Sam Alito sighed and said he absolutely could have made a better argument (Spoiler: he couldn’t have): Alito broke Supreme Court protocol this week to complain from the bench that Sotomayor’s dissent made him look bad for gutting Holocaust-era asylum protections Mullin v. On the other side.
Everybody likes to live by the sword until the sword turns: As star partners rake in packages approaching $40 million, consultants estimate that 10 to 30 percent of partners are heading into mid-year reviews with a pay cut coming, because Lockstep’s replacement is a system that concentrates rewards at the top and someone has to be at the bottom.
Ben Sasse is either totally clueless or the funniest man alive: Former senator argues adding cameras could make the Supreme Court look political.
Stan Woodward sends the judge a very strong note; Judge returns scheduling order: Stan Woodward, the DOJ’s go-to sign for its most embarrassing cases, sent a two-page “notice” informing Judge Leonie Brinkema that her recent order was “unnecessary.” She wasn’t amused.
The weakest praise money can’t buy: Bill Barr wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he said Todd Blanche should be confirmed as AG because he “will lead the department.” as efficiently as anyone could under President Trump.
The swamp is real and it’s at the Lincoln Memorial: Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars to paint the Reflecting Pool blue, and now Jeanine Pirro’s Justice Department is arresting citizens for the president’s failures to maintain the pool.
Trump’s Favorite Law Firm Loves Pay Raise: Sullivan & Cromwell – Donald Trump’s favorite law firm these days – has apparently aligned itself with Milbank’s new pay scale.
The machine had the correct answer; The Court had the law: An AI transcript accidentally made a defendant’s question: “Do I need a lawyer here?” ambiguous? as a clear invocation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel, but the judge decided it wasn’t THAT clear and evaporated the defendant’s Miranda rights.
The law review article that made me laugh (once, then twice when he explained the joke): An article in the Vermont Law Review argues that humor improves legal pedagogy and retention, is funny enough in itself to prove the thesis, and then undermines its own credibility by following up two of its best jokes with “See what I did there?” – which is, somewhat poetically, a lesson in the importance of timing.
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