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The episode discusses legal challenges surrounding Donald Trump's projects and actions, including the anti-weaponization fund and various lawsuits.

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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Josh Barro, Ken White

Topics covered

• Trump National Championship Golf Links
• legal challenges
• anti-weaponization fund
• judicial responses
• tariff refunds
• CIA indictment

Keywords

• Trump
• legal challenges
• Kennedy Center
• tariff refunds
• CIA indictment
• judicial responses
• anti-weaponization fund

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kennedy Center, CIA, MS NOW, CASA

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