Every Donald Trump LOLsuit is like a 1L CivPro issue spotter, but his lawsuit in Florida state court against New York Attorney General Letitia James to stop her filing an enforcement action against him in New York state court is a wonder to behold. Yesterday’s idiotic filing against the Pulitzer Prize Board, whom Trump is suing in Florida state court for defamatory failure to revoke a prize, is a close second. But Trump v. James implicates sovereign immunity, so it takes top honors.
This is the lawsuit seeking to enjoin the AG from asking New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron to order Trump to hand over copies of his revocable Trust. Trump’s competent lawyer Chris Kise, the former Florida solicitor general who got shunted off the Mar-a-Lago documents case to the Trump Organization fight in New York, begged Trump not to file this suit, which was a pointless middle