# Pro Se Exam

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Podcast: [Serious Trouble](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851)
Published: 2026-03-27T15:05:14+00:00
Episode link: https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/pro-se-exam
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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 Judge Lewis Kaplan losing some patience with Sam Bankman-Fried, and not just because Bankman-Fried’s mom tried to communicate with him ex parte . SBF has been making purportedly pro se filings, at least one of which appears to have been dictated to and FedExed by his mother , and he simultaneously has an appeal proceeding in the appeals court with real lawyers. Kaplan says he has to choose — are you pro se or not? And he wants to know — have any lawyers besides mom been helping with these filings he’s supposedly personally responsible for ? Meanwhile, the “Department of War” has been having a rough time in court. The Pentagon’s anti-reporting press policy has been thrown out as a First Amendment violation , so now the Pentagon says no reporters at all can work out of the Pentagon press room . Meanwhile, Anthropic won a preliminary injunction blocking the Pentagon’s declaration that the company is a “Supply Chain Risk.” (The Anthropic order came down after we taped — we’ll have a further update on next week’s show.) That’s for all subscribers. Paying subscribers will also hear our conversations about: * DOJ’s admission that it had no evidence of a crime related to Jay Powell’s testimony about Federal Reserve headquarters renovation cost overruns (and the surprisingly low bar for issuing a subpoena that the government nevertheless failed to clear). * A surprisingly practical choice by DOJ in New Jersey . * Minnesota’s effort to force the federal government to disclose investigative material related to the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good. * Mike Lindell in contempt of court . * Mike Flynn getting a settlement from Trump for his alleged persecu…

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