There’s no government service like self-service: The Senate-confirmed DOJ official charged with selling the slush fund to Congress quietly tried to recuse himself from that job so he could file his own personal claim against the fund. The Bar Tab Comes Due: Assistant Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who signed off on the slush fund that allegedly paid his own former clients, now faces a D.C. bar complaint. All the blatant news: The New York Times editorial board has laid out four reasons why Todd Blanche should not be confirmed as attorney general. Morning tarpaulin: A DC Circuit panel denied the stay, the scaffolding was reassembled and Trump’s name left the Kennedy Center under the cover of tarpaulins deployed at 1:30 a.m. in front of an enthusiastic crowd. Not so: The Supreme Court refused to consider due process issues surrounding 98-year-old Justice Pauline Newman, who was suspended by her own colleagues without the constitutionally required impeachment process. Stacking the deck: A new study of 146 federal judges finds that clerkship stacking has turned a one-year launching pad into a multi-year arms race for degrees that the judges feeding it freely admit is broken. Gone Phishin’: Lewis Brisbois ordered his remote staff to return to the office after a cyberattack. He said, she said: Running the same Biglaw resume through Gemini under a man’s name and a woman’s name turned an identical experience into a “broadcast” for Thomas and a downgrade for Vivian, who also saw her $700 million contract reduced to $700.
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