May 30, 2026

Administrative State

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After a yearslong legal battle, the Supreme Court vindicated a Colorado Christian baker hounded by a “Civil Rights Commission” for the sin of refusing to craft a custom cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding. A woman by the name of Kristen Clarke found that ruling “devastating.”

Clarke, who would go on to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Joe Biden, arguably grew to embody the weaponization of civil rights law against conservatives. Yet on Wednesday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hailed Clarke as a “civil rights giant” in announcing her new position as NAACP general counsel.

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The following is the prepared testimony of The Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland for a March 24 hearing titled “Arctic Frost: A Modern Watergatebefore the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.

Chairman Cruz, Ranking Member Whitehouse, and Members of the Subcommittee,

Thank you for the opportunity to testify concerning the grave constitutional violations inflicted as part of the Arctic Frost investigation.

After the 2020 election, an anti-Trump FBI agent named Tim Thibault attempted to use the justice department to destroy the President. Thibault’s efforts led to the launch of Arctic Frost. Soon after, Merrick Garland tapped Jack Smith, a “hyper-aggressive prosecutor,” known to “overstretch the meaning and intent of the law,” to serve as Special Counsel.

Smith proved himself true to form, indicting Trump for allegedly violating a statute enacted in the aftermath of Enron, based in part on a theory of criminal liability the Supreme Court would later hold invalid. The Supreme Court would later halt Smith’s efforts to prosecute Trump for actions that fell within the President’s official duties.

Walid Phares faced a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018 under a scrutinizing FBI microscope empowered by a deceived FISA court. The prosecutors withheld evidence that would have exonerated Phares and rendered the FBI’s search warrant requests invalid. The prosecutors were attorneys of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating the Russian Collusion Hoax.

An investigation into why this evidence was withheld was never included in the team’s final report, even though it is directly tied to it. This deception mimics the very deception that triggered the Russian Collusion Hoax in the first place, manipulating and withholding evidence to FISA court judges to get the results the prosecutors wanted, the power to spy on domestic political opposition.

Newly released transcripts of a testimony from an unnamed FBI agent reveals his attempts to include the anomaly of the Phares case in the report was rejected by a senior member of Mueller’s team, Kevin Clinesmith. After the agent attempted to include not just the Phares FISA anomaly, but others, Clinesmith told him, “We can’t send this to DOJ.”

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FBI Misled Court to Spy on Second Trump Campaign Adviser – American Greatness

Carter Page wasn’t the only adviser from Trump’s first campaign wiretapped by the FBI. Walid Phares was electronically monitored for a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington-based FBI agent who was assigned to investigate him as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion probe.

As in Page’s case, the bureau withheld evidence exonerating Phares from the court to secure surveillance authorization, according to newly declassified FBI documents.

“I had no idea any of this was happening,” Phares told RealClearInvestigations in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. “This is shocking because they told my lawyer that I was only a ‘witness’ and that they just needed some information.”

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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s targeting of Kash Patel and numerous congressional Republicans as part of his lawfare against Donald Trump was worse than originally thought, new records show.

Released Tuesday by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the new documents demonstrate that Smith and his team’s efforts to acquire Patel’s phone records during his time as a private citizen were far more extensive than previously reported. The bid to acquire such information came as part of Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation, which ultimately became his elector lawfare against Trump.

Now-FBI Director Patel originally told Reuters last month that the Biden FBI had subpoenaed his phone records, as well as those of then-Trump confidant and now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The subpoenas covered phone calls from 2022 and 2023, with Patel claiming that Smith’s collection of Wiles’ phone records “extended into [her] time as Trump’s co-campaign manager, though he did not say when exactly the record collection began or ended,” according to the outlet.

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Just days after the Trump Justice Department proposed a rule to combat the left’s use of “barfare” to destroy conservative lawyers, the legal disciplinary authority in the Department’s own backyard may have vindicated its effort by launching an attack on U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin.

On March 6, the Washington, D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed charges and initiated disciplinary proceedings against the MAGA stalwart in a case that could drag on for months or longer, waste precious taxpayer resources, and result in sanctions up to and including disbarment.

Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and more. In the wake of a slate of questionable rulings, SCOTUS Chief Judge John Roberts has encouraged what we consider insurrectionist rulings (with some exceptions) by Progmerican activist judges while shaming any critique of these many grossly egregious rulings.

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Judge reinstates 1,000 Voice of America employees, deems wind-down illegal – The Washington Post

  1. Judge reinstates 1,000 Voice of America employees, deems wind-down illegal  The Washington Post
  2. Judge Orders Voice of America to Restart All News Operations  The New York Times
  3. Judge orders Trump administration to restore Voice of America and bring back hundreds of staff  CBS News
  4. Judge orders Voice of America to reinstate 1,000 employees cut under Kari Lake  NBC News
  5. Judge orders 1,000 Voice of America staffers back to work in rebuke to Kari Lake  NPR

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is back in the news after publicly commenting on “hostility” toward federal judges.

The remarks came on Tuesday when the chief justice was interviewed by Senior District Judge Lee Rosenthal at a Rice University event. During her line of questioning, Rosenthal noted Roberts’ past acknowledgement that public criticism “comes with the territory” of being a judge. She then asked him how he handles such critiques of the Supreme Court or his judicial opinions.

The Bush 43 appointee began his answer by recognizing that judges aren’t “flawless” and that criticisms of their work “can very much be healthy.” What’s garnering attention is the next part in which he said that “the problem” that occasionally arises is when “the criticism … move[s] from a focus on legal analysis to personalities.”

“You see, from all over … [there’s] not just any one political perspective on it, that it’s more directed in a personal way, and that, frankly, can be actually quite dangerous,” Roberts said. “Judges around the country work very hard to get it right, and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism. But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop.”

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Fam, is it good when a federal judge invents an entirely new rule just for you? Not really!

James Boasberg, the chief judge of the federal district courts in Washington, has ordered that judges in his district be notified every time a grand jury declines to indict—or no-bill—a case brought by the laughably bad U.S. Attorney for Washington Jeanine Pirro.

Fam, is it good when your office has had more no-bills in one year than most offices get … ever? Nope!

Boasberg’s rule applies whenever Pirro’s office tries to indict someone via grand jury and fails, so her office has to tell the magistrate judge on duty—even if she ultimately decides not to charge the defendant at all.

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On Monday, the Supreme Court added two significant immigration cases to its docket. The cases are styled Noem v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, and both involve the issue of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The first comes out of the Southern District of New York and involves TPS for Syrians; the second comes from the D.C. District and involves Haitians.

Some background:

Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990. The program gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to designate a country’s citizens as eligible to remain in the U.S. and work if they cannot return to their own country because of a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other “extraordinary and temporary” conditions there.

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Four in Ten New UK Houses to Go to Migrants by 2030: Report

Hotter temperatures may push millions toward a more sedentary lifestyle, study finds

Rubio orders US diplomats to push countries to act against Iran amid ‘risk of attack’

Judge temporarily blocks RFK Jr.’s efforts to reshape childhood vaccine policy

Grief author Kouri Richins found guilty of murdering her husband

Tech industry rallies behind Anthropic in Pentagon fight

Judge blocks vaccine changes recommended by RFK Jr.’s advisers

Schumer: SAVE America Act ‘Despicable,’ Trump Wants to ‘Cheat’ in Midterms

Judge Blocks RFK Jr., CDC’s Changes of Child Vaccine Recommendations

Comey Recalls Singing Beyonce Song During 2016 FBI ‘Sandcastles’ Briefing

Trump Warns that Iran Is Using AI to Create ‘Disinformation Weapons’

Minnesota bill would ban warrants allowing police to collect data from devices near a crime scene

Cuba’s entire electrical grid collapses, leaving whole island without power

Trump lawyer in Jack Smith case draws conservative backing after DOJ praise rattles ‘elite’ legal conference

Bessent pushes back on CNBC reporter over Trump’s Russian oil strategy

Afghanistan claims late night Pakistani strike on hospital killed 400

US voters sharply focused on prices as 2026 midterms approach

Congress zeroes in on pilots from ‘foreign adversary’ nations training in U.S.

DoD IG report finds Army general left classified map on train, overindulged in alcohol

Britain had meltdown when China hacked voter files, but U.S. intel kept it secret in America

Former Air Force missile officer claims UFOs disabled nuclear arsenal at Montana base during Cold War

Cops bust anti-Semitic thugs who attacked Jewish diners at posh restaurant

California Dems push to make two Muslim holy days state holidays

Wiles announces cancer diagnosis, plans to stay in job

Jillian Michaels Faces Off With 4 Body Positivity Activists Who Object To Her Obesity Claim

Sen. Mike Lee Says No Rule Change Needed To Pass SAVE Act

Iranian Women’s Soccer Player Faces Brutal Ultimatum After Defying Regime

Iranian Missiles Threaten To Damage Jerusalem’s Holiest Sites As Debris Rains Down

And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!


from amgreatness.com

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Fox News Digital revealed other Republicans former special counsel Jack Smith targeted during his investigation into President Donald Trump.

We already know that Smith tracked and targeted over 400 Republicans, including senators.

The new emails exposed a spiderweb containing members of the House and Senate who had contact with the main people in Smith’s investigation, such as Trump, Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani:

New names within the emails obtained by Fox News Digital include Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and former Rep. Lee Zeldin, who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency.

“I’d like to seek [the Public Integrity Section’s] concurrence to get phone tolls for several MOCs who had contact with pertinent parties in our investigation,” wrote DOJ lawyer Timothy Duree. “I’ll keep the timeframe tight—probably October 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021.”

Duree produced 16 names and said he wanted to discuss whether to “subpoena these all at once.” The list included Reps. Babin and Biggs and now former Reps. Mo Brooks, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Zeldin and Jody Hice. The list also included Gohmert’s chief of staff Connie Hair, and seven senators whose names were previously revealed through public disclosures, such as Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

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In 2020, trans-identifying man Haven Wilvich filed a complaint against the spa for denying him service with the Washington Human Rights Commission. Olympus Spa, which is owned by conservative Christians, settled in 2021 with the WHRC by promising to change its policies forbidding trans-identifying men from using their facility, but also stated that the settlement was forced and violated their freedom of association, freedom of speech, and exercise of religion under the First Amendment.

The following year, Olympus brought a constitutional challenge, which was dismissed in 2023 by a federal judge who claimed that because the state’s “anti-discrimination” law applies to all businesses, the law does not specifically violate the rights of the owners of Olympus. In May, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the ruling 2-1. Last week, the full court voted not to review that decision. Enter Judge Lawrence Van Dyke, who decided to make the rare move of using blunt, crude language to illustrate his contempt for the decision.

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A federal appeals court has lifted a lower court order blocking a key immigration policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, allowing officials to resume deporting illegal aliens to countries other than their own.

In a 2–1 decision, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the administration’s request to pause a prior ruling that had declared the policy unlawful.

The decision allows the policy to remain in effect while the case moves forward on appeal.

U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor has ruled the Department of Education cannot receive student admission data from colleges and universities. The Department was seeking information on race, gender, standardized test scores, and GPAs of applicants. The data would be collected and reviewed in a way that does not expose student IDs.

The data is needed to determine whether colleges and universities are complying with a SCOTUS order ending affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling will be appealed. The lawsuit was initiated by 17 Progmerican states. We believe they are seeking to protect their Progmerican institutions from an American plumb line.

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Court pauses ‘unprecedented’ federal demand for 7 years of college admissions data – thecollegefix.com

A judge has sided — for now — with the attorneys general for 17 states who recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education’s demand for reams of student admissions data.

U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor on Friday granted a temporary restraining order through March 25 blocking the department from collecting the data as he reviews the lawsuit.

Las Vegas metro police are putting the constitution and the safety of the people above a Progmerican local judge, Eric Goodman, who has ordered a violent career criminal be released. The criminal, Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, has been convicted of multiple violent crimes, including involuntary manslaughter.

Police arrested the criminal on a warrant for grand larceny of a motor vehicle. The Judge chose to set a bail of $25,000 and let Sanchez-Lopez go with an ankle bracelet monitor. The police refused to follow the order, appealing instead to the court through a petition to not release the defendant.

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Las Vegas Cops Refuse to Release Violent Repeat Offender, Defying Judge’s Order – American Greatness

Las Vegas Metro police are refusing to release a violent repeat offender, in defiance of a local judge’s order.

The career criminal, 36-year-old Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, has been arrested 35 times, with a rap sheet that includes involuntary manslaughter, drugs and car theft, according to the New York Post.

The legal standoff began in January, when police arrested Sanchez-Lopez on a warrant for grand larceny of a motor vehicle.

Justice Eric Goodman set Sanchez-Lopez’s bail at $25,000 and ordered his release with an ankle monitor once he posted bond.

The program allows defendants to leave jail and wear an ankle bracelet. Various levels of the program require different levels of confinement. Goodman ordered Sanchez-Lopez to high-level electronic monitoring, which Dickerson described as house arrest. About 450 defendants are in the program at a time.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has helped federal agencies modify or cancel $2 billion worth of government contracts in the last 4 weeks alone, producing an overall savings of $757 million for the American taxpayer. DOGE’s similar efforts in the four weeks prior affected 273 government contracts, which led to a total savings of $1.4. This means DOGE is reporting a savings of over $2 billion in the last two months of work alone.

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DOGE Cuts $2 Billion in Wasteful Contracts from Federal Agencies – slaynews.com

Federal agencies have eliminated or scaled back 95 government contracts worth up to $2 billion over the past four weeks, saving an estimated $757 million, according to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The cuts are part of a broader effort launched during President Donald Trump’s second term to reduce federal spending and eliminate what officials describe as wasteful programs.

Millions in Contracts Scrapped Across Agencies

Among the contracts terminated:

• A $75,400 State Department deal for “media monitoring services”

• A $45.6 million Office of Personnel Management contract for “talent acquisition support”

• A $98.5 million Department of Education research contract tracking high school students

• A $76.4 million Education Department study on college financing and outcomes

The latest reductions follow an earlier wave of cuts.

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Law-abiding citizens should not have to live this way. The public must have recourse when lunatic judges release career criminals back into the community.

In the meantime, at least some Nevada residents know that they can rely on their police to fight judicial tyranny.

According to KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department last week filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court rather than comply with an order from Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Eric Goodman, son of former Las Vegas Democratic Mayor Oscar Goodman, to release a dangerous career criminal under the department’s electronic monitoring program.

In January, police arrested 36-year-old Joshua Sanchez-Lopez on a charge of grand larceny of a motor vehicle. The defendant, a convicted felon most recently incarcerated after drug and involuntary manslaughter convictions, has an appalling 35 arrests on his record.

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President Donald Trump said his administration will continue pursuing tariffs through alternative legal authorities after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a major portion of his administration’s tariff program earlier this year.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized the ruling but emphasized that the decision did not eliminate his ability to impose tariffs through other laws.

“The Court knew where I stood, how badly I wanted this Victory for our Country, and instead decided to, potentially, give away Trillions of Dollars to Countries and Companies who have been taking advantage of the United States for decades,” Trump wrote.

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The emperor is stark naked, but thanks to a misguided legal doctrine, the Republican justices keep insisting he’s fully clothed.

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Apparently, this famous quote was written by the 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire, but I first heard the line in the movie The Usual Suspects. I think about it often, as it encapsulates Donald Trump’s relationship with the Republicans on the Supreme Court.

The Donald Trump who exists in the real world—the racist, fascist sexual predator who happily tweets out the illegal and unconstitutional motivations for his policies—does not exist according to the Supreme Court. Instead, the court has invented a different Trump, one who does not speak, does not lie, and adheres to the well-established norms regarding the use of executive power. It has dreamed up a normal US president, grafted this creation onto Trump’s legal filings, and then ruled as if this fiction were reality.

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Since President Trump’s return to office, left-wing activists have filed a multitude of lawsuits challenging the administration’s policies across Democrat-dominated district courts. The primary purpose of this lawfare is to generate favorable rulings and injunctions from rogue judges to stop the enforcement of the president’s agenda.

But there’s also a secondary mission embedded in this judicial coup that is rarely discussed. That is, the left’s effort to delegitimize and destroy the American people’s faith in the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Progmerican judge has made another unhinged ruling intended to prevent ICE officers from effectively protecting their facilities from paid Progmerican street fighters, the so-called anti-ICE protestors. Michael Simon, traitor to the American republic, has ruled that officers cannot use non-lethal means of crowd dispersal or control unless the crowd poses an “imminent threat of physical harm”

Non-lethal crowd control is a means of preventing protests from becoming riots. This ruling effectively assures violence will happen at ICE facilities as ICE officers will only be respond once, effectively, lethal force is justified. This is exactly what they want, ICE officers killing their street soldiers, who will all be portrayed by the Democrat media as choir boys and girls that didn’t do no harm, mothers, sons, fathers, etc.

Judge Simon as married to a militant anti-ICE Progmerican, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. That fact was not enough to warrant his removal from this case, because the decision makers are all Progmericans themselves, so no action was taken against this clear violation of judicial standards.

Let us pray for a quick reversal. Let us pray more for the insurrectionist judges in this country to be removed, lawfully, by the DOJ. The evidence of their sedition is now overwhelming. Lest the civic rescue us, they continue to be a righteous judgment against an evil land, a land that continues to sacrifice children as a means of birth control.

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BREAKING: Oregon federal judge blocks ICE from using crowd control munitions at Portland facility – The Post Millennial

Judge Simon, appointed by Barack Obama, is married to anti-ICE Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, which has sparked conflict-of-interest claims.

United States District Court Judge Michael Simon has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting federal agents from using less-lethal crowd control munitions on agitators at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, Oregon. Judge Simon ruled on Monday in favor of a group of protesters and leftist self-declared journalists who filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on claims that their First Amendment rights have been violated by being subjected to crowd control measures during ongoing Antifa-affiliated direct actions, arguing improper force on “peaceful protesters” intended for “retaliatory animus.”

The order bars officers from using chemical or projectile munitions against protesters, unless they pose an “imminent threat of physical harm” to a law enforcement officer or someone else. This includes tear gas, pepper balls, flash-bang grenades, rubber bullets, pepper or oleoresin capsicum spray, and other less-lethal weapons. Judge Simon also decided that federal authorities cannot fire munitions at an individual’s head, neck, or body unless they are warranted in using lethal force.

Additionally, Judge Simon, who is married to anti-ICE Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, sparking conflict-of-interest claims, ruled that federal agents are forbidden from using chemical munitions or projectiles against individuals trespassing on ICE property, even if they refuse to comply with an officer’s order to disperse. This includes the driveway, which is the main entrance to the facility that controls ingress and egress. It is also the main area where demonstrators gather and have been documented attacking the building, assaulting federal agents, and impeding federal vehicles, including the transport of illegal immigrants, since June 2025, when the ongoing Antifa-affiliated anti-ICE occupation was first established.

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On Tuesday, word came that the legal disciplinary authority in Washington, D.C., was charging U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin with ethics violations, kicking off proceedings that could result in penalties up to and including disbarment.

In so doing, it might have just helped make the case for the action the Trump Justice Department recently initiated to begin to combat the weaponization of such bar disciplinary tribunals — namely, against conservatives.

The D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility alleges that while serving as U.S. attorney last year, Martin — a conservative stalwart long loathed by the left — violated local rules of legal conduct in probing Georgetown Law School for its alleged continued promotion of DEI in its curriculum, and refusing to hire those affiliated with the school until it purged DEI accordingly.

“Lawfare/Barfare is alive & well,” said Jeff Clark, the recently departed chief Trump administration regulatory officer. “Apparently, DC’s Disciplinary Counsel cares not that 1) DEI is an unconstitutional violation of equal protection of the laws; & 2) the President had issued an executive order banning it if an institution takes federal money. Blatantly political.”

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The lust for political vengeance against anyone who provided assistance to Donald Trump in the 2020 election is still in full swing in Wisconsin, as evidenced by an ongoing abusive criminal prosecution that has now reached the state supreme court with motions over possible misconduct by the trial judge and a request for two biased members of the high court to recuse themselves from the case.

Not to be outdone by discredited Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, the Les Misérables Inspector Javert of Wisconsin, has been obsessively pursuing a lawyer, Jim Troupis, along with two other defendants, Kenneth Chesebro and Mike Roman, for engaging in completely lawful political activities.