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Ken and Josh discuss legal issues surrounding Sam Bankman-Fried's pro se filings and recent court rulings affecting the Pentagon's press policies.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss Judge Lewis Kaplan losing some patience with Sam Bankman-Fried, and not just because Bankman-Fried’s mom tried to communicate with him ex parte . SBF has been making purportedly pro se filings, at least one of which appears to have been dictated to and FedExed by his mother , and he simultaneously has an appeal proceeding in the appeals court with real lawyers. Kaplan says he has to choose — are you pro se or not? And he wants to know — have any lawyers besides mom been helping with these filings he’s supposedly personally responsible for ? Meanwhile, the “Department of War” has been having a rough time in court. The Pentagon’s anti-reporting press policy has been thrown out as a First Amendment violation , so now the Pentagon says no reporters at all can work out of the Pentagon press room . Meanwhile, Anthropic won a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon’s declaration that the company is a “Supply Chain Risk.” (The Anthropic order came down after we taped — we’ll have a further update on next week’s show.) That’s for all subscribers. Paying subscribers…
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Hosts: Ken White, Josh Barro
Topics covered
- legal proceedings
- First Amendment
- pro se filings
- Pentagon press policy
- Department of Justice
- Sam Bankman-Fried
Keywords
- Sam Bankman-Fried
- pro se
- Pentagon
- First Amendment
- Department of Justice
- Jay Powell
- Anthropic
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Organizations: Department of War, Pentagon, Anthropic, Federal Reserve
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