Ted Cruz

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.15.21

* A Yale Law professor who taught Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley claims his former students didn't pay attention to his lessons. To be fair, law school lectures are usually kind of boring... [USA Today] * President Trump is reportedly having a difficult time finding lawyers to represent him at his second impeachment trial. [Bloomberg Law] * Here is some advice from a "lottery lawyer" in case any of you win the extremely high Mega Millions or Powerball jackpots over the weekend. [CBS News] * A lawyer for a person accused of rioting at the Capitol last week says that President Trump should pardon his client. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * The California Bar is evaluating new ways of delivering legal services. Would be interesting if Uber and Lyft got into the legal services delivery business... [Bloomberg Law]

By Jordan Rothman
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By Barbri
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 09.14.20

* A PA lawyer has been sentenced to prison for allegedly stealing client funds to purchase (among other things) tickets to Superbowl LII in which the Eagles beat the Patriots. Maybe it was worth it to see Tom Brady lose... [Lehigh Valley Live] * A lawyer at the Department of Labor has been reassigned after accusing the Secretary of Labor of retaliation. [Bloomberg Law] * New details have surfaced about the Chicago attorney couple who were found stabbed to death in their home earlier this year. [Chicago Tribune] * Senator Ted Cruz is another potential Supreme Court pick on President Trump's most recent list to indicate he has no desire to serve on the high court. [CNN] * An employee at the Washington State Attorney General's Office has been put on administrative leave after leaving a note on a restaurant check that read: "BLM pin = no tip." [Spokesman-Review] * A contractor is in legal hot water for allegedly fleecing a congregation of $454,000 to build a church and then performing little work. The contractor should be most afraid of getting struck by lighting or something like that... [Stamford Advocate]

By Jordan Rothman
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.05.19

* Ted Cruz is threatening Yale Law School because that's the sort of shallow posturing Ted Cruz has made a career out of. [Washington Examiner] * Clarence Thomas says he's not going to retire just so Trump can replace him proving that narcissistic hubris is truly bipartisan. [National Law Journal] * Being a jerk on an airplane is now worth 6 months in jail. Make a note of it. [Legal Cheek] * The SEC thinks it's time for some real fines on Elon Musk. [Law360] * Trump just installed another zygote to the federal bench, even though he was born in one of the Mexican countries. [Miami Herald] * Just a reminder that legislators are mostly stuffed shirts pocketing lobbyist cash. [USA Today]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.02.19

* "I am managing partner Clifford Chance and I just need your help and bank account to move my book of business out of the country." [Legal Cheek] * Biglaw age discrimination suit moves forward. [New York Law Journal] * Teddy Cruz sues to challenge law to prevent the kind of campaign from doing the entirely shady thing his campaign wants to do. [Courthouse News Service] * Even GOP lawyers think killing Obamacare is a terrible idea. [Huffington Post] * Law school deans stepping down all over the place. [Law.com] * The Mueller investigation may be over, but we can still have fun playing "Guess the Mystery Subpoena!" [National Law Journal] * Kasowitz losing real estate partners but insists there's nothing to see here. [American Lawyer] * Racist algorithms in the crosshairs. [Law360]

By Joe Patrice
Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 01.07.19

* Senator Ted Cruz has proposed a constitutional amendment that would set term limits for those in the Senate (two six-year terms) and House of Representatives (three two-year terms) because "[t]erm limits on members of Congress offer a solution to the brokenness we see in Washington, D.C." [Business Insider] * Speaking of terms, the grand jury's 18-month term in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation was set to expire this past weekend, but Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the D.C. District Court extended it for up to six months since the jurors' work is "in the public interest." [CNN] * The federal judiciary has enough money to stay afloat until January 11, and then, per a spokesman for the U.S. courts, "[i]t’s really a judge-by-judge, court-by-court determination" when the courts start operating under the Antideficiency Act "to support the exercise of Article III judicial power." [Fortune] * Hot on the heels of its decision that a ban on racist trademark registrations violated the First Amendment, the Supreme Court will decide whether a similar ban on "scandalous" marks is unconstitutional as well. [Law360] * Do we need a Rooney Rule for federal law clerks? According to Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California, it might be the solution to increasing the amount of diversity -- of people of color and of law school representation -- in the clerks' candidate pool. We'll have more on this later today. [National Law Journal]

By Staci Zaretsky