Ep 220 — Pray For the PRA
· 57 min · Episode 220
Episode Ep 220 — Pray For the PRA
The Fifth Circuit is crossing out laws just for sport. This time it's a 140-year-old ban on making homebrew hooch, because YOLO.
Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over an article describing his creepy birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein was dismissed. But … that dismissal was without prejudice, so he can take another swing at it. The trollsuit against the BBC is still limping along.
Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Education Josh Kleinfeld makes an interesting pitch to George Mason's Antonin Scalia Law School, which is currently under investigation by … the Department of Education.
And Trump's ballroom blitz takes a tumble in court.
MAIN SHOW:
Trump discovers one weird trick to make the Presidential Records Act disappear. All he has to do is order the Office of Legal Counsel to come up with a memo saying it's unconstitutional and — hey, presto! — he can steal or shred or delete any document he likes.
SUBSCRIBER BONUS:
Are we the pirates now?
Trump v. Murdoch
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch
Trump v. BBC
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72040010/trump-v-british-broadcasting-corporation
Fifth Circuit Home Distillers Ruling
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-10760-CV0.pdf
Trump Admin Lawyer Applies To Be Law School Dean, Suggests It Might Help Investigations Go Away
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/04/trump-admin-lawyer-applies-to-be-law-school-dean-suggests-it-might-help-investigations-go-away/
Ballroom Blitz Blocked
https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ballroom-blitz-blocked
National Trust for Historic Preservation v. National Park Service
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73127510/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-v-nps
April 1, 2026 OLC Memorandum on the Presidential Records Act
https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1434131/dl
Judicial Watch v. NARA ("Socks Case"), 845 F.Supp.2d 288 (DC Cir. 2012)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15818036517066124081
Trump v. Mazars, 591 US 848 (2020)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2096461232780826445
Nixon v. Administrator of General Svcs. et al., 433 US 425 (1977)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11884364268460571560
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Links in the notes 13
- https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-10760-CV0.pdf
- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.693830/gov.uscourts.flsd.693830.59.0_3.pdf
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72040010/trump-v-british-broadcasting-corporation/?order_by=desc
- https://abovethelaw.com/2026/04/trump-admin-lawyer-applies-to-be-law-school-dean-suggests-it-might-help-investigations-go-away/
- https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/ballroom-blitz-blocked
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70843413/trump-v-murdoch
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72040010/trump-v-british-broadcasting-corporation
- https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73127510/national-trust-for-historic-preservation-v-nps/
- https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1434131/dl
- https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15818036517066124081
- https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2096461232780826445
- https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11884364268460571560
- https://www.lawandchaospod.com/
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