Judge Ho Blows Off Clarence Thomas Taking $500K In Vacations Because Some Other Judges Own Stocks So… You Know… Something Something.
There are bad arguments and then there's whatever Judge Ho was trying to do here.
Clarence Thomas: The Convenient Textualist
Who reads all of the statute anyway?
Keeping Law School Accessible When Federal Loans Fall Short
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
Ted Cruz Wants You To Believe That The ‘Real’ Racism Is Holding Powerful Multimillionaires Entrusted To Enforce And Obey The Law Accountable
If only people were as lenient toward people in need as they are to some of the most protected, powerful, and wealthy among us.
Clarence Thomas’s Piss-Ass Excuse For Not Disclosing Megadonor Real Estate Sale
So, is Clarence Thomas a bad faith actor or just not very good at this interpreting the law thing?
Morning Docket: 04.17.23
* Dominion’s defamation trial against Fox delayed at the last moment, raising speculation that Fox may be trying to settle approximately a two years too late. [CNN] * US News delays release of law school rankings following freak out from schools worried about what their own stupid boycott caused. [Reuters] * Clarence Thomas is amending his old financial disclosures to include the shady revelations of the past few weeks. He claims this is all unnecessary because he lost money on these deals despite the statute being very clear that profit and loss are irrelevant to disclosure. But who really believes in holding people to the explicit text of a statute, huh? [Huffington Post] * Federal Circuit is investigating the fitness of one of its 95-year-old judges. Not that there's really much they can do about it. [Bloomberg Law News] * Is it bad when your lawyer is recusing himself because he had to testify to the grand jury about you? That seems bad. [Washington Post] * Ron Klain heads back to O’Melveny. [Axios]
Appearance Of Bribery: Political Megadonor Wants Us To Believe He Bought And Improved Justice’s Mom’s House Off The Record Because Of History Or Something
With the way Harlan Crow is funding efforts to immortalize Clarence Thomas, Justi Tom Tom is going to end up making cameos in Marvel films.
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Morning Docket: 04.14.23
* Somehow the Clarence Thomas ethical morass got worse. [ProPublica] * Biglaw firms consider recapturing the magic of lockdown profits by severely curtailing travel for in-person meetings. Yeah, that's what the clients want in 2023... firms to Zoom them to save $5K. [American Lawyer] * Liberals claim calls for Dianne Feinstein to resign are "sexist." Which is exactly what the same liberals said about calls for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign and how did that work out for you? [Bloomberg Law News] * SCOTUS refuses to halt student debt settlement involving schools that the government characterized as functional diploma mills. Don't worry, they're still on track to strike down the student debt settlement that could help the most people. [Reuters] * Former client is "batshit crazy" says attorney. I don't know about this specific client, but there's a generalizable ring of truth to this. [Law360] * DeSantis signs 6-week abortion law which, as political mistakes go, is right up there with "pissing off Disney." [AP]
What’s Half A Million Dollars Among Friends And Easily Corruptible Government Figures?
Clarence Thomas takes some me time.
Should Any GOP Megadonors Wish To Ply An ATL Columnist With Luxury Travel, See Email Below
Although the ethical obligations of Supreme Court Justices are notoriously lax and ill-defined, disclosure of gifts at the level Harlan Crow has bestowed on Clarence Thomas would seemingly be the bare minimum.
Senate Judiciary Committee To Hold Hearing On Supreme Court Ethical Standards
Don't expect much from John Roberts's leadership on this issue.
How Checkbox’s ‘Legal Front Door’ Can Transform Your Workflow
Leveraging agentic AI to triage, prioritize, and automate the law department inbox.
Thomas Responded To His Paper Trail Of Law Breaking With ‘My Friends Said It Was Okay.’ We Should Expect Better Of Our Judiciary.
We should expect 'Supreme' Jurists to have 'Supreme' Ethics. Is that really too much to ask?
Morning Docket: 04.10.23
* The WSJ editors trying to explain why this Clarence Thomas story is not massively illegal is the funniest thing you'll read today and we write jokes about the law on purpose. [Wall Street Journal] * Is the conservative legal movement an elite social club? Sort of... in the way the Manson family was about family values. [New Republic] * Remember when Gunderson pushed start dates and then started laying people off? They've started laying off those people too. [American Lawyer] * After this Kacsmaryk decision, Reuters asks "what's next" as if there's a lick of legality to anything surrounding this guy. [Reuters] * Johnson & Johnson has uncovered the litigation funders behind the talc suit because... cancer is okay if no one stands to gain from it? It's not really clear why this matters actually, but some lawyers got paid and we'll celebrate that. [Bloomberg Law News] * Texas eyes pardon for convicted murderer to own the libs. [Austin American Statesman] * NY's top court looking into the legality of kicking the media out of a trial. This is not about Donald Trump but... this is also very much about Donald Trump. [Law360]
Should ‘Cartoonish’ Corruption Get You Impeached? Probably! But Clarence Thomas’s Job Is Safe.
How *not* to respond to an ethics crisis.
Paragon Of Virtue Clarence Thomas Has Been Given Half Million In Value Off The Record And It Totally Hasn’t Impacted His Judging. Not One Bit. Nope.
You can train crows to bring presents. Did Crow train Justice Thomas with his?
Dems Consider Going After Supreme Court’s Money If They Don’t Get An Actual Ethics Rule
Are we actually getting an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court? Probably not, but it's a start.