Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is using the state's massive public pension fund as leverage to dig through The New York Times' internal editorial decisions — the latest in his string of shareholder-based attacks on companies he politically opposes.

Uthmeier fired off a 28-page demand letter Monday, giving the Times two weeks to hand over records on how its board oversees editorial decisions, arguing the paper's coverage choices expose shareholders — including Florida retirees — to costly legal risk, reported Politico.

"Editorial malpractice does not always kill a media enterprise. But it always sends a bill," Uthmeier warned.

The Florida Retirement System, one of the country's largest public pension systems with more than 1.2 million members, owns roughly 160,000 shares of Times stock, according to Uthmeier's office. He specifically zeroed in on a controversial May opinion column by Nicholas Kristof accusing Israel of using dogs to perform unspeakable acts against Palestinian prisoners — a piece that prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to threaten a defamation lawsuit against the paper. Uthmeier also demanded records tied to the Times' June coverage of misconduct allegations against former Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner.

The Times pushed back hard. "We are aware of the demand letter, which, while positioned as a request under corporate law, is a clear attempt to chill First Amendment-protected journalism," spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha said.

It's not Uthmeier's first rodeo using this playbook. As Gov. Ron DeSantis' handpicked attorney general, he's previously gone after companies like Target using nearly identical shareholder-risk arguments over their LGBTQ marketing decisions.

This week, he also involved himself in a WNBA basketball game taking place 1,300 miles away from his state, ranting that a foul against MAGA-beloved Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham could have been charged as assault if it took place in his jurisdiction.

One of President Donald Trump's former lawyers sounded the alarm on Monday after it became evident that Attorney General Todd Blanche would use his "wordsmithing" against the senators whom he courted during his confirmation process.

Ty Cobb, who served as special counsel during Trump's first term, told CNN's Erin Burnett that the deal Blanche struck with Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), declaring that the $1.776 billion so-called "anti-weaponization" fund is dead, was "pure theater." Trump made that clear on Monday when asked by a reporter in the Oval Office whether the fund is dead.

"That's up to Todd Blanche," Trump said.

That comment caught Cobb's attention.

"We all know that Todd Blanche is going to do whatever the president asked. That's his history," Cobb said on CNN's "OutFront." "Keep in mind that Todd Blanche drafted that order. Not the senators. The wordsmithing in it is very, very clear. It's really not worth anything more than a press release. It has no legal force in effect."

"In fact, the agreement between the president and his family regarding the fund and his IRS immunity says it can't be revised without the signatures of all the parties, so that document has no force in effect. It was pure theater," Cobb said.

Before he was confirmed, senators demanded that Blanche promise that the anti-weaponization fund would not be created. The fund sought to pay people who claimed they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government, and multiple Trump allies have publicly claimed that they would seek compensation.

Trump has since called on Republicans to establish the fund legislatively.

Someone associated with the Make America Great Again movement staged a massive — and "clearly fraudulent" — bot campaign in support of a measure that would restrict gun ownership by transgender people, according to a new report.

The Advocate reported that a flood of comments in support of a rule that transgender people list their assigned sex on their firearm paperwork were submitted during a public comment session as it came to a close in late July. Over the course of three days, public comment traffic spiked from roughly 1,000 commenters per day to over 1,800, in patterns that one anonymous data reviewer described as "clearly fraudulent."

An investigation by Assigned Media revealed that "nearly all of those comments show signs of being machine-generated." Experts who reviewed the case noted there were similarities in the comments that are "statistically impossible" to reproduce.

The report also suggested the campaign was conducted by a supporter of President Donald Trump, and caveated that pinpointing the individual may be impossible.

"Back in 2017, during Trump’s first term, millions of fake public comments — some using the identities of dead people — were submitted both for and against repealing net neutrality laws. The repeal went through regardless," according to the report.

The campaign also outraged some gun rights activists as an "attempt to scare trans people away from exercising their rights under the Second Amendment," according to the report.

“I don’t know who is doing it, although I obviously have ideas, but none of them can be substantiated,” Erin Palette, national coordinator of the LGBT+ gun group Pink Pistols, told the outlet. “Regardless, the fix is quite obviously in, although they must not have faith in their side winning if they have to resort to a figurative packing of the ballot box.”