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This is what happens when law school deans get a notice of noncompliance from the ABA.

* Roger Stone’s heading to court today. That should be a scene, man. [National Law Journal]

* Corrupt legislatures… not just for U.S. Congress anymore! The ABA House of Delegates bails out for-profit law schools again. [Law.com]

* The New Yorker has a deep dive into Plessy v. Ferguson as “The Case That Enshrined White Supremacy.” Dude, let me introduce you to Shelby County. [New Yorker]

* Texas is pretending thousands of “illegal” immigrants have voted over the years. The methodology is basically “they were once not citizens… then years later they voted!” I only highlight this story because in 6 months when it gets unceremoniously dropped by ACTUAL CRIMINAL DEFENDANT Texas AG Ken Paxton it’s worth remembering how completely insane this all is. [Courthouse News Service]

* Fugitive ex-Hunton attorney gets 7 years… or over 61,000 billable hours. [Law360]

* Not to defend Harvey Weinstein, but should we really be using a human trafficking law here? [Time]

* Now they want to make animal cruelty a federal felony. Could we maybe start with making a federal case out of “shooting unarmed kids in the back”? [WECT]

* Adam Feldman examines the historical record to look at how Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s brutal confirmation process could affect his jurisprudence. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* And Joel Cohen looks at how Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight might affect his judging of the accused. [Law and Crime]

* Meanwhile, David Oscar Markus argues that criminal defendants in federal court get treated much worse than Justice Kavanaugh. [The Hill]

* Jemele Hill points out the support and sympathy for Justice Kavanaugh from a possibly surprising quarter: African-American men. [The Atlantic]

* Packing the Supreme Court? There ought to be a constitutional amendment about that, Jim Lindgren says. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]

* In fact, is it time for progressives to fight against, rather than within, the courts? Howard Wasserman offers thoughts on the recent Slate debate between Daniel Hemel and Christopher Jon Sprigman. [PrawfsBlawg]

* Patrick Gregory reports on the latest controversy in the world of lower-court nominations: the ABA’s “not qualified” rating of Eighth Circuit nominee Jonathan Kobes. [Big Law Business]

* Edmund Zagorski has multiple legal challenges to his execution (which is now on hold); former federal defender Stephen Cooper looks at the one based on the method of execution. [Tennessean]

* Congratulations to Pedro Hernandez on the dismissal of his case — and to his counsel, Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel, on the great result.

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* Update from the Paul Manafort trial: Rick Gates admitted… everything in testimony yesterday. He admitted he helped Manafort under-report income, create fake loans, and hide foreign accounts. Oh, and he says he did it all “at the direction of Mr Manafort.” [CNN]

* HSBC to pay $765 million to end the Department of Justice’s investigation into its mortgage securities business that was initiated after the financial collapse.[Law360]

* In a bid to combat its financial woes, the ABA is decreasing the cost of membership. They hope this will encourage more attorneys to become members. The organization has seen a 4 percent drop in membership in 2018 from 2017. [Law.com]

* Jeff Sessions has committed the DOJ to fighting U.S. District Court Judge John Bates’s order that the government reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. [Slate]

* New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is going after the Department of Labor for not responding to her FOIA requests. [New York Law Journal]

* The campaign of Georgia Democratic congressional candidate Steven Foster has hit a bit of a snag — the former emergency room doctor has been convicted of driving under the influence. [Law and Crime]

This is... bad news for the organization.

* Florida Coastal seeks restraining order against ABA requirement that the school to let students know that they’ll probably not be passing the bar exam. [Daily Business Review]

* Kris Kobach lost his effort to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters based on a series of rank fabrications… but the best part is the judge ordered him to attend CLE as punishment for his cluelessness throughout the trial. [Courthouse News Service]

* Cadwalader Cabinet functions as the “Bloomberg Terminal for financial regulation.” [American Lawyer]

* … And then promptly loses its financial services co-chair to Debevoise. So it’s an up and down kind of day down there. [American Lawyer]

* MillerCoors and Pabst locked in bitter legal battle. Why do mommy and daddy have to fight like this? [CNBC]

* Conversations with minority partners. [Law360]

* A call for Silicon Valley to get behind a privacy law. [Politico]

ABA seeks MDL treatment For InfiLaw suits.

The terrifying prospect is that the ABA may just not have the ability to fight these suits.

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If the ABA wants to increase its membership base, particularly from the solo and small firm community, it has to prove that it cares about their interests.

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A fifth New York law school will now accept the GRE for admission.

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Two schools are slow-playing the change.