* Eric Adams case finally dropped and it seems like the move came after a soon-to-retire DOJ official signed off in order to give colleagues — likely planning to resign in protest over this — time to look for new jobs. Find yourself a coworker like that. [NY Times]
* Time for some Unitary Executive theory as Trump takes fight to fire independent agency heads to the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law News]
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* Judgment day for J&J baby powder settlement. [Reuters]
* Every firm is poachable now. [American Lawyer]
* Trump administration exerts pressure on Romanian officials to lift restrictions on accused sex traffickers because they’re Trump fans. [Sky News]
* Ilya Somin pens takedown of the New York Times’ “hey we don’t actually have legal support for this, but what if the Fourteenth Amendment really didn’t include birthright citizenship” article. [Volokh Conspiracy]
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* NLRB lawyer begins dismantling labor protections. [Law360]