What I’ve always heard was that for cases like this that involve the public interest (as opposed to giving corporate secrets to competitors or whatever) the whole point of the NDA is to sound scary and intimidating, especially for low-level employees, rather than being an ironclad legal document that’s likely to be upheld in court. Any lawyer can put together a legal-sounding threatening document. But more often than not the company won’t actually even try to go after folks who violate it. And assholes like Pruitt had more than enough opportunities to do some research, get some legal counsel, and push back against the NDAs like Stormy did way back in 2018.
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