Trump DOJ Has HAD It With Prosecutors Who Think Showing Up At Barack Obama’s House With Guns And A Machete Is Some Kind Of ‘Crime’
Prosecutors referred to January 6 as a riot... and that's a cardinal sin these days.
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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