May 18, 2026: What to Know About the DOJ's New $1.776B "Anti-Weaponization" Compensation Fund, the Data Center Controversy, the Latest Supreme Court Updates, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

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4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Get the facts, without the spin. UNBIASED offers a clear, impartial recap of US news, including politics, elections, legal news, and more. Hosted by lawyer Jordan Berman, each episode provides a recap of current political events plus breakdowns of complex concepts—like constitutional rights, recent Supreme Court rulings, and new legislation—in an easy-to-understand way. No personal opinions, just the facts you need to stay informed on the daily news that matters. If you miss how journalism used to be, you're in the right place. In today's episode: What We Know About the DOJ's New $1.776B "Anti-Weaponization" Compensation Fund (0:12) What to Know About Data Centers and the Controversies Surrounding Them (~16:17) Supreme Court Updates: Mifepristone, Virginia's Congressional Map, Title IX, and More (~33:07) Quick Hitters (~38:12) Critical Thinking Segment (~41:59) ⁠Watch⁠ this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on ⁠Instagram⁠ and ⁠TikTok⁠. All sources for this episode can be found ⁠here.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome back to unbiased your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis
0:35.8	welcome back to unbiased politics.
0:38.8	Today is Monday, May 18th.
0:40.7	Let's talk about some news.
0:42.4	First, the big news of the day, the DOJ announced the creation of a $1.776 billion
0:48.8	compensation fund to compensate people who, quote, suffered weaponization and lawfare, end quote. So this
0:57.5	development follows news from earlier this morning that President Trump had gone ahead and
1:03.3	voluntarily dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. And we'll do what we always do with this story too. We'll talk about all of it,
1:13.3	but I want to kind of back up so that we're all starting from the same point. So back in February,
1:19.2	President Trump filed this $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS related to the leak of his tax
1:25.1	returns. This is a leak that became public years ago.
1:28.3	An IRS contractor named Charles Little John was ultimately sentenced to prison for illegally disclosing tax return information.
1:36.3	And he didn't just target Trump and Trump's sons, by the way.
1:40.3	He admitted to stealing tax records of thousands of other very rich people like
1:46.0	Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Nonetheless, President Trump and his two sons, Don Jr. and
1:51.9	Eric Trump went ahead and filed this lawsuit, essentially arguing that their private tax information
1:58.4	was illegally leaked because of the government's failure to take the
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