Chud Suit Tossed
Judge Tosses Kash Patel Lawsuit, Cements ‘Googly-Eyed’ Insult In Court Record
FBI Director Kash Patel went to federal court to punish a man for calling him names. He lost — and in losing, he got the names entered into the permanent record of the United States District Court.
Chief U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon of Nevada this week threw out Patel's $10 million defamation suit against blogger and podcaster Jim Stewartson, and vacated the default judgment Patel had already won.
How It Fell Apart
- 2023 — the complaint. Patel sued Stewartson over online posts calling him a “blatantly incompetent chud” and a “Kremlin asset” who plotted to overthrow the government on January 6.
- August 2025 — the easy win. Stewartson didn't respond to the suit at all. Patel took a $250,000 default judgment by walkover.
- The challenge. Stewartson came back and argued the Las Vegas court had no business hearing the case — he had no meaningful ties to Nevada.
- This week — the collapse. Judge Gordon agreed. No personal jurisdiction over the defendant. Suit dismissed, default judgment vacated, quarter-million-dollar win erased.
Note what did not happen: no judge ruled the insults were true, and no judge ruled they were false. Patel lost on the venue — he sued in the wrong state. The merits never got a hearing.
The Footnote
Here is the part worth the price of admission. Judge Gordon's order quotes the offending phrase — Stewartson's description of Patel as a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch” — in a footnote.
Which means the insult Patel spent three years and $10 million of legal ambition trying to erase is now a citable line in a federal judge's written order. It will outlive the lawsuit. It will outlive his tenure. Librarians will catalog it.
Stewartson, for his part, took a victory lap:
“PSA: Now that my case is settled, you are free to refer to @FBIDirectorKash as a ‘chud,’ a ‘googly-eyed Kremlin bitch,’ and a ‘traitor’ without fear of legal repercussions!”
He also thanked the judge for the footnote specifically.
The Lesson Nobody Learns
This is the Streisand effect wearing a badge. A man with subpoena power and a $10 million filing decided the correct response to being mocked by a blogger was to make the mockery a federal matter. The mockery won. It didn't just survive — it got upgraded from a post on the internet to a line in the official record of the court.
The sitting Director of the FBI is now, as a matter of documented American jurisprudence, googly-eyed.
Sources
- HuffPost — Judge Tosses Kash Patel Lawsuit, Cements 'Googly-Eyed' Insult In Court Record
- Las Vegas Review-Journal — Patel's defamation lawsuit thrown out by Las Vegas judge
- The New Republic — Kash Patel Loses Lawsuit Against Man Who Called Him “Googly-Eyed” Chud
- The Daily Beast — Judge Tosses Keystone Kash Patel's ‘Incompetent Chud’ Lawsuit
- Raw Story — Patel loses lawsuit against blogger who called him a ‘googly-eyed’ Kremlin asset