Category: News Feeds

Quick
thing
about
punishing
law
professors
—
they
tend
to
be
pretty
read
up
on
how
the
law
works.
After
LSU
decided
to
withdraw
a
tenured
professor
over
undisclosed
“political
comments,”
there
was
an
immediate
push
back
for
the
sake
of
campus
free
speech.
In
what
has
to
be
a
huge
“I
told
you
so”
moment
for
Professor
Ken
Levy,
a
judge
recently
ordered
LSU
to
put
him
back
in
his
classroom.

Lailluminator
has
coverage:

A
state
judge
has
ordered
LSU
to
allow
its
law
professor
Ken
Levy
to
return
to
teaching
duties.
The
university
had
removed
Levy
from
the
classroom
pending
an
investigation
into
alleged
criticism
of
Gov.
Jeff
Landry.

Levy,
a
tenured
professor
of
constitutional
and
criminal
law,
sued
the
university
earlier
this
week,
saying
it
violated
his
First
Amendment
rights
and
its
own
policies
regarding
tenured
faculty. 

Judge
Don
Johnson
of
the
19th
Judicial
District
granted
Levy’s
request
for
a
temporary
restraining
order
that
would
allow
him
to
return
to
the
classroom
for
at
least
the
next
week.
Johnson
set
a
hearing
for
an
injunction
on
Feb.
10. 

Part
of
what
made
the
university’s
decision
to
remove
Levy
from
teaching
was
how
hush
everything
was
on
what
he
said.
As
it
turns
out,
he
only
threw
a
couple
of
eff
yous
at
the
governor.
The
offhand
comments
were
a
response
to
Jeff
Landy
calling
for
an
LSU
professor
to
be
punished
for
criticizing
Herr
Trump.
Levy
warned
his
student
not
to
record
him
saying
anything
in
case
the
witch
hunt
would
come
for
him.
While
it
did,
he
thankfully
has
a
judge
with
common
sense
on
his
side.

Judge
Orders
LSU
To
Reinstate
Law
Professor
Sidelined
For
Political
Comments
[Lailluminator]

---

Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s.
 He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
cannot
swim, a
published
author
on
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected] and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.

Does
Chief
Justice
Roberts’s
jurisdiction
extend
to
the
UK?
Asking
for
the
sitting
president,
who
appears
to
think
SCOTUS’s
presidential
crimes
permission
slip
is
good
worldwide.

A
year
ago,
Judge
Karen
Steyn

flushed
President
Trump’s

libel
suit
against
former
MI6
agent
Chris
Steele
and
his
company
Orbis
Business
Intelligence
over
the
“Pee
Dossier.”

“In
reality,
the
Claimant
is
seeking
court
findings
to
vindicate
his
reputation
in
circumstances
where
has
not
been
able
to
formulate
any
viable
remedy
which
he
would
have
a
real
prospect
of
obtaining,
or
which
would
itself
be
of
any
utility;
and
having
chosen
to
allow
many
years
to
elapse
–
without
any
attempt
to
vindicate
his
reputation
in
this
jurisdiction
–
since
he
was
first
made
aware
of
the
Dossier
(including
the
Memoranda)
on
6
January
2017,
and
since
he
first
knew
the
identity
of
the
author
on
11
January
2017,”
she

wrote.

And
because
the
UK
litigation
is
“loser
pay,”
she
“concluded
that
the
Defendant
should
have
summary
judgment
in
respect
of
his
claim
for
compensation/damages
and
a
compliance
order,
and
consequently
on
the
claim
as
a
whole.”
Which
meant
that
Trump
was
on
the
hook
for
£290,000
in
legal
fees
to
Steele
and
Orbis.

Unsurprisingly,
Trump
has
refused
to
pay.
But
he
did
come
up
with
a
somewhat
surprising
justification.

According
to

The
Guardian,
Orbis’s
counsel
Mark
Friston
told
the
court
that
Trump
was
asserting
“sovereign
immunity”
and
claiming
that
any
collection
action
would
be
“completely
hopeless.”

This
would
be
a
bizarre
statement
in
an
American
court
—
even
with

this
Supreme
Court,
a
sitting
president
is
liable
to
a
new
civil
claim,
as
well
as
to
a
suit
to
enforce
a
judgment
entered
before
he
returned
to
office.
(Just
ask
E.
Jean
Carroll.)
But
perhaps
Trump’s
assertion
of
lèse-majesté
is
less
a
statement
of
law
than
a
challenge.
He
thinks
he’s
a
sovereign,
and

what
is
some
English
judge
gonna
do
about
it,
really?

This
has,
however,
left
his
lawyers
in
a
bit
of
a
sticky
wicket.

“It’s
difficult
to
get
instructions
when
your
client
is
president
of
the
free
world
and
trying
to
turn
everything
upside
down,”
his
attorney
Jacqueline
Perry
told
Judge
Jason
Rowley.
“This
isn’t
high
in
his
area
of
importance.”

She
protested
that
her
client
was
“an
innocent
party
in
this,”
sadly
led
astray
by
his
former
counsel,
who
bollixed
the
case
and
made
a
dog’s
breakfast
of
it.
And
so,
she
hoped
that
the
court
would
withhold
execution
of
the
judgment
until
after
the
malpractice
claim
is
sorted,
at
which
point
Trump
would
be
prepared
to
enter
into
negotiations
over
Orbis’s
fee.

Sadly,

no.

Judge
Rowley
informed
Perry
that,
should
her
client
fail
to
remit
the
£290,000
forthwith,
he’d
forfeit
the
right
to
contest
the
fees
at
all.

No
doubt
Chief
Justice
Roberts
and
his
fellow
conservative
are
inking
up
their
quills
to
tell
those
wig-headed
limeys
where
to
stick
it.

Trump
has
refused
to
pay
£290,000
in
legal
fees
after
case
dismissed
in
UK,
court
told
[The
Guardian]

---

Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.

It
took
a
few
days,
but
Fox
Rothschild
has
now
barred
its
attorneys
from
using
the
fast,
cheap,
field-disrupting,
and
inevitably
compromised
AI
tool.

While
DeepSeek
has
taken
the
world
by
storm,
promising
the
same
(or
better?)
results
than
its
Western
competitors
who
are
all
promising
the
moon…
as
long
as
everyone
gives
them
exponential
resources
to
make
linear
gains.

WHAT
A
GREAT
DEAL!

So
everyone
is
abuzz
with
the
prospect
of
an
AI
model
that
won’t
break
the
bank.
That
said,
not
every

law
firm
is
excited.
As

Bloomberg
reports:

Fox
Rothschild’s
900-plus
attorneys
use
AI
tools
and, like
many
other
firms,
it
doesn’t
generally
bar
its
lawyers
from
using
ChatGPT,
although
it
imposes
restrictions
on
the
use
of
AI
with
client
data,
Mark
G.
McCreary,
the
firm’s
chief
artificial
intelligence
and
information
security
officer,
said.
But
DeepSeek,
launched
by
a
Chinese
investor,
poses
unique
security
challenges.

“It’s
one
thing
to
have
a
risk
that
somebody
makes
a
mistake
with
ChatGPT,”
McCreary
said.
“It’s
a
completely
different
risk
for
someone
to
make
a
mistake
with
China.”

Is
it
though?
Obviously
applications
with
close
ties
to
the
Chinese
government
raise
key
concerns.
It’s
why
the
country
banned
TikTok
before
Trump
decided
he
had
the
unilateral
power
to
unban
TikTok
over
congressional
objection.
But
are
firms

really
comfortable
with
ChatGPT?

At
some
point
any
data
that
worms
its
way
into
ChatGPT
or
Claude
or
any
other
consumer-facing
AI
is
going
to
be
accessible
to
bad
actors.
Whether
its
a
hacking
job
or
a
competitor
all
of
these
products
come
with
risks.
It’s
why
so
much
time
and
energy
is
going
into
the
legal-specific
offerings
from
trusted
vendors
who
understand
the
industry
and
its
ethical
and
security
risks.

There’s
no
reason
for
anyone
to
be
feeding
client
information
into
consumer
AI
tools.
Period.

If
your
attorneys
are
using
consumer
AI
then
you
need
to
start
investing
in
professional-grade
legal
solutions
so
they,
you
know,
stop
doing
that.

---

Joe
Patrice is
a
senior
editor
at
Above
the
Law
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
Feel
free
to email
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments.
Follow
him
on Twitter or

Bluesky
if
you’re
interested
in
law,
politics,
and
a
healthy
dose
of
college
sports
news.
Joe
also
serves
as
a

Managing
Director
at
RPN
Executive
Search.

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email

her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter

@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon

@[email protected].

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email

her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter

@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon

@[email protected].

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email

her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter

@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon

@[email protected].

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email

her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter

@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon

@[email protected].

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email

her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter

@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon

@[email protected].

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

---

Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of

The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of

Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
AtL
tipsters
are
the
best,
so
please
connect
with
her.
Feel
free
to
email

her
with
any
tips,
questions,
or
comments
and
follow
her
on
Twitter

@Kathryn1 or
Mastodon

@[email protected].

There’s
a
lot
that’s
unsettling
about
Donald
Trump’s
nominee
for
FBI
director,
Kash
Patel.
The
Pace
University
School
of
Law
grad
has
been
a
proponent
of
“Deep
State”

conspiracy
theories
and
is
rumored
to
have
an
enemies
list
(he

denies
his
list
of
“corrupt
actors”
from
the
“deep
state”
is
an
enemies
list
as
such).
He’s
proposed

deep
shakeups
at
the
FBI,
which
House
Democrats

say
could
“jeopardize
our
national
security,
leaving
the
FBI
with
no
experienced
senior
leadership
and
a
partisan
Trump
loyalist
heading
up
the
Bureau’s
response
to
increasing
security
threats
from
Russia,
China,
and
other
authoritarian
adversaries.”

He

produced
a
version
of
the
“The
Star-Spangled
Banner”
that
featured
the
J6
Prison
Choir.
Patel

threatened
to
go
after
the
media,
saying,
“We’re
going
to
come
after
the
people
in
the
media
who
lied
about
American
citizens
who
helped
Joe
Biden
rig
presidential
elections.
We’re
going
to
come
after
you,
whether
it’s
criminally
or
civilly.
We’ll
figure
that
out.
But
yeah,
we’re
putting
you
all
on
notice.”

While
horrifying,
those
escapades
aren’t
quite
as
bizarre
as
the
trio
of
children’s
books
in
the

Plot
Against
the
King
series
published
by
Christian
publisher Brave
Books.
As

reported
by
Rebecca
Onion
at
Slate:

One
book
fictionalizes
Russiagate
and
the
Steele
dossier,
the
second
does
the
same
with
the
2020
election,
and
the
third
covers
the
Department
of
Justice’s
lawsuits
against
Donald
Trump.
In
each,
the
wizard
Kash—all-knowing,
all-discerning,
bearing
the
sobriquet
the
“Distinguished
Discoverer”—does
battle
against
the
enemies
of
the
“merchant
Donald,”
who
becomes
“King
Donald”
after
the
people
of
the
kingdom
vote
for
him
on
“Choosing
Day.”

These
books
read
like
someone
fed
storylines
from
the
Trump
era
into
an
A.I.
trained
on
MAGA
posts
on
social
media
and
gave
it
the
command:
“Tell
this
as
a
medieval
story
in
a
slightly
funny
way.”
Democrat
Adam
Schiff
plays
a
part
in
books
one
and
three,
first
as
“the
shifty
knight,”
then
a
“shifty
jester,”
and
then
just
as
“Shifty.”
The
media
are
“heralds”
who
hate
King
Donald
and
accept
any
lie
about
him
that
Shifty
tells.
Hillary
Clinton
is
“Hillary
Queenton,”
Biden
is
“Baron
Von
Biden,”
Kamala
Harris
is
“Comma-la-la-la,”
and
Mark
Zuckerberg
—
who
gets
a
cameo
thanks
to
the Trumpworld
idea that
he
participated
in
the
2020
election
fraud
—
is
“Mischievous
Metamark.”
The
DOJ
is
a
“Dragon
of
Jalapeños,”
who
gets
small
as
a
dog
before
eating
hot
peppers,
then
bigger
when
he’s
fed
some,
until
he
breathes
fire.

Perhaps
we
should
just
appreciate
Patel’s
honesty
in
declaring
Donald
Trump’s
desire
to
be
King
—

22nd
Amendment
be
damned.

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