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OA1289 - Is Disney/ABC’s bold new legal action against the Trump administration one of the most important First Amendment challenges  of our lifetimes, or just another Mickey Mouse operation? Matt explains. Also an explainer on the legally questionable end of Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador, a new ICE purchase that will truly shock you, and a footnote on how the lawyer who put himself in a fancy Star Wars-themed Superbowl ad turned to the Dark Side.

FCC order to ABC affiliates noting that ABC is under investigation for violations of FCC rules and “discriminatory” hiring (4/28/2026)

Complaint in ABC et al v. FCC et al, filed 8/18/2026

User manual for Compliant Technologies’s G.L.O.V.E.

The Kentucky Hammer’s 2020 Super Bowl commercial

Complaint in White v. Isaacs & Isaacs, filed 6/2/2026

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Status Quo Level Thing

My favorite quotes from this absolute gem of an episode: The View… couldn’t imagine watching it. Hate to be the guy that just goes out and points out the law again… Do you think it’s possible that people who make electric shock gloves to torture immigrants didn’t do well in high school? ‘Cause I think it’s possible they didn’t do well in high school. Also Matt- the INA definition of child does though allow applicants keep their “child” status (if unmarried) until age 21, rather than lose it at 18, which is a plus. And I personally would love an episode about the absolute inanity of the employment authorization document (EAD) process. How a monkey chained to a computer could process them, and how they should just automatically be generated along with the underlying benefit being granted.

Matt Cameron

I thought I'd made that point re: the upside of the "child" definition when talking about SIJ but I probably didn't say it clearly enough! And yes, EADs should be stapled to fee receipts, it's just so bad for everyone (and the economy generally) to dole them out so inefficiently the way we do

David in Brooklyn

Hi. Regarding your comparison of the G.L.O.V.E. manual's disclaimers with the supposedly absurd idea of a microphone that has rules about what you're allowed to say through it: I just sent a message to the show's email account with a Nazi-era brochure for microphones from the main supplier of audio and other broadcasting and P.A. equipment to the Nazi party and the Nazi government's ministry of "propaganda and public enlightenment". It features a notice restricting all use of the microphones to the purposes explicitly authorized at the time of sale. So from an authoritarian point of view, maybe your comparison isn't so absurd after all. --best regards

Nadia

The news just broke this week that those shock gloves were given out to SROs in Nebraska. So I guess in addition to torturing immigrants you could torture children…

Kate Jay

Can't wait until one of these dipshits forgets he's wearing the G.L.O.V.E. and grabs his buddy with it, or Force lightnings himself in the balls (depending on hairiness I guess)

Objection Duologically Noted

Just wanted to say, Matt's joke at the end was unnoticed by Thomas...but not by me. "...can't nail it every time." Absolutely drilled that one.