kathleen Williams’ eviscerates President Trump’s attorneys for their sham lawsuit that was ultimately used as a pretext to create the “weaponization fund” settlement. Her order is bracing. But what are its practical effects? Is the settlement actually void, including the part that was supposed to protect Trump from future IRS audits? Also: E. Jean Carroll finally got the smaller of her two Trump judgments paid out. And we consider the very aggressive legal theory under which Mahmoud Khalil is suing the people who advocated for him to be deported, and the Trump administration’s effort to find out how The New York Times learned about security threats to the president’s new Qatari jet. That’s this week’s free episode. For paying subscribers, we look at the Trump administration’s effort to get information about how Boris Epshteyn, its own representative, communicated with law firms that settled in the face of adverse executive orders. Awkward. Plus: a defamation case that should worry New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, at least as regards one of its claims, and we consider a bizarre episode that has Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl back in the news, pursuing their very own big-boy federal felonies. It involves a rapper named “Boosie Badazz,” whom they charged a large fee in exchange for assistance getting a pardon, and whom they did not in fact get pardoned. Upgrade your subscription now at serioustrouble.show

  • July 9 · 20 min

    Humphrey's Executioner

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Humphrey’s Executor, which has been obviously dead for some time, is now officially overturned. Except! The Federal Reserve is special and unique and in a historical tradition. Also this week: John Bolton has pleaded guilty to mishandling national defense information and might even get jail time. In Florida, federal prosecutors mistakenly disclosed Jack Smith’s report on the documents investigation to Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, as part of their prosecution of Lineberger for stealing a copy of the report (which she labeled as a “bundt cake recipe,” oops). For paying subscribers: In Chicago, US Attorney Andrew Boutros is in more trouble. And in Minnesota, more subpoenas have been quashed as politically motivated. Alleged pipe bomber Brian Cole hasn’t been pardoned. Todd Blanche doesn’t want to release more Epstein documents. A prosecution relating to Trump’s reflecting pool is likely to face problems. Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” has been thrown out. And the ACLU of Maine wants the Secret Service to let the “Cats on a Couch” lady troll JD Vance in person. Upgrade your subscription now at serioustrouble.show.

  • June 26 · 46 min

    At Least the Fancy Lawyers Are Still Getting Rich

    David Lat joins Josh Barro for a conversation about the state of the legal industry under Donald Trump — how Big Law and the legal industry are faring after those executive orders and settlements — and they talk about how AI is changing the work of law firms, from staffing to billing rates. Plus: a look at the unusual breakdown in Thursday’s Supreme Court decision in the Monsanto case. We hope you enjoy the episode and the holiday, and Ken and Josh will be back with more after July 4. To find a transcript of this episode and sign up for updates from us, got to www.serioustrouble.show. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.serioustrouble.show/subscribe

  • June 19 · 28 min

    America's Next Top Tort

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago has dismissed another high-profile case — this one a COVID fraud case — that had been led by AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg. We discuss that and more developments in the Broadview Six case. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, federal prosecutors have obtained a conspiracy indictment against self-proclaimed “Antifa” activists who sought to interfere with ICE operations in the Twin Cities. And the slush fund drama continues even as Todd Blanche seeks approval to become for real-for real Attorney General. And soon-to-be-congressman Brad Lander is acquitted in his own misdemeanor case about ICE obstruction. Plus, for paying subscribers: * A look at Sam Bankman-Fried’s prison life, his aspirations to return to changing the world (something Judge Lewis Kaplan would really like him not to try to do again), and how Michael Avenatti thinks he’s too full of himself, * A loss in Trump’s fight to eliminate “woke” signage from national parks, * Tyra Banks’s stronger-than-expected defamation claim against Netflix, in which she is invoking the Earl Milford doctrine (with representation from Clare Locke!), and * A look at some guys who are arguably even dumber than Jacob Wohl.

  • June 12 · 39 min

    A Vouch Too Far

    This week: the grand jury transcripts from the Broadview Six case show an array of embarrassing misconduct by AUSAs from the office of the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. As Ken describes, these are things that AUSAs are very clearly taught not to do. And yet. Also this week: a couple of new flavors of AI hallucination trouble in the courts; Donald Trump’s legal team that’s suing the BBC for him isn’t doing such a good job; Matt Taibbi filed another dumb lawsuit and lost; Ken Paxton’s old lawyer endorses against him (unethical or just imprudent?); the Trump-Kennedy Center lost a lawsuit against a performer who canceled a scheduled performance; two ways being a mess can sometimes help you in court; and Judge Richard! Leon! says there’s no Trump slush fund to enjoin, for now! But he will keep watching! So don’t try any funny business! No paywall in this episode; it is available to all subscribers. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.serioustrouble.show/subscribe

  • June 5 · 24 min

    This Shrek Film Was Not In Theaters

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week’s Serious Trouble comes to you live from a perch overlooking the soon-to-be-built Trump National Championship Golf Links at East Potomac Park by Donald J. Trump. Or, maybe — as I looked over the federally administered national parkland along the Potomac River, I was looking at a suite of projects where the president’s “just do things” approach has faced intermittent trouble in court. For example: Trump’s name has been ordered down off the Kennedy Center, which is once again just the Kennedy Center. We discuss challenges to his “anti-weaponization fund," and the status of various lawsuits aimed at stopping the fund and the ripeness and standing challenges they face. And we look at the “you fucking dingus” doctrine — the extent to which Trump’s most cartoonish actions cause judges to hunt for ways to respond to them. That’s for free subscribers. Paying subscribers also get: * Alexis Wilkins vs. MS NOW, and the George Costanza theory of actual malice. * The junior lawyer leading the James Comey seashell prosecution steps down (as lawyers flee the government more broadly) while a judge in another case rules that “8647” is not a true threat. * Trump really doesn’t want to pay tariff refunds, and Ilya Somin argues the tariff cases show how CASA has created a mess. * A CIA official gets indicted for lying on his resume, but really for stealing tens of millions of dollars worth of gold that he was somehow able to order to his office. * George Santos appears to be under investigation for insider trading in a prediction market about George Santos. * A gadfly blogger in Ohio is arrested for texting an image to a state senator that apparently depicts Shrek masturbating. Is that a crime?

  • May 29 · 22 min

    Court Officers Behaving Badly

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The ‘Broadview Six’ case was one of the Trump administration’s prominent prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters. Federal prosecutors in Chicago brought felony charges to fanfare, then curiously dropped them, keeping only misdemeanor counts. Now we know why: they engaged in egregious misconduct to obtain the felony indictments, which they then sought to conceal from the judge, who is not amused. For all subscribers, we discuss that and US Attorney Andrew Boutros, who issued a weird memo promising reform, and the news that his office is apparently running a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, examining whether she lied in a deposition hundreds of miles from Chicago. For paying subscribers (upgrade your subscription now at serioustrouble.show) this week, there’s also: * Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s big and unusual win on vindictive prosecution, which is already inspiring the Southern Poverty Law Center. * A sordid case involving an Eleventh Circuit judge whose sofa cushion required forensic testing after clerks asserted she was noisily carrying on an affair in chambers. * A free speech win for West Point faculty. * An interesting new insider trading case involving Polymarket. * A probably-too-clever motion attacking the “anti-weaponization fund,” and * More bad news for ex-JP Morgan banker Chirayu Rana.

  • May 22 · 30 min

    The No-Judgment Fund

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Donald Trump has announced a new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to be doled out as he sees fit to “victims” of the “weaponization” of the Justice Department. It's financed from the Judgment Fund, a strange legal creature — it’s a permanent, unlimited appropriation the federal government can use to pay judgments and settlements. But like… doesn’t that have to be for real lawsuits with plausible claims that could win in court? Also: an ex-AUSA has been criminally charged for sending herself electronic copies of confidential reports about the findings from Jack Smith’s documents investigation into the president. She gave the files names like “bundt cake recipe." That’s for free subscribers. Paying subscribers get our discussions about: * An ICE agent facing state criminal charges in Minnesota. * Elon Musk losing in his civil trial against Sam Altman, and the complex set of circumstances that led the presiding judge to seek an advisory verdict from the jury before disposing of the case herself. * A counterclaim from Lorna Hajdini in the JP Morgan saga. * Chud the Builder, unfortunately (in part because of his whiny lawyer). * Trouble for timeshare billionaire Stephen Cloobeck — Eric Swalwell’s onetime benefactor — and Cloobeck’s ex-Penthouse Pet fiancée, Adva Lavie, a.k.a. “Mia Ventura.” * Rep. Max Miller, who apparently has the worst luck with women, is suing his ex-wife for defamation, saying she’s making up lies about him being abusive, just like his ex-girlfriend before her, whom he also sued for defamation when she called him abusive. * And Clavicular pleads no-contest to shooting a dead alligator, is sentenced to non-livestreamed community service — and gets brutally mogged by Judge Marcus Bach-Armas, a total chad who used to be in-house counsel for the Miami Dolphins.

  • May 15 · 17 min

    'Advice of Counsel' Does Not Apply to Advice from Licensed Airboat Captains

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The lurid JP Morgan sex case has gotten more interesting: apparently, the bank offered a $1 million settlement to the banker who wanted an eight-figure settlement related to the lurid sex-harassment allegations he has made against a senior colleague. Something is weird here. Also this week: The Justice Department wants to stand in as the defendant in the case where E. Jean Carroll won a large judgment for comments Donald Trump made about her during his first presidential term, which would defeat her claim, since the government cannot be liable for defamation, the DOJ is also suing the DC Bar to stop professional discipline for Jeffrey ‘Oil Spill’ Clark, and no, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro does not need to recuse herself from Cole Allen’s case merely because she was present at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. That’s for all listeners this week. Upgrade to hear about much more: * Another Trump tariff effort gets struck down because the Court of International Trade decided to actually form a view on what constitutes a balance-of-payments crisis. * ABC fighting back against the Federal Communications Commission, urged on by the commission’s lone Democratic member (and Ken explains why they’re even bothering to fight at the agency level before going to court.) * The fight over the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, or “more aesthetic standing bullshit,” as Ken’s notes describe it. * Richard Murdaugh’s remarkable win in court (for now). * A silly lawsuit against Matt Damon, and * A misdo charge for Clav, who says he was merely following the guidance of a licensed airboat captain when he shot a (possibly already dead) alligator.

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