Opening the doors (to push people out): K&L Gates has cut about 10% of its business services staff: accounting, marketing and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the company. Fifty-four Minutes of U.S. Attorney Fame: Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney and was fired by the administration fifty-four minutes later, exonerated for the same game of first assistant shellacking that continues to render indictments worthless. Crystal-Balling The Next Rankings Circus: Pepperdine’s Paul Caron crunched the ABA numbers to project the 2027 rankings of U.S. law schools, and the suspense is whether Yale — knocked out of the top spot for the first time this year — can claw its way back. The unitary executive theory walks on a rake: After successfully convincing the Supreme Court to endorse the idea that Donald Trump controls everything the government does – except the Fed – a federal judge cited this directly to him about his attempt to sue the federal government to grant himself a total discharge and give his friends a slush fund. Always get indicted: The Justice Department has told all 93 U.S. attorney’s offices that each attorney general must keep at least 25 cases open at any given time. No honor among the capitulators: The DOJ hit the nine Biglaw firms that bought their way out of Trump’s executive orders with subpoenas and deposition notices, demanding their communications with Boris Epshteyn and dragging down the hard-line executives who signed the $940 million deals to avoid this in the first place. Welcome to the Gaslight District: Legal experts who reviewed Kathryn Ruemmler’s closed-door House Oversight testimony about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein called it “classic gaslighting.” Speaking of Gaslighting: Amy Coney Barrett, who once told the public to “read the opinion” before judging the Court, has informed Congress that it is inappropriate to expect the Justices to actually explain their phantom opinions. Recuse me while the entire bench gives up: A lawsuit seeking to block Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming dean of the Kentucky Law School because of professors’ objections was thrown upstairs after each justice acknowledged a conflict in a case against their colleague.
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