Republicans
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Government
Abortion, Dobbs, And The Republican Field
Conservatives argued for 50 years that the issue belongs in the hands of the states ... and all of a sudden that the issue does not belong in the hands of the states. -
Law Schools
The Law Schools With The Most Conservative And Liberal Students (2023)
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Law Schools
The Law Schools With The Most Conservative And Liberal Students (2022)
Which law schools do you think came out on top of these lists?
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Politics
Why The Expectation Of A Republican Landslide In November 2022 May Be Overstated
Three things are actually likely to be working in the Democrats' favor by the time of next year's midterm elections. -
Finance
Stock Market Roars Six Months After Biden Election, Trump Fans Who Pulled Investments Lick Wounds
The lesson is don't pull your money out of the stock market because you are pouting about an election result. -
Finance
Is Greed Good? Comeback Of Congressional Pork Spending Might Resurrect Compromise, Bipartisanship
Congressional pork (in the form of earmarks) has been gone since 2011, but now it might be making a comeback. -
Government
There Cannot Be Unity Following Conflict Absent An Acknowledgment Of Wrongdoing
If Republican leaders are going to cry about 'unity' while discouraging further action against their criminal president for the dumpster fire he turned our democracy into, well, they need to just shut up. -
Law Schools
The Law Schools With The Most Conservative And Liberal Students (2021)
Which law schools do you think came out on top of these lists? - Sponsored
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Government
Corruption, Lies, Rank Hypocrisy Do Not Matter: The Last Vestige Of Republicans’ Honor Died With John McCain
Tragically, for about a third of Americans, it just does not matter. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.24.20
* The American Bar Association has won a lawsuit establishing that ABA employees qualify for public service loan forgiveness. It would have been kind of embarrassing if a group of lawyers lost this case… [Forbes]
* Joe Biden is receiving some flak for wrongly stating that his late son was the Attorney General of the United States. [Fox News]
* A number of Republican state attorneys general are trying to block the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. [ABC News]
* A $14 million settlement has been proposed in a class action concerning inmates masturbating in front of Cook County public defenders. [Chicago Sun Times]
* Justice Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent on Friday criticizing the government for allegedly abusing the emergency application process at the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg]
* A minor league baseball team has revoked the tickets of a law firm that filed a case against the franchise on behalf of a client. This seems kind of petty. [The Athletic]
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Finance
Even Majority Of Republicans Support Wealth Tax, But Totally Objective Billionaires Skeptical
In 2020, the teeming masses should turn the tables and make the billionaires swallow our ideas for a change. -
Law Schools
The Law Schools With The Most Conservative And Liberal Students (2020)
Which law schools do you think came out on top of these lists? -
Courts
Republicans Angry ABA Rates Judges 'Not Qualified,' Not That President Nominates 'Not Qualified' Judges
The GOP rolls out its 'shoot the messenger' strategy, again.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.05.19
* Okay, fine, whatever, the Trump administration is apparently going to look for a way to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. We’re governing by tweet these days, and this is the latest information on this debacle. [Washington Post]
* And it looks like the way President Trump is thinking of adding a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is through an executive order. The Justice Department has until this afternoon to straighten this out. [ABC News]
* Nope, you still can’t use money that was supposed to go to the Defense Department to build a border wall. The Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction on the use of these military funds just before the holiday. [Los Angeles Times]
* Which Biglaw firms have received the most money from presidential candidates’ 2020 election campaigns? As you might have guessed, lawyers from Jones Day have gotten a lot to Republicans, and lawyers from Perkins Coie have gotten a lot to the Democrats. [National Law Journal]
* Prosecutors have dropped the manslaughter charge filed against an Alabama woman who was five months pregnant and lost her unborn child after being shot in the stomach. Congratulations, Alabama! Way to be normal! [CBS News]
* If you’re interested in going to law school, you should know that the average debt for the class of 2018 was pretty hefty at $115,481 — that’s $130,900 for private school graduates and $89,962 for public school graduates. Good luck paying it off! [Nerdwallet]
* Matthew Benedict, a student at Buffalo Law, RIP. [New York Law Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.03.19
* “Everyone in America counts in the census, and today’s decision means we all will.” The Justice Department has officially confirmed that in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, a citizenship question will not be added to the 2020 Census. [Washington Post]
* Has Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg handed off the high court’s liberal torch to Justice Elena Kagan? Based on the fact that the Notorious RBG assigned the dissent in the partisan gerrymandering case, it sure looks like it. [NPR]
* Dozens of prominent Republicans plan to submit an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of a “common sense, textualist” ruling that the Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace. [New York Times]
* Allen & Overy and O’Melveny & Myers are still in merger talks, but this has been going on for more than a year now and it seems like it’s taking forever for anything to happen. [American Lawyer]
* Michael Avenatti, the Lawyer of the Year accused of bank fraud and embezzlement, is refusing to give up his desktop, iPhone, and iPad passwords to federal prosecutors in New York. [Big Law Business]
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Law Schools
The Law Schools With The Most Conservative And Liberal Students (2019)
Which law schools do you think came out on top of these lists? -
Litigators
College Conservatives Butthurt That Nobody Wants Their Business Threaten To Sue
College Republicans get really angry when they can't force people to do something. -
Crime
'Family Values' Republican Blames His Wife For Criminal Indictments
The swamp is full of vipers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.27.17
* Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore has won the Republican primary runoff election for the Senate seat that was once occupied by AG Jeff Sessions. Perhaps we can look forward to history repeating itself and Moore being twice suspended if he wins the special election. [New York Times]
* Senate Republicans don’t have the votes for the Graham-Cassidy effort to repeal Obamacare to pass, but not to worry, because they’ll be back at it again soon via the 2019 budget reconciliation process, and next time, they’re going to be transparent, hold committee hearings, and even consult Democrats. [CNN]
* The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security has refused to waive Jones Act shipping restrictions that are preventing Puerto Rico from getting the gasoline and supplies that are so desperately needed for the island’s recovery efforts following Hurricane Maria. Senator John McCain is pissed, and says it’s time to repeal the “archaic and burdensome” Act. [Reuters]
* Freedom hangs in the balance for Making a Murderer’s Brendan Dassey, whose case was heard before the full Seventh Circuit yesterday. According to court watchers, the judges seemed split, and we can’t help but to wonder what Judge Richard Posner would have thought. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
* Irell & Manella’s Andrei Iancu, President Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is awaiting confirmation. There’s no better way to bide our time while we wait than to discuss the fact that he’d been pulling down a $4 million paycheck at the firm. We’ll have more on this later. [Am Law Daily]
* “How can you expect companies to do the right thing when you[r] agency has not?” U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton is taking heat over the fact that his agency was hacked in 2016, but nothing was mentioned about it until last week. He’s set a great example. [Big Law Business]
* According to a recent study, no matter what women do, in most cases, they’ll continue to earn less than men. The ban on asking employees about their salary history is doing nothing for women; in fact, they’re being penalized for refusing to disclose their salaries, while men are being rewarded. [The Careerist]
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Politics, Supreme Court
Are We About To Witness The Abolition Of The Filibuster?
Perhaps Judge Gorsuch wouldn't mind....