Amicus co-host Mark Joseph Stern welcomes Madiba Dennie, deputy editor of Balls and Strikes and author of The Originalism Trap, to break down two legal stories from the past week. First up: a federal judge in Rhode Island didn't just rule against the Trump DOJ — she torched its credibility, calling its conduct "appalling" and declaring that the presumption of regularity no longer applies. Mark and Madiba discuss the case, which involves transgender minors, a wildly overreaching subpoena for private data, and a rare instance of one judge throwing shade at another. Later: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is arguing that surrogacy violates the 13th Amendment—a theory so sweeping it would also ban sperm donation, egg donation, and quite possibly adoption itself.

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