Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.

Welcome back to The Rainmaker, my private newsletter focused on the legal maneuvering inside Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street.

This week, I’ve got some notes from America’s censorship wars. It’s bad news for Amy Klobuchar and Anthony Fauci, and good news for Mark Zuckerberg and Netflix. Plus, America’s greatest enemy’s litigious rival; Michael Rapaport is both settling and still fighting with Barstool Sports; and finally, how Donald Trump once tried to escape a legal tab.

But first...

• Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick is doing the best she can to keep Elon Musk and Twitter on schedule for a trial next month. It hasn’t been easy. For instance, see this sanctions order where, in the midst of a discovery dispute, the judge addresses the important question of whether the richest man on Earth is telepathic. Short story: He’s not—and thus not living up to discovery obligations. But she’s still not moving the trial date.

• Michael Rapaport and Barstool, in the midst of...

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The plaintiff is Ryan Kavanaugh, the well-connected Hollywood machinator who was anointed a wunderkind in the early 2000s for having developed a “formula” to guarantee movie profitability. Wall Street investors, including future U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, flooded the venture with cash. Of course, the supposed algorithm didn’t quite work. Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media produced some hits like The Fighter and Limitless, but also made plenty of flops. When Relativity declared Chapter 11, in 2015, the bankruptcy court hosted more Wall Street bigwigs than a Bill Cohan pool party...