* “It’ll never happen. I guarantee it won’t happen for six years.” Contrary to what Democratic presidential candidates are suggesting, President Trump doesn’t want anything to do with expanding the size of the Supreme Court. [Reuters]
* As it turns out, special counsel Robert Mueller was investigating Michael Cohen much sooner than he originally led on, and the Cohen probe was handed off to the S.D.N.Y. long before campaign-finance violations were even discovered. [Wall Street Journal]
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* Thanks to a record-setting $10.5 million gift, Georgetown Law is expanding its campus. The school recently purchased a 130,000-square-foot building for $70 million and plans to use the new space as a home for all of its clinical progams. [National Law Journal]
* Congratulations to Michèle Alexandre, who was recently appointed as dean of Stetson University College of Law. She will be the school’s first black dean in history. [Philadelphia Tribune]
* Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been offered a pre-trial diversion deal on his solicitation charge. All he has to do is admit he would’ve been found guilty, do 100 hours of community service, and attend a class on the dangers of prostitution. [AP News]
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