# Pound Cake for Everyone

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Podcast: [Serious Trouble](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851)
Published: 2026-03-20T18:28:05+00:00
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss the Afroman trial and also look at a rough hearing for AUSAs in New Jersey , as the Trump administration decides it will hire candidates straight out of law school to work in US Attorneys’ offices . That’s for all subscribers. Paying subscribers will also hear our conversations about: * Judge James Boasberg’s order quashing subpoenas to the Federal Reserve , U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s choice to appeal that order, and Boasberg’s other order requiring the disclosure of grand jury no-bills . * Capitol pipe bomber defendant Brian Cole, who has made his anticipated claim that the president’s pardon of January 6 rioters also applies to him (even though this seems to go against the plain language of the pardon, which applies only to those “convicted” of offenses related to January 6.) * Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom, who got slapped down for trying to have ex-parte communications with the judge overseeing his case ; Judge Lewis Kaplan reminded Prof. Barbara Fried that she might be a lawyer, but she’s not her son’s lawyer, at least not in this case. * Defendants convicted of terrorism-related offenses in Texas over an anti-ICE action where they set off fireworks and one defendant shot a law enforcement officer in the neck; as Ken notes, despite the rhetoric on both sides, this trial was never really about whether ‘Antifa’ constitutes a terror organization . * More hot hot administrative procedure action, with Judge Brian Murphy issuing a preliminary injunction against the new, laxer child vaccination guidelines from Robert F. Kennedy Jr’.s Department of Health and Human Services. * And dog-fashion magazine Dogue , which is being sued by Condé Nast for infringing th…

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