Gobbledygook and Gibberish

LAWFARE: Judge Laplante has circumvented SCOTUS' ban on nationwide injunctions by declaring anyone on earth 'deprived' of US citizenship is part of a class in order to reinstate his nationwide injunction against Trump's birthright citizenship EO. pic.twitter.com/XO1SWNDgGZ

— amuse (amuse) July 10, 2025

The term gobbledygook was coined by Maury Maverick, a former congressman from Texas and former mayor of San Antonio.¹⁹ When Maverick was chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation during World War II, he sent a memorandum that said: “Be short and use plain English. … Stay off gobbledygook language.”²⁰²¹ Maverick defined gobbledygook as “talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words.” The allusion was to a turkey, “always gobbledygobbling and strutting with ridiculous pomposity.”²²²³

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