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Morning Docket: 10.31.25

* Judge Nichols heaps praise on DOJ lawyers suspended for acknowledging the January 6 riot. [Reuters]

* Next big executive power showdown? National monuments. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Government tells Supreme Court that overturning tariffs would jeopardize all the trade deals they wouldn’t need it they didn’t have tariffs. [Law360]

* Clients turning to firms for AI training. No way this ends in disaster. [Legaltech News]

* The only entity that tried to steal an election in 2024 was the North Carolina Supreme Court. This article gets at the root cause of that rot. [ProPublica]

* We’re yet again debating the dumbest policy question ever: permanent daylight saving. [The Hill]

* Happy Halloween… with some classic lawyer jokes. [Banzhaf]

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.30.25

* Investigation suggests Kash Patel used FBI jet to go on a date. [New Republic]

* The other half of the “shot, chaser” combo: Government shutdown stalls FBI investigations. [Reuters]

* King & Spalding profile highlights community work. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

* Bench trial begins in troop deployment challenge as Ninth Circuit reviews injunctive relief en banc. [Law360]

* Snell & Wilmer tagged in another apparent AI hallucination case. [ABA Journal]

* While the administration brands its extra-legal enforcement operations as targeting cartels, a Spotlight deep dive reveals… the DEA has no idea who is actually a cartel member. [Boston Globe]

* DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate in bid to chill protest. [NBC]

* Cooley joins 4-day in-office club. [American Lawyer]

* Florida AG brings on Boies Schiller and Cooper & Kirk to pursue litigation against mega corporations. Given that the AG has mostly run his mouth about prosecuting anti-wokeness, maybe the firms are being brought in to pursue the mundane “actual consumer protection work” that politicians that state officials no longer care about. [Bloomberg Law]

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