* How do the candidates on Trump's short list thing stack up on campaign finance? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Yeah, the electoral college was never going to save us. [Slate]
* Newt Gingrich wants Donald Trump to pardon his advisors that break the law. [Salon]
* Judge Aaron Persky has been cleared of misconduct in connection with the lenient sentence given to Brock Turner, the Stanford University athlete who was convicted of sexual assault. [Jezebel]
* Will the Trump administration spell the end for many law schools? [Law and More]
* A software glitch is leading to false arrests in California. [Ars Technica]
* Want to know what they call the Supreme Court attorney who deals with requests for stays of execution? The death clerk. Paging John Grisham, because this guy’s nickname would make a great book title. [New York Times]
* “If you’re going to sue, it’s better to sue earlier rather than later.” Probably why battleground states like Florida, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are in a tizzy over their election laws. [Washington Post]
* WikiLeaks or it didn’t happen: Bradley Manning’s lawyer has demanded that seven years be cut from his client’s prospective sentence due to allegations of improper treatment while in military custody. [The Guardian]
* Michigan Law’s Sarah Zearfoss, she of Wolverine Scholars fame, finds media coverage about the awful job market for recent law grads “really frustrating.” Try being unemployed. [Crain's Detroit Business (reg. req.)]
* Kris Humphries is being sued for allegedly giving a girl herpes. But alas, the plaintiff seems to have no idea who actually gave her the herp — four John Doe defendants are identified in the complaint, too. [Star Tribune]
* “Given the police idiocy, one wonders where the boobs really are.” A nude model who was arrested during a body-painting exhibition in Times Square won a $15K false-arrest settlement from the cops. [New York Post]
