Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.18.26

* Missouri's Republican leadership have given up on their gerrymandered map following two explicit benchslaps from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Eighth Circuit, however, says "hold my beer." [Politico] * Second Circuit rules that the Fourth Amendment does not cover warrantless cell phone searches at customs, which seems... not what the Framers intended. [Law & Crime] * LSU's near disastrous legal conflict with the SEC was driven, in part, by head coach Lane Kiffin using ChatGPT to make legal strategy decisions. [ESPN] * Sonia Sotomayor flags unitary executive theory as an attack on checks and balances. [Bloomberg Law News] * Death penalty carried out despite jury explicitly voting for a life sentence. [EJI] * Lawsuit against Donald Trump reveals that he might not actually own properties he claims to own. This is... not actually shocking. [BBC] * Judge orders administration to give 30 days notice before tearing down the Kennedy Center, which the president plans to do if it's not renamed after him. That's a real sentence we had to write. [NPR] * And, apparently, Robert Kraft is secretly making sure the Kennedy Center story doesn't get a happy ending. [Boston Globe]

* Missouri’s Republican leadership have given up on their gerrymandered map following two explicit benchslaps from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Eighth Circuit, however, says “hold my beer.” [Politico]

* Second Circuit rules that the Fourth Amendment does not cover warrantless cell phone searches at customs, which seems… not what the Framers intended. [Law & Crime]

* LSU’s near disastrous legal conflict with the SEC was driven, in part, by head coach Lane Kiffin using ChatGPT to make legal strategy decisions. [ESPN]

* Sonia Sotomayor flags unitary executive theory as an attack on checks and balances. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Death penalty carried out despite jury explicitly voting for a life sentence. [EJI]

* Lawsuit against Donald Trump reveals that he might not actually own properties he claims to own. This is… not actually shocking. [BBC]

* Judge orders administration to give 30 days notice before tearing down the Kennedy Center, which the president plans to do if it’s not renamed after him. That’s a real sentence we had to write. [NPR]

* And, apparently, Robert Kraft is secretly making sure the Kennedy Center story doesn’t get a happy ending. [Boston Globe]