Barack Obama
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Government
Donald Trump Was The Strongest President On Gun Control In The Past Quarter Century
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Law Schools
Michael Cohen Explains Why Donald Trump Is So Obsessed With Barack Obama
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Crime
OBAMAGATE: The Crime So Heinous They Haven't Invented A Statute For It Yet
The horror of a routine government procedure used 10,000 times a year!
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.28.20
* Representatives of Barack Obama have sent a cease and desist letter to a Republican Super PAC for using snippets from Obama’s audio books. But soundboarding is so much fun! [CNN]
* A Texas judge is blaming low blood sugar on a tirade that he leveled against a criminal defense lawyer. [Texas Lawyer]
* A law firm accountant is facing grand theft and attempted murder charges for a rampage she committed against coworkers earlier this year. [Gainesville Sun]
* South Carolina is facing litigation over a law that bans teachers from discussing LGBTQ issues in the classroom. [Guardian]
* An attorney who gave up the practice of law five decades ago has decided to reinstate his law license at the age of 82. It’s never to late to resume the practice of law. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 12.31.19
* Joe Biden stated that he may nominate Barack Obama to the Supreme Court if the former president was interested. Obama should brush up on his con law just in case… [The Hill]
* A retired law professor is suing commentors who discussed him online. [Reason]
* We lost some amazing lawyers in 2019, check out the list. [Bloomberg Law]
* A judge has dismissed an impeachment witness’ lawsuit after the House rescinded its subpoena. [CNN]
* An attorney has been hospitalized after a client punched him. This happens far too often. [Star Tribune]
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Finance
Donald Trump Blows As Much Taxpayer Money On Golf As Richest Pro Golfer Tiger Woods Earns Golfing
There should be some kind of official oversight regarding how much taxpayer money a president can spend on something as frivolous as weekly golf trips. -
Law Schools
Man Who Sued Law School Because He Didn't Want To Take LSAT Asks Judge To Recuse Because Obama Appointed Him
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Finance
Second Amendment News By The Numbers: Bump Stock Ban Makes Trump More Of A Gun Control President Than Obama Ever Was
Trump's most significant gun control policy achievement to date outstrips Obama's by nearly a full order of magnitude. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.30.17
* Former President Barack Obama has been called for jury duty in November, and unlike most Americans, he’s not looking for a way to get out of serving. [ABC Chicago]
* The pivot you’re looking for is in another castle: Now that a grand jury’s approved the first charges in the Russian collusion investigation and someone’s about to be taken into custody, President Trump took to Twitter to demand that Hillary Clinton be investigated. [New York Times]
* Paul Manafort is turning himself in. Surprise! (Is this really a surprise?) [CNN]
* Like it or not, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is planning to be around for the long haul. Don’t count on this “flaming feminist litigator” retiring any time soon. [The Hill]
* Justice Don Willett of the Texas Supreme Court, the state’s Tweeter Laureate, hasn’t tweeted a single time since he was nominated to the Fifth Circuit. How long will this god-awful silence from everyone’s favorite Twitter judge last? [Texas Lawyer]
* So long, borrower-defense rule? Betsy DeVos is thinking about only partially forgiving loans for students who were defrauded by for-profit schools. [AP]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.17.17
* Wells Fargo has a new compliance officer. Imagine a job that easy. Just saying “no, for the love of God, don’t do that!” over and over again pretty much covers it. [Law.com]
* Post McDonnell, Shelly Silver still thinks we need more protection for political bribery.[Law360]
* Rockland County doesn’t think everyone’s a winner at Nixon Peabody. [New York Law Journal]
* Former congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm paid off his nearly half a million debt to Biglaw. And he’ll probably be back in the House soon because Staten Island is the absolute worst. It’s where New York put its garbage. [National Law Journal]
* When access to justice includes a foreign sovereign. [Litigation Finance Journal]
* Literally EVERYTHING about the Obama years was done with one hand tied behind his back. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* A review of Gaslight Lawyers (affiliate link), the history of steampunk criminal trials. [Foreward Reviews]
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Justice, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Finds Law Unfair To Fathers, Decides To Treat Mothers Just As Bad
Don't blame Trump/Sessions for this one; this is an Obama/Lynch job. -
Barack Obama, Clerkships, Supreme Court Clerks
The Crazy Reason Why Barack Obama Didn't Want To Be A Supreme Court Clerk
Four current Supreme Court justices probably disagree with him.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.26.17
* The Russia investigation now turns to President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner — proud holder of a law degree from NYU (and a really great set of abs). [Washington Post]
* Former Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), currently senior counsel at Kasowitz Benson, has withdrawn from consideration as FBI Director (as my colleague Staci Zaretsky predicted, after Marc Kasowitz got hired by President Trump to represent him in the Russia probe). [New York Times]
* Congratulations to Judge Amul Thapar, President Trump’s first lower-court nominee, on his confirmation to the Sixth Circuit — although it’s disappointing that no Democrats voted in favor of this eminently qualified (and diverse) candidate. [How Appealing]
* Despite allegedly roughing up a reporter (for which he’s apologized), Republican Greg Gianforte won the race for Montana’s sole seat in the House of Representatives (as my colleague Joe Patrice predicted he would). [New York Times]
* How did Michelle Obama react when Barack Obama declined to pursue a coveted Supreme Court clerkship? Tony Mauro tells the tale. [Law.com]
* The ABA continues to fight the good (or not so good?) fight in defense of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. [ABA Journal]
* It seems that some folks on Capitol Hill like my proposed solution to the use of “blue slips” in the judicial confirmation process. [Washington Post via How Appealing]
* The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office concludes that a slew of murder convictions based on dubious evidence from embattled detective Louis Scarcella must be thrown out — and yet Scarcella engaged in no wrongdoing. [New York Times]
* Biglaw firms are suffering from an oversupply of lawyers, and a quarter of respondents to a recent survey said their associates don’t have enough work — which might explain why at least one firm has turned to laying off first-year associates. Yikes. [ABA Journal]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.24.17
* Sean Hannity vows to sue after a sexual harassment accusation. [The Hill]
* Jennifer Bard will not go gently into that good night. [TaxProf Blog]
* Tools for lawyers giving assistance to juveniles before they enter the legal system. [Law and More]
* Oh thank goodness, President Obama is back in public life. [Huffington Post]
* The case for a war tax. [Slate]
* Chuck Schumer sticks it to Jeff Sessions over the safety of the NYC subway. [Politico]
* The Supreme Court’s double standard. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
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Constitutional Law, Military / Military Law, Politics
Liberal Absurdity: Obama Didn’t Strike Syria Because He Respected The Constitution?!
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.09.17
* Amazon Echo: The first “smart” witness? [Ohio Bar Association]
* Appeals court finds showing a jury clips of Ben Affleck’s “The Town” didn’t unfairly prejudice the trial of bank robbers that allegedly drew inspiration from the movie. But isn’t that cruel and unusual punishment for that poor jury? [The Hollywood Reporter]
* I mean, you know Obama won’t do this, but it is fun to think about a libel case against Trump for his insane Tweeting. [Slate]
* 144,000 pages of documents on Neil Gorsuch were dumped on the Senate Judiciary Committee. [Politico]
* Speaking of SCOTUS, tune in to Twitter next Tuesday to hear a panel of experts — including our own David Lat — discuss the future of the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg BNA]
* More counterfeiter lawsuits. [The Fashion Law]
* Branding in SmallLaw — more important than you think. [Law and More]
* Try, try again. [Huffington Post]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.19.17
* President Obama commuted the sentences of an additional 330 federal prisoners held on drug convictions today. [Huffington Post]
* The Democrats who are not going to attend the inauguration. [Politico]
* More dustup over undisclosed celebrity endorsements. [The Fashion Law]
* Need a new job? Do you know how to crack the phone interview? [Law and More]
* Noam Chomsky has some thoughts on the ACA repeal. [Salon]
* This has become particularly poignant. [Slate]
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Constitutional Law, Politics
The Trump Presidency: Restoring Constitutional Order, After Constitutional Anarchy
Please welcome conservative columnist Kayleigh McEnany back to the pages of Above the Law! -
Politics
Obama Throws Shade At Trump In A Way Only A Law Professor Can
President Obama makes it clear: his relationship with the press is much different than Donald Trump's.