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Morning Docket: 07.09.26

* Trump asks Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case, in case the English language has changed since last week. [CNBC]

* Judge Ross denies recusal request in civil case based on the claim that she barely supervised clerks on her civil docket. Or maybe her clerk denied the request. [Bloomberg Law News]

* State AGs finalize antitrust suit over Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. [CNN]

* ABA wants to see more Trump admin documents surrounding Biglaw intimidation campaign. [Law360]

* Judge refers to Smartmatic case as “The Most Whack-a-Mole of All of My Cases,” which is true to the extent Whack-a-Mole is a game about malicious prosecution. [Daily Business Review]

* AI founder admits role in the big Biglaw insider trading scheme. [ABA Journal]

* Judge Dugan fined but not sentenced to any prison time over conviction for not allowing ICE to nab people from her courtroom. [NY Times]

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You, Sir, Have The Boorish Manners Of A Yalie!: Yale Law School is trying to convince the university that settling with Donald Trump has literally never worked in the history of ever.

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.08.26

* Yale Law School is working behind the scenes to convince Yale University to stop trying to cut a deal with the Trump administration citing threat to rule of law. [NY Times]

* Latham cleaning up on AI power demands. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Former Wisconsin judge faces sentencing for refusing to allow ICE to use her courtroom to kidnap migrants. [Reuters]

* Biglaw pro bono chill may be thawing a bit. [American Lawyer]

* DOJ sent letters to threatening to prosecute election officials if noncitizens vote. Which they won’t, since we’ve had years of investigations unable to prove it even happens in any significant way. [NBC News]

* Eleventh Circuit strikes higher education provision in Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act, with Trump appointee writing for the court “[i]f the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.” [ACLU]

* Government wants judge to stop release of documents covering Todd Blanche’s role in Epstein coverup currently due right before his confirmation hearing. [The New Republic]

* Kalshi loses effort to keep New York from treating it as a gambling site. Because it is… a gambling site. [Law360]