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Don’t Play Lawyerball With The Referee: Supreme Court majority tried to give “deporting people to war zones” the Drive-Thru treatment, but Justice Sotomayor turned the tables.

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Emhoff Class Is In Session: Maybe the Willkie lawyer is looking for an employer that isn’t planning to sell itself off to Trump.

Ma’am This Is An Arby’s (If The Arby’s Was A Contract Claim): Penn Law’s Amy Wax brought her First Amendment argument to a contract dispute and it went about as you’d expect.

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* Supreme Court greenlights deportations to third countries without an opportunity to argue that maybe it violates their rights to drop them into a warzone. [AP]

* Here’s a rundown of that case if you’re interested in all the nuances. [Lawfare]

* Profile of Mexico’s most powerful indigenous lawyer, new Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz. [NY Times]

* Simpson Thacher hyping its tech deals… basically anything to make you forget that they’re deputized to the Trump administration. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Ninth Circuit strikes down California law limiting people to one gun purchase per month. “[W]e doubt anyone would think government could limit citizens’ free speech right to one protest a month…” which is true and probably why the First Amendment doesn’t have the word “regulated” right there in its text. [ABA Journal]

* Media Matters files suit after FTC jumped in to harass the organization to help out Elon. [Reuters]

* Doug Emhoff joining USC Law as a visiting professor. [Law.com]

* Florida Republican nearly died because of abortion law she supports… but she blames the Democrats so it’s all OK.[Yahoo]

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