{"id":180,"date":"2026-06-16T11:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:08:55","slug":"lawfare-daily-for-profit-cage-fighting-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Lawfare Daily: For-Profit Cage-Fighting at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Brendan Ballou, founder and CEO of the Public Integrity Project, speaks with Senior Editor Roger Parloff about his group\u2019s case, <em>Douglas v. National Parks Services<\/em>, seeking to enjoin the UFC cage-fighting event on the White House South Lawn. Ballou alleges that the event is a \u201cvolcano of corruption,\u201d the first for-profit sports event ever staged at the White House, and a turning point in American history.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=179\">Closing the Title 32 Gap in Domestic Counter-UAS Authority<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ballou explains what laws and regulations he believes are being violated, and he addresses the government\u2019s claims that he waited too long to bring the case and that his plaintiffs don\u2019t have standing. He also discusses what can be done to ward off commercialization of national monuments in the future.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"110px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c\/6a303f2f6edea1d9abe83678\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Note:<\/em> This conversation was recorded on Thursday, June 11. In the early afternoon on Friday, June 12, Judge Amit Mehta denied the temporary restraining order that the Public Integrity Project was seeking to stop the UFC match at the White House on June 14. Judge Mehta ruled mainly on the grounds that the plaintiffs were unlikely to be able to show that they had standing.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=177\">A Kill Switch for Frontier AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To receive ad-free podcasts, become a <em>Lawfare <\/em>Material Supporter at www.patreon.com\/lawfare. You can also support <em>Lawfare <\/em>by making a one-time donation at .<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=175\">Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 12<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussing the litigation over the UFC cage-fighting event on the White House South Lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-branch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawfare Daily: For-Profit Cage-Fighting at the White House - National Consumer Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=180\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawfare Daily: For-Profit Cage-Fighting at the White House - 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