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* Want a popular policy done, but Congress is uncooperative? Enter Executive Orders. Joe Biden plans to issue one on gun background checks today. [Bloomberg Law]

* Can partisan gerrymandering get worse? Yes, yes it can. Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will reconsider the issue, which could have major repercussions for national politics. [Reuters]

* Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution provides protection against anti-trans discrimination. And I am sure completely coincidentally, a vocally anti-trans federal judge finds himself in the news. [Vox]

* Court issues blow to California labor movement: an appeals court found ride share services can classify drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. [Huffington Post]

* It’s not that law school deans want to end rankings, it’s that they want to make them better. [Slate]

* Michael Cohen takes the stand: Donald Trump’s one-time fixer is singing to a New York grand jury. [Law360]

* Loophole in Massachusetts law could leave Lyft and Uber drivers making $4.82 an hour. That would drive me crazy. [Business Insider]

* Two narcotics officers arrested for dealing fentanyl and accepting bribes. I’m sure they did so in self-defense, somehow. [Whio]

* Appeals court may be deciding if Guantanamo Bay detainees have due process rights. Prepare your Con Law outlines! [WaPo]

* Seattle continues to test if voting coupons could be the answer to funny money driving politics. [The Nation]

* Kodak and its CEO might be sued over insider trading that allegedly occurred just before the company announced a lucrative deal with the U.S. government. Maybe they figured regulators didn’t know the company still existed… [Wall Street Journal]

* Derek Chauvin’s lawyer denied that he leaked information about a rejected plea deal to the press. [Insider]

* A new lawsuit alleges that Montana is infringing on the rights of Native American voters. [New York Times]

* Rudy Giuliani’s legal team disputed the legitimacy of search warrants issued against the former Trump lawyer. [Wall Street Journal]

* The Supreme Court rejected Uber’s attempt to avoid a lawsuit over drivers’ pay. Guess the company is going to have to take the off ramp… [Reuters]

* A Yale Law professor who taught Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley claims his former students didn’t pay attention to his lessons. To be fair, law school lectures are usually kind of boring… [USA Today]

* President Trump is reportedly having a difficult time finding lawyers to represent him at his second impeachment trial. [Bloomberg Law]

* Here is some advice from a “lottery lawyer” in case any of you win the extremely high Mega Millions or Powerball jackpots over the weekend. [CBS News]

* A lawyer for a person accused of rioting at the Capitol last week says that President Trump should pardon his client. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

* The California Bar is evaluating new ways of delivering legal services. Would be interesting if Uber and Lyft got into the legal services delivery business… [Bloomberg Law]

* A California judge has approved some marijuana delivery services within the state. Guess Pineapple Express can now be expressly delivered, and you can get your weed and munchies delivered at the same time… [Los Angeles Times]

* Joe Biden might be considering Deval Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts, to be his Attorney General. [CBS Boston]

* A new lawsuit alleges that employees at a Waterloo, Iowa, meatpacking plant (a facility hit hard by the pandemic) took bets about how many workers would contract COVID-19. Seems pretty morbid. [CNN]

* A lawyer has been charged with multiple crimes for allegedly luring teenage girls to sleep with him in exchange for being their “sugar daddy.” [New York Post]

* A former Virginia attorney said that “I may have have made a mistake” after losing his law license for allegedly misappropriating millions from a client. Seems like an understatement… [CBS News]

* Trump’s talking about pardoning Manafort again. The power of the president to pardon people is clear, but the power of the president to tease a pardon to tamper with a witness is an interesting legal wrinkle. In a way, the pardon power is a Yoda conundrum: “do or do not, there is no publicly Tweeting signals.” [NPR]

* Speaking of Manafort, his attorneys claim their joint defense agreement covered his tipping off Trump on details of the Mueller investigation. Except… he pleaded guilty. That kind of ends the “joint defense” part. [The Hill]

* Jeffrey Epstein’s massive child sex ring allegations ended in a 13-month sentence and the prosecutor who bent over backward to protect him is now in Trump’s cabinet. Oh, and somehow Cy Vance’s obsequious starf**king ass shows up in this story because of course it does. [Miami Herald]

* It’s been a few days, so it’s time to remind everyone that the Big 4 accounting firms are about to wreak havoc on Biglaw. [American Lawyer]

* Stacey Abrams is suing over Georgia’s voting laws, and Professor Hasen is here to explain how brilliant this suit is. [Slate]

* Uber ordered to pay more than $1 million in fines because they failed to notice the surge pricing on data breach liability. [Corporate Counsel]

* Attorney poised to become godparent to royal baby. [Legal Cheek]

* The author of this piece is confused by how Republicans seem to completely misunderstand Section 230. It’s probably not confusing: they just want to kill it and lying about it is the easiest path. [The Verge]

* The Keystone Kops that are Trump’s legal team have rejected Mueller’s interview request and posed a counteroffer to answer only questions about the weather. [ABA Journal]

* If you’re getting tired of hearing that the Big 4 will soon come in and crush the rest of the legal landscape… well, too bad, because here’s the latest ominous development. [ALM Legal Intelligence]

* Rep. Chris Collins will continue to seek re-election after getting indicted. He must have some hot inside info on his re-election chances. [NBC]

* New York issues a wage base for Uber, Lyft, and other ride-share drivers. And then promptly squanders that good deed by putting a cap on licenses, artificially jacking up the price. [Law360]

* TIL there’s a Mexican condom cartel. Now all I can think about is a show like Queen of the South… but for condoms. [Corporate Counsel]

* Alex Jones’s lawyer is looking to dox the parents of the children killed at Sandy Hook because everyone involved with Alex Jones is an inhuman monster. [The Hill]

* The law requiring drivers to only use the left lane to pass is “routinely ignored by drivers” This story should read “routinely ignored by bad drivers.” [KRISTV]

* A quick primer on the key Judge Kavanaugh opinions to understand before this grueling process gets underway. [Law360]

* Dianne Feinstein hiring MoFo to vet Brett Kavanaugh. [The Recorder]

* After briefly flirting with looking outside the two schools, the Supreme Court will remain exclusively for people who attended either Yale or Harvard (including Justice Ginsburg, who transferred from Harvard). [Washington Post]

* Uber brings in top Justice Department attorney. [Wall Street Journal]

* Harvey Weinstein spared fate of living on Riker’s Island after judge lets him out on bail. Just like any random person accused of raping three women would be! [Mercury News]

* The Young Lawyer Editorial Board scolds profession for slow progress on diversity. This drive has to start somewhere and it may as well be at the firms since it’s increasingly clear that the law schools don’t have the courage to do it. [American Lawyer]

* Ty Cobb going to scum punk shows now. I have no joke for this. [The Hill]

* Is the Supreme Court about to take a right turn? With lengthy delays in issuing opinions and apparent infighting that’s leaked onto the bench during oral arguments, pundits think that the high court may soon become as “politically fractured as the rest of Washington.” [CNN]

* Speaking of SCOTUS, the justices spent an hour debating whether they should abandon the longstanding rule in Marks, which guides whose holding controls when the decision is split. [National Law Journal]

* New York, California, and several other states will sue to prevent the U.S. government from asking about citizenship status in the 2020 census whether people are citizens, contending that such a question could stop immigrants from participating and skew the makeup of Congress. [Reuters]

* Uber will pay $10 million to settle a discrimination class-action that was brought on behalf of hundreds of women and minority software engineers. [The Recorder]

* Remember the little boy who was decapitated while riding the world’s tallest water slide in 2016? The co-owner of the waterpark where it happened was arrested earlier this week and charged with second-degree murder. [New York Times]