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Okay, Even Lindsey Graham Knows Something Needs To Be Done About The Supreme Court
You know things are bad when the GOP is warming up to concept of Supreme Court ethics. -
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Bold Proposal: Let's Just Convict People Of Crimes We Can Prove They Committed
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Michael Mukasey — With A Straight Face — Argues That Maintaining Friendships Is More Important Than Judicial Ethics And Not Breaking Federal Laws
The Supreme Court has been about as transparent about their ethics as Enron was about their trading losses.
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Samuel Alito's Self-Serving Dobbs Leak Theory Is Back In The News
Samuel Alito has a theory about who leaked the Dobbs decision; also, has mirror. -
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Raging About John Roberts's Wife 'Scandal' Really Making Liberals Look Stupid
Love the energy, but this isn't a big deal. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.01.23
* Donald Trump seeks mistrial after judge refused to let defense counsel play fast and loose with the definition of “bringing a rape charge.” Yeah, the argument “it’s unfair that you were more precise” is rarely a winner. [Reuters]
* Smoke grenades used to intimidate barrister. Damn, maybe things aren’t more civil across the pond. [Roll on Friday]
* So, if uncovering the securities fraud is likely to bankrupt the company, whistleblowers are better off looking the other way? Great incentive system! [Bloomberg Law News]
* North Carolina overrules precedent from last year because nothing matters and it’s just a superlegislature. [Law360]
* Sugar daddy lawyer sued young woman for $166 million. It did not work well for him. [Insider]
* Maritime firm Ince seemed destined for Davy Jones’s locker, but Axiom has thrown in a life preserver. [Splash 247]
* A profile on how ASS Law leverages Supreme Court connections to artificially inflate its apparent prestige. [NY Times]
* … and of course this leveraging includes vacation boondoggles for right-wing justices. [Mother Jones]
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The Senate F*cked Up The Kavanaugh Investigation
This is the opposite of confidence inspiring. -
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The Bipartisan Effort To Get Chief Justice John Roberts To Do The Right Thing
An enforceable code of ethics may not be just a pipe dream. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket: 04.27.23
* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics — a chorus that features pretty much everyone not on the Supreme Court. [Reuters]
* Trump loses effort to block Pence testimony. Again. [Politico]
* Biglaw firms game their partnership size to look more profitable, but there’s a stat to look for to check if a firm is truly healthy. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Biglaw capital market groups living in suspended animation as the whole economy continues to pretend there’s a recession until the Federal Reserve gives up trying to create one. [American Lawyer]
* Fox handing Smartmatic the Murdoch depositions because how much more damage can be done? Reputationally, we mean. Financially, it’s about $2 billion more. [Law360]
* Copyright claim against Ed Sheeran lodged by Marvin Gaye’s co-writer. Look, I get that Blurred Lines was — in addition to a bizarrely rapey song for the 21st century — pretty much Got to Give It Up, but you don’t get to own every chord progression in the universe. [ABA Journal]
* Ivanka hires Jeffrey Epstein lawyer after separating counsel from her brothers. [Daily Beast]
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The Supreme Court Ethics Scandal That Just Won't End
Yes, there's still more to say about Clarence Thomas. -
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Roberts Says Separation Of Powers Means He Can’t Testify, Senate Should Remind Him It Also Means 'Good Luck, Paying Your Bills, A**hole!'
To borrow from Supreme Court history, 'John Roberts has made his decision; now let him figure out how to pay for it!' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.26.23
* Former sex crimes prosecutor breaks down the little things from the first day of Trump’s rape trial. [Daily Beast]
* John Roberts refuses to comply with Senate subpoena. But sometimes it’s worth setting off a constitutional crisis over… graft. [CNN]
* It’s sentencing day for Steve Bannon’s fake wall charity buddies! [Reuters]
* Almost twice as many young associates hope to make partner than in the same poll a couple of years ago. [American Lawyer]
* UK blocks Microsoft’s bid to takeover Activision Blizzard. At least prove they can push Starfield out the door before letting them run Call of Duty. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Expert witness tells jury that Juul knew it was marketing to kids. Juul’s manufacturer denies the charge while taking a deep drag of FrootLoops-flavored smoke from its glowing neon device. [Law360]
* New York on the brink of blocking criminal defense attorneys from timely access to key discovery so the governor can claim that it’s tough on crime for the handful of criminal defendants acquitted have worse odds. [New York Times]
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Biglaw Head Bought Neil Gorsuch's Property In 2017. Yes, We Are Just Learning About It Now.
This is not how judicial ethics is supposed to work.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.25.23
* Which Supreme Court justice sold a nearly $2 million property to the head of Greenberg Traurig and then left the identity of the purchaser blank on the disclosure form? [Politico]
* Donald Trump’s rape trial begins today. Here’s a short primer. [Reuters]
* But if criminal law is more your fancy, Fulton County DA Fani Willis provided a July 11 timeline for criminal charges in Georgia election interference suit. [Law360]
* The legal industry is in desperate need of more financial regulation lawyers. After a couple bank failures, we should probably be more concerned about having more financial regulations first, but I digress. [The Recorder]
* Financial regulation lawyers who can help the heads of failed banks avoid turning over their multimillion dollar compensation packages. [Bloomberg Law News]
* University of Arizona College of Law moves back to online learning in response to investigation of “possible threat.” [KGUN]
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People Annoying You On Facebook? Block Them. Unless You Are A Government Official, Maybe?
The Supreme Court will take any case to distract us from Clarence Thomas being bankrolled for the last 20 years, huh? -
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Samuel Alito Is Big Mad Supreme Court Grants Stay In Abortion Pill Case
Why don't you tell us how you really feel, Sammy? -
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Chief Justice John Roberts Plays Stalking For Laughs
Another potentially awful decision coming from the Supreme Court. -
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Chief Justice Roberts Has The Opportunity To Do Something Extremely Funny About Judicial Ethics
Don't buy the bait and switch — we all know who we should be hearing from. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.21.23
* Senate calls Chief Justice Roberts to testify about judicial ethics… for some reason. [Huffington Post]
* Bringing lawyers back from their home offices inspired offices to embrace collaborative work spaces. Unfortunately, lawyers still require solitude to do many if not most core tasks. [American Lawyer]
* ABA data breach gets worse as investigation determines exposed usernames and passwords. [Law360]
* Berkeley adopts AI policy for final exam. Students can’t use generative AI in a way that constitutes plagiarism, “which Berkeley defines as repackaging the ideas of others.” Not sure how caselaw works into that definition, but whatever. [Reuters]
* Skadden hires judge who approved its opioid client’s bankruptcy. Like… was Sullivan just not hiring? It seems as though there are a lot of firms out there that wouldn’t require this logistical morass. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Texas is on track to require posting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms, in case you were wondering about the long-term impact of the Supreme Court giving that football coach back the job he didn’t seem to want back. [Texas Tribune]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.20.23
* Clients might be “at the end of their rope on rate hikes.” They say after Biglaw billing has lagged behind inflation. “We’re done with your rate increases!” is the “my girlfriend lives in Canada, you don’t know her” of corporate legal. [American Lawyer]
* Lisa Monaco tells Congress that warrantless surveillance is key to keeping abreast of Russian activity in Ukraine. If you want to make an omelette, you’ve got to break a few core constitutional protections. [CNN]
* Court rules against effort to block Mark Pomerantz from testifying to Jim Jordan’s “We Don’t Need To Go After Every Crime We See” Committee. [Law360]
* The Supreme Court extended the stay of the Fifth Circuit’s mifepristone ruling. It’s still up in the air, but Ian Millhiser’s theory sounds plausible that Alito must lack votes or he would’ve just let the stay lapse. [Vox]
* Putting aside the political ramifications… remember that some of those Dominion lawyers were on contingency. Ka-ching. [Reuters]
* Federal Circuit drama continues as Chief Judge Moore digs into 95-year-old Judge Newman’s ability to stay on the bench. Now, if we would adopt judicial term limits like a sensible country… [Bloomberg Law News]