Federal magistrate judge Zia M. Faruqui is not happy about Donald Trump’s authoritarian takeover of Washington D.C. — and the resulting disrespect for basic constitutional rights. Yesterday in his courtroom was the case of Torez Riley, a Black man charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. Riley was on his was on his way to […]
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* After Supreme Court conservatives invented a whole new legal standard to prevent Trump from firing Federal Reserve governors, Trump claims — without much support — to have fired Federal Reserve governor. Stocks react… predictably. [WSJ] * Trump also explained that he’s suing over the Senate’s use of blue slips. And like the worst 1L […]
Never Too Young For Aggressive Negotiations: Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland and Young Conaway play dirty. They’ve Arrested Abrego Garcia Again: He just got back and now they’re trying to send him to Uganda. Trump Appeals Biglaw Executive Order Loss: He’s got people on the inside — why wouldn’t he? Pauline Newman Denied Appeal Bid: Wouldn’t it […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Today Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia — poster boy for the Trump administration’s slapdash approach to deportations — with a plan to send him to (of all places) Uganda. Which Biglaw firm filed a habeas corpus petition (which […]
(Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images) Intel just agreed to give the federal government a roughly 10 percent ownership stake. It’s reportedly a common stock deal that binds the federal government to vote with the board unless the board is voting to undermine the deal itself. The deal is a payoff for the CHIPS […]
No test, no problem! The LSAT has been the staple box to tick off if you want to get in to law school, but it hasn’t been a hard requirement for every school. The ABA is inviting law schools to laxen up the application requirements by inviting schools to give students more time to apply […]
The “blue slip” tradition, requiring home state senator approval for judicial nominees, is back in the news. If the tradition of getting senators to sign off on a president’s judicial nominees — potentially of another political party — seems like it’s from a bygone era, well, you’re not entirely wrong. During Trump’s first term in […]
This [Husch Blackwell’s fully virtual office, The Link] is working. We figured it out. And I think that people who are most frustrated are the people who were so successful and then enjoyed some of the benefits of it, and now their companies and their firms are saying, ‘well, we don’t care. We want you […]
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