Non-Sequiturs

* Greeeeeaaaaat. Now it’s easier for states to defund Planned Parenthood. [Slate]

* Scott Pruitt is the new EPA chief, but his open records issues continue. [Huffington Post]

* Finding new job opportunities as you age. [Law and More]

* Justice Breyer is an optimist. [Harvard Magazine]

* Law school scholarships and market forces. [TaxProf Blog]

* Kate Spade is exploring her options. [The Fashion Law]

* Randy Maniloff interviews Karen Korematsu, daughter of the late, great Fred Korematsu. [Coverage Opinions]

* RBG’s legacy. [YouTube via How Appealing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLdAKe9ADw

* Fantastic analogy, now all the geeks love you. [io9]

* The Senate wants an update from the FBI and Justice Department on exactly what went down with Mike Flynn’s resignation. [Daily Kos]

* Fox News settled sexual harassment claims, but did they violate SEC rules in the process? [Law and More]

* What Neil Gorsuch will really be like on the Supreme Court. [The Onion]

* Was a narcoleptic CIA agent discriminated against because of their disability? [Wake Forest Law Review]

* The IRS is moving against Obamacare. [TaxProf Blog]

* SiriusXM’s big Second Circuit victory. [Hollywood Reporter]

* Is this the future of immigration? [Slate]

* Jeff Sessions faces a difficult choice. [Huffington Post]

* Don McGahn may find himself caught up in the Mike Flynn/Russia scandal. [Law and More]

* Neil Gorsuch could be the most conservative justice on the Court.[Washington Post]

* Justice Kennedy wants us all to be more polite. [Sacramento Bee]

* Tiffany & Co.’s copyright problem. [The Fashion Law]

* The weak spots of Judge Gorsuch’s writing. [Legal Writing Pro]

* Effective ways to put yourself out there. [Law and More]

* Increasing profitability at your law firm. [The Records Company]

* Yup, now there’s a “Chantix Defense” — people who take the smoking cessation drug claiming it made them involuntarily intoxicated. [LawSci Forum]

* Does Judge Gorsuch have a yearbook problem? [First Mondays]

* The beginning of the end for Dodd-Frank. [Huffington Post]

* Sure, this is the Onion, but seriously, it isn’t far off. [The Onion]

* The history of judge-bashing: Trump is part of a populist tradition. [New York Magazine]

* Startups don’t have to involve technological know-how. [Law and More]

* I’m sure this won’t undermine the judiciary. I mean, I’m not sure at all, but we have the leader of the free world tweeting insults to jurists, so relatively speaking… [Gaveling]

* The suicide that is rocking K Street. [Huffington Post]

* Can your shade of hair change your ability to be taken seriously at work? [Corporette]

* Nope, having gay friends isn’t the same as a disciplined policy position on gay rights. [Slate]

* And you thought women were people. Silly rabbit. [The Slot]

* Macklemore, Imagine Dragons, Incubus, Miguel and Skrillex are headlining a benefit concert for the ACLU. [Salon]

* Will district court Judge Amul R. Thapar be the nation’s first South Asian-American Supreme Court justice? [Bloomberg/BNA]

* The ABA is urging President Trump to withdraw his travel ban. [New York City Bar]

* The Federal Bar Council doesn’t take kindly to Trump’s tweets about federal judges. [FBC]

* You know how your eyes glaze over halfway through a huge block quote? You should probably cut those down. [LawProse]

* With Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, are we heading for a constitutional crisis? [The Slot]

* Do you think George Conway will wind up as Solicitor General? [Law and More]

* This seems troubling. [Slate]

* This is what happens when your primary qualification for a job is being on The Real World. [Vox] * Oh, Kellyanne. Now you’ve gone and done it. [Citizens For Ethics] * The ACLU is set to get another big donation, this time courtesy of a talent agency’s Oscars party. [Huffington Post] * A look […]

* An unforced error by Melania Trump’s lawyers? [New York Personal Injury Attorney]

* This shampoo regulations case study is enough to make you start itching everywhere. [LawSci Forum]

* EPA nominee Scott Pruitt is facing a new lawsuit that alleges he failed to comply with open records laws. [PR Watch]

* Everything you need to know about Judge Neil Gorsuch’s writing style preferences. [Legal Writing Pro]

* What happens when solo practitioners get sick? [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* No Sean, I don’t think so. [Twitter]

https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/829413450224959490

* Livestream: State of Washington v. Trump. [U.S. Courts for the Ninth Circuit]

* What does the decision to broadcast this case mean for court transparency? [Fix the Court]

* Here’s what lawyers really say to each other. [Guile is Good]

* A critique of the IRS’s decision to not allow tax deductions for the cost of gender reassignment surgery. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Navigating the fallibility of the judicial system requires more nuance than Twitter allows. [New York Magazine]

* Trump threatens lawmaker’s career, is greeted with laughter. [Huffington Post]

* The job market the class of 2017 will encounter. [Law and More]

* Looking back at the rose, erm, robe ceremony that landed us Neil Gorsuch as the Supreme Court nominee and the mounting lawsuits against President Trump is a fun new Slate podcast. [Amicus]

* Not Kellyanne’s first slip of the tongue. [CNN]

* Is Biglaw doomed to the trash bin of history? [Law and More]

* Criminal defense attorneys have a lot in common with those fighting Donald Trump. [Katz Justice]

* Unions are what make factory jobs good jobs. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* A strategy for opposing Judge Gorsuch’s nomination. [Huffington Post]

* Judge Gorsuch by the numbers. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Employees are passé. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]

* Will Gorsuch be borked? [Law and More]

* Tell me again how Hillary Clinton was too cozy to Wall Street to be trusted. [Huffington Post]

* Judge Gorsuch: The College Years. [Fusion]

* Oculus exec slams expert witness in the case that led to a $500 million verdict. [Kotaku]

* The 25th Amendment will not save us. [Slate]

* The Super Bowl is coming up, try to stay out of jail. [Versus Texas]

* In their great new legal podcast, Dan Epps and Ian Samuel take a deep dive into Judge Gorsuch’s decisions and judicial philosophy. [First Mondays]

* Making sense of the Trump Administration’s legal maneuvers surrounding the immigration executive order. [Slate]

* My body, everyone else around me’s choice. [Jezebel]

* Judge Gorsuch’s past includes “Fascism Forever.” [Salon]

* The $500 million judgment against Oculus VR (now owned by Facebook). [Law and More]

* A primer on how the Dems should react to Gorsuch’s nomination. [Washington Post]

* J. Crew’s legal fight. [The Fashion Law]

* The ACLU has joined the Y Combinator community. [Y Combinator]

* I choose to believe Judge Gorsuch did this as part of a small effort to rise above the political morass he finds himself in. [The Hill]

* Anne Gorsuch Burford, Neil’s mom, and her controversial time at the EPA, which sound eerily familiar to what we are likely to see again in the next few years. [The Slot]

* If you’re a lawyer that opposes Trump, what should you be doing? [Law and More]

* Judge Gorsuch’s record on LGBTQ rights. [Slate]

* Designers and patents and trade dress, oh my! [The Fashion Law]

* When all strategies for dealing with Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court are flawed. [Rewire]

* How to find the best opportunities to network. [Reboot Your Legal Practice]

* Adam Feldman makes the case for Justice Neil Gorsuch. (Visit Above the Law at 8 p.m. for our live coverage of the Supreme Court announcement.) [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Speaking of SCOTUS, a former shortlister and current feeder judge, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, has a new book out: All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s. [Amazon (affiliate link)]

* Is the “chaos” of the Trump Administration’s early days really just the startup-like disruption of the established order? [Althouse]

* Professor Ilya Somin analyzes — and endorses — San Francisco’s lawsuit against President Trump’s “sanctuary cities” order. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]

* Professor Eric Chiappinelli offers two recommendations for law schools to survive — and even thrive — in today’s challenging environment. [PrawfsBlawg]

* Is the hiring of lawyer turned journalist Megyn Kelly the first step in NBC’s transformation into the next Fox News? [Instapundit]

* Jared Kushner’s NYU Law classmates have some views they’d like to share. And lucky for us, they wrote an open letter. [Salon] * What can Trump really do about sanctuary cities anyway? [Popehat] * If you’re donating your services to helping those impacted by the President’s reckless immigration law rewrite, Clio is offering free […]

* Ed Meese in defense of Trump SCOTUS shortlister William Pryor. [The Daily Signal] * What the Chief Justice's writings tell us about the constitutionality of the global gag rule. [Slate] * What does the cert success rate look like this Term? [Empirical SCOTUS] * The potential legal actions over Trump's copycat cake. [Dorf on Law] * Could you do semi-retirement? [Law and More] * Are the GOP getting spooked over Obamacare repeal? [Washington Post]

* True confessions of a Biglaw partner. [Law Practice Today]

* If you could prevent one person on Trump’s shortlist from getting on the Court, who would it be? [Slate]

* Will President Trump, or in the alternative, Congress, do anything about the bane of lawyers’ existence: discovery? [The Hill]

* Tim Kaine had some pretty cool alternate plans on inauguration day. [Huffington Post]

* The Netherlands’s safe abortion fund. [The Slot]

* Forever 21’s fighting infringement. [The Fashion Law]

* If you’ll be in Philly on Monday the 30th, please come to “Fred Korematsu Day: A Conversation,” featuring Kermit Roosevelt, author of Allegiance (affiliate link), and our very own David Lat. [Japan America Society]

* The United States has been downgraded to a “flawed democracy.” [New York Daily News]

* The irony is too much. [Washington Post]

* Rick Hasen on how a voter fraud investigation should really go. [Slate]

* The ACLU wants Jeff Sessions back before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [ACLU]

* Trump’s election changed a lot of things. [Medium]

* Get ready for insurance to be disrupted. [Law and More]

* Wait, where the heck _is_ Staci?

https://twitter.com/stacizaretsky/status/824339825063055364

* Elizabeth Warren’s idealism bends to the new political reality. [The Hill]

* We get a one week reprieve from Jeff Sessions as the next Attorney General.[Politico]

* Welp, this horrific perversion of religion is particularly stomach turning. [Wonkette]

* Are the Dems willing to play ball? [Slate]

* The United Kingdom’s plan to weaponize taxes. [Tax Law Prof]

* So… what’s the injury in the Emoluments Clause case? [Dorf on Law]

* Reflections on Scalia’s time on the bench. [YouTube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu8K8DTujSA&feature=youtu.be&t=11m58s

* Powerful essay from a Cornell Law professor on the need for empathy in the criminal justice system. [Verdict]

* It’s Apple v. Qualcomm, with $1 billion on the line. [Fortune]

* An inspiring story of a graduate of a lower-ranked law school who has found success. [Breaking into Biglaw]

* What’s the future of ethics? [Law and More]

* An analysis of the decisions of Trump’s shortlisters. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* On the legal consequences of the lack of supervision at work. [Guile is Good]

* The Chinese Business Lawyers Association is hosting a free CLE in New York tomorrow night at Fordham Law School. You can RSVP here. [CBLA Law]