Ep 203 — The Fifth Circuit Goes Full Korematsu

Docket Alerts:

In Jeffrey Epstein news: Ghislaine Maxwell showed up for congressional testimony, but says she's taking the Fifth unless and until she gets a pardon. Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed to testify, averting a vote to refer them to DOJ for contempt of Congress. Paul Weiss managing partner Brad Karp stepped down after his emails to the noted pedophile were published.

Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty, but will face trial this summer.

Main Show:

The Trump administration is trying to magic away Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction with an assist from SCOTUS. It's called a GVR, and it's filthy.

The DOJ sued in state court to get Fulton County's 2020 ballots. They sued in federal court. And then they got a criminal warrant and just took them. Now Georgia election officials are suing to get their ballots back.

What is going on with that Tulsi Gabbard whistleblower report?

The Fifth Circuit greenlights ICE's batcrap insane legal theory that the government must hold immigrants in detention indefinitely without a hearing. Should the challengers petition for en banc review, or go straight to SCOTUS?

And for subscribers, we'll break down FCC Chair Brendan Carr's threat to investigate the ladies at The View for daring to interview Texas Senate candidate James Talarico — a known Democrat!

Bannon Rule 48(a) Motion to Dismiss

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.237437/gov.uscourts.dcd.237437.207.0.pdf

Bannon Cert Petition

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-453/395803/20260209141144273_25-453_Bannon_cert_resp_file.pdf

US v. Alexander [DOJ civil suit to see Fulton County ballots]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72028229/united-states-v-alexander/

Pitts v. US [Fulton County suit to recover ballots]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72247417/pitts-v-united-states/

NSA detected foreign intelligence phone call about a person close to Trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower

Whistle-Blower Report Involved Intelligence About a Trump Contact

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/politics/whistle-blower-gabbard-trump.html

Buenrostro Mendez v. Bondi

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71870107/buenrostro-mendez-v-bondi/

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