* Immediately after John Bolton lost his job, a true genius tweeted that he’d signed with the Patriots. It looks like he might return to Kirkland which is basically the same thing in legal circles. [National Law Journal]
* Supreme Court decides government can circumvent international law while asylum rules get litigated. Cool. [NY Times]
* Dentons just added five firms across Africa in one day. [American Lawyer]

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* “Chief Counsel of Digital Citizenship” is an actual title a major company came up with for a lawyer presumably after spinning the buzzword wheel. [Corporate Counsel]
* Latest appellate judge pick was so mealy-mouthed and evasive that even the Republicans snapped at him before they’ll ultimately vote down the line to give the racist myth peddling jackhole a lifetime job. [Huffington Post]
* Former Big 4 partner gets a year for fraud. [Law360]

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* What exactly would happen if California stood up for college athletes? [Sports Illustrated]
* John Hinckley seeks sentence adjustment so he can move to California and get into the music business which is a sentence no one ever expected. [AP]