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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Clamps Down On Military Interactions With Congress

A Pentagon memo, obtained by Breaking Defense, now mandates that all communication with Congress be routed through its main legislative affairs office.

Morning Docket: 10.22.25

* Trump wants the taxpayers to pay him $230 million to compensate him for the federal criminal investigations he endured just because of… all those things he got indicted over. [CNN]

* AI as a trial prep tool has divided lawyers with critics arguing that its efforts to be perfect make it suboptimal for predicting the other side. [Texas Lawyer]

* Administration asks the Supreme Court to stretch Trump’s power to arbitrarily deploy troops to American cities just a bit further. Surely this will be the last request, right? [National Law Journal]

* NXIVM leader pulls out the “I was railroaded by the feds” playbook that seems to have a receptive audience with America’s most powerful Jeffrey Epstein birthday well-wisher. [Courthouse News Service]

* Judge says law school can be taught with just baseball cases. [ABA Journal]

* CFTC moving quickly to approve more fake money speculation now that the White House has a meme coin. [Law360]

* Special Counsel nominee withdraws over all the Nazi stuff. [Bloomberg Law News]

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