A Trump trial judge decides to overturn Supreme Court precedent on home distilling. And speaking of sobriety … we’ll check in on Rudy Giuliani’s attempt to replicate Alex Jones’s stunning success in the bankruptcy court. Patreons get an extra field trip to Congress, where Oversight Chair James Comer invites the Biden administration to say where it would like to be kicked.

Links:

Wait, The Fifth Circuit Is Snatching Cases From Other Circuits Now?

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-fifth-circuit-is-snatching-cases

26 USC 5178

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5178

26 USC 5601

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5601

HDA complaint

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014.1.0.pdf

HDA docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68073961/hobby-distillers-association-v-alcohol-and-tobacco-tax-and-trade-bureau/

HDA decision

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014.49.0_1.pdf

FRCP 26

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26

Freeman v. Giuliani (DC docket)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61642105/freeman-v-giuliani/

Giuliani stipulation

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.84.2_1.pdf

11 USC 362

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/11/362

Giuliani May MOR

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.267.0.pdf

Giuliani May exhibits

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.267.4.pdf

House GOP Letters to Biden Agencies Post-Chevron

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/07.10.2024-Letters-to-federal-agencies-regarding-Loper-Bright-v.-Raimondo.pdf

Distillers Want to Decriminalize Making Booze at Home

https://www.texasobserver.org/distillers-decriminalize-home-booze/

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