{"id":74608,"date":"2026-06-08T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/lawsuit-aims-to-block-ufc-event-at-white-house-on-trumps-birthday\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:11","slug":"lawsuit-aims-to-block-ufc-event-at-white-house-on-trumps-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/lawsuit-aims-to-block-ufc-event-at-white-house-on-trumps-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit aims to block UFC event at White House on Trump\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case argues Trump administration broke federal laws to accomodate \u2018deeply corrupt\u2019 commercial sporting event<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is throwing himself quite the 80th birthday party at the White House on Sunday. All he needs now is for a federal judge, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson and a passing thunderstorm not to ruin it.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog group Public Integrity Project <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.293217\/gov.uscourts.dcd.293217.1.0.pdf\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> on Saturday in DC federal court, seeking an emergency injunction to halt the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event before a single punch is thrown on 14 June \u2013 which so happens both Flag Day and the president\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/trump-ufc-white-house-birthday-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case argues Trump administration broke federal laws to accomodate \u2018deeply corrupt\u2019 commercial sporting event Donald Trump is throwing himself quite the 80th birthday party at the White House on Sunday. All he needs now is for a federal judge, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson and a passing thunderstorm not to ruin it. The watchdog group Public &#8230; <a title=\"Lawsuit aims to block UFC event at White House on Trump\u2019s birthday\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/lawsuit-aims-to-block-ufc-event-at-white-house-on-trumps-birthday\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lawsuit aims to block UFC event at White House on Trump\u2019s birthday\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}