Every Trump Lawsuit Calmly Explained (as of April 2026)

Duration: 1:21:04

Every Trump lawsuit, in one calm place. Fifteen months, six hundred cases, thirty-five Supreme Court emergency orders, and one legal analyst trying to make sense of it without raising his voice.

This is a long-form legal treatise covering every significant lawsuit involving Donald Trump and the second Trump administration from Inauguration Day 2025 through April 2026. Personal and official. Plaintiff and defendant. Criminal and civil. The Carroll verdicts, the Manhattan appeal, the dismissed Georgia RICO case, the $75 billion Trump has sought as a plaintiff, the birthright citizenship fight now before the Supreme Court, the IEEPA tariff ruling that cost the government $160 billion, the Alien Enemies Act deportations, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the four law firm executive orders, Harvard's win, Columbia's surrender, the looming death of Humphrey's Executor, and the judges whose names will still be in the footnotes a hundred years from now.

No hot takes. No doom-scrolling. Just fifteen years of copyright-defense habits applied to the biggest docket in American legal history, delivered at a pace you can actually listen to. Put it on while you fold laundry. Pour something. We'll be boring together.

What you'll get:

A complete case-by-case walkthrough of every major second-term lawsuit

Plain-language explanations of the constitutional doctrines at stake

The actual judicial reasoning, paraphrased carefully and attributed by judge

Aggregate numbers on the shadow docket, the loss rates, and the defiance rate

An honest accounting of what's been declared illegal versus what's actually been stopped

Resources and trackers mentioned in this video:

Just Security Litigation Tracker: https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/

Brennan Center Shadow Docket Tracker: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/supreme-court-shadow-docket-tracker-challenges-trump-administration

Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse (Michigan Law): https://clearinghouse.net/

SCOTUSblog interim docket coverage: https://www.scotusblog.com/

Lawfare: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/

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00:00:00 - Introduction: Calming Signals

00:02:41 - Part 1: Cases where Trump is personally a party

00:04:04 - The Manhattan Hush-Money Case

00:06:39 - The Jan 6th, 2021 Prosecution

00:07:12 - The Classified Documents Charges

00:07:45 - The Georgia State Racketeering Case

00:09:10 - The E. Jean Carrol Verdicts

00:09:27 - Carrol 2

00:10:15 - Carrol 1

00:10:49 - $500 Million Fraud Judgement

00:12:21 - Trump as a Plaintiff

00:13:02 - ABC News, CBS/Paramount

00:14:00 - Wall Street Journal / Rupert Murdouche

00:14:37 - BBC

00:14:58 - JP Morgan / Jamie Diamon / Cap One / IRS / Treasury

00:16:36 - Part 2: Birthright Citizenship

00:19:24 - Trump v. CASA

00:21:47 - Part 3: Trans Ban & DEI Bad

00:22:13 - Talbot v. Trump

00:22:35 - Shilling v. Trump

00:23:51 - DEI

00:24:07 - Nadohe v. Trump

00:24:47 - Dept. of Education

00:25:06 - Part 4: National Guard Deployment

00:26:45 - Part 5: DOGE

00:27:24 - Treasury Payment System

00:28:26 - Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent

00:28:55 - AFSCME v. SSA

00:29:27 - Part $: The Federal Advisory Committee Cases

00:30:26 - The Mass Firing of Probabtionary Employees

00:31:24 - AFGE v. Trump

00:33:22 - USAID and the Wood Chipper

00:34:01 - Doe v. Musk

00:35:18 - The CFPB

00:37:09 - The Dept of Education

00:38:39 - The Federal Employees Union

00:39:15 - AFGE v. Noem

00:39:50 - Part 6: Immigration & Deportation

00:40:18 - Alien Enemies Act

00:41:42 - JGG v. Trump

00:44:24 - Kilmar Abrego Garcia

00:48:51 - Temporary Protected Status

00:49:22 - NAACP v. Trump

00:49:50 - Miot v. Trump

00:50:26 - Sanctuary Cities & International Students

00:51:32 - Part 7: Tariffs

00:55:17 - Refunds

00:57:04 - Part 8: First Amendment Cases. Law Firms, Universities, Press

01:00:56 - Harvard and Colombia

01:02:57 - NPR and PBS

01:04:31 - Part 9: Indepedent Agencies & The Death of Humphrey's Executor

01:06:01 - Wilcox v. Trump

01:07:13 - Trump v. Slaughter

01:08:29 - Trump v. Cook

01:09:32 - Boyle v. Trump

01:09:43 - Samuels v. Trump

01:09:49 - Perlmutter v. Blanche

01:10:18 - Part 10: Impoundment Cases

01:11:26 - New York v. Trump

01:13:11 - Inspectors General

01:14:29 - Part 11: Supreme Court - Midterm

01:16:20 - Calvinball Jurisprudence

01:17:00 - Part 12: Final Inventory

01:18:43 - Leonard Thoughts

01:20:20 - Lawful Masses Needs Your Support