Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.29.26

* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 "U"s: "unlawful,” “unethical” and “unseemly” conduct. [Pro Publica] * Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell. [NY Times] * Judge orders immigration authorities to release man they'd kept under lock and key ever since he witnessed ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. [Texas Tribune] * The Comey indictment is somehow even more flimsy than we all thought. [Empty Wheel] * D.C. Circuit won't strike down the Trump plan to use Post Office to block mail-in votes from Democratic states until he actually does something. So we're going to wait until it actually becomes a logistical disaster to do anything about it. [Courthouse News Service] * Judiciary Committee Republicans ask Blanche to commit to more aggressive assault on reproductive rights. [Balls and Strikes] * Administration erases right to a hearing from asylum language -- plans to send seekers directly to deportation processing. [Washington Post] * Talc case parties present $5.5 billion settlement deal. [Law360]

* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 “U”s: “unlawful,” “unethical” and “unseemly” conduct. [Pro Publica]

* Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell. [NY Times]

* Judge orders immigration authorities to release man they’d kept under lock and key ever since he witnessed ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. [Texas Tribune]

* The Comey indictment is somehow even more flimsy than we all thought. [Empty Wheel]

* D.C. Circuit won’t strike down the Trump plan to use Post Office to block mail-in votes from Democratic states until he actually does something. So we’re going to wait until it actually becomes a logistical disaster to do anything about it. [Courthouse News Service]

* Judiciary Committee Republicans ask Blanche to commit to more aggressive assault on reproductive rights. [Balls and Strikes]

* Administration erases right to a hearing from asylum language — plans to send seekers directly to deportation processing. [Washington Post]

* Talc case parties present $5.5 billion settlement deal. [Law360]