Trump’s tax law set a flat 21 percent corporate tax rate, increasing the taxes paid by the smallest companies and decreasing the taxes paid by all the higher-earning corporations.
You can probably kiss that refund check you were hoping for goodbye.
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* Earlier this week, Justice Samuel Alito blocked a Louisiana abortion law, and now a divided Supreme Court has done the same, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining with the Court's liberals to protect women's right to choose without undue burdens. Justice Brett Kavanaugh penned the dissent -- so much for "precedent on precedent." [USA Today] * After some back and forth over the threat of a subpoena, Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker has agreed to testify publicly on the Mueller probe before the House Judiciary Committee bright and early tomorrow morning. [Washington Post] * "There’s no doubt that the talent wars in tax have definitely heated up." As it turns out, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is really living up to its name in that it's creating a lot of new jobs -- for tax lawyers and accountants, that is. [Wall Street Journal] * "I always thought of him as a good lawyer. I’m not so sure I think the same thing about him today." Now that he's serving as Trump's counsel, New York lawyers simply "don't understand" who the new and improved(?) Rudy Giuliani is. [Law.com] * Students at Harvard Law really want the school to continue its support of a pilot federal clerk hiring program that prevents judges from offering clerkships until applicants have completed their second year of school. [Harvard Crimson] * Lawyers representing Nick Sandmann, the Covington Catholic student who went viral after his run-in with a Native American elder during a D.C. protest, have sent an evidence-preservation letter to CNN prior to suing for defamation. [Daily Report]
For some, the the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act may not be as great as it sounded.