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this is absolutely wild
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T16:21:13.239Z
the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a)
so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.
tl:dr - Judge just told Trump "I ain't reading all that shit, go try again."
— The Questionable Authority (@questauthority.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T16:04:28.097Z
The order starts with the phrase "As every member of the bar of every federal court knows (or is presumed to know)..."
[Goes to rules of Federal Procedures]
— STEMthebleeding (@stemthebleeding.bsky.social) 2025-09-19T16:10:50.271Z
[Looks up Rule 8]
*passes out from laughing*
For non-lawyers, its literally this meme




Baitball Blogger
(50,973 posts)Trump abusing the law to apply pressure on his opponents. No surprise theyre getting sloppy.
William Seger
(11,834 posts)Sounds like maybe the faux-king idiot insisted on writing or editing the complaint himself, though.
Wounded Bear
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malaise
(289,475 posts)Judge just told Trump "I ain't reading all that shit, go try again."😀😂😀
RussBLib
(10,206 posts)That was a ridiculous lawsuit.
"Wah! The New York Times supported Kamala Harris and not ME! SUE! SUE!"
https://russblib.blogspot.com
Ocelot II
(127,423 posts)wiggs
(8,447 posts)littlemissmartypants
(29,886 posts)This section is hilarious.
Ouch.
Of course, it's all going to fly over his head like a MiG-31.
Thanks for sharing this, Ocelot II. ❤️
🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇸
allegorical oracle
(5,749 posts)fact, I'll bet Lawrence O'Donnell has already phoned the judge. Sadly, poor Donald won't comprehend much of the ruling. Too many big words.
JudyM
(29,550 posts)the pleader states, The Apprentice represented the cultural magnitude of President Trumps singular bril-
liance, which captured the [Z]eitgeist of our time.
Repetitive, laudatory but superfluous
Thanks for posting this, Ocelot II!
patphil
(8,291 posts)Are you kidding us? We're not going to read this shit.
GTFOH
irisblue
(36,061 posts)allegorical oracle
(5,749 posts)should have been concise and to the point of why/how he's been harmed by the NY Times.
Believe he has an uphill slog because djt's lawyers need to show that the newspaper printed the story with intentional malice. That's the same problem that exists with djt's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal regarding the Epstein birthday card.
Large newspapers keep excellent attorneys on retainer just for these occasions.
CatWoman
(80,156 posts)it was all like: "ME, ME, ME!!! I'm the greatest human being alive. HOW DARE THEY FUCKING CRITICIZE ME!!!"
allegorical oracle
(5,749 posts)place. He'll probably submit something else, unfortunately.
mountain grammy
(28,242 posts)then I went to the link up thread in Ocelot 's post and it looked intimidating. But I started to read and it's pretty funny. it's the Judges decision.
only bits and pieces of the actual appeal are quoted and summarized, but you get the general idea.
He's a flaming idiot!! obviously he wrote much of the appeal.
pnwmom
(110,097 posts)usonian
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Prairie Gates
(6,345 posts)The neighborhood crank who files endless lawsuits against the neighborhood association or the proverbial inmate who files 400 suits a year. To see it applied against the President of the United States is truly remarkable.
eppur_se_muova
(40,110 posts)onenote
(45,683 posts)Like it or not, he has been successful, or has gotten the other side to settle, several of the suits he has filed.
It is a very high bar for someone to be barred from access to the courts.
Xipe Totec
(44,401 posts)boonecreek
(1,233 posts)Who is the lucky duck that has to explain "vituperation" and "invective" to Trump?
eppur_se_muova
(40,110 posts)More colloquial version: "We just did this, OK ?"
Bluesaph
(981 posts)Now Trump can blame the judge for throwing out his case and he doesnt have to do discovery!
All theater!
Dave Bowman
(5,900 posts)rsdsharp
(11,350 posts)What the court did, sua sponte, was strike the complaint with leave to amend within 28 days to bring it into compliance with the pleading requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8.
sop
(16,197 posts)Barratry is the criminal offense of habitually bringing about quarrels or lawsuits, especially for profit or harassment. Lock him up!
onenote
(45,683 posts)Moreover, his litigation history, at least from 1980 to the mid 20-teens reveals that he has been a defendant almost as much as a plaintiff and of the suits where he was a plaintiff, almost 80 percent involved his casino business.
Sadly, his cases aren't thrown out of court as often as they probably should be -- the folks he sues all too often capitulate and settle.