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So excited that this morning brings @law360.bsky.social naming my partner J.A. Sagar and good pal David Feder to its annual Rising Star list in Appellate law. t.co/gYM20xOXUa

Summer associates: Leave a handwritten note for the people you worked with most closely. I save every one.

Well, this will be a heck of a read. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the KneePaul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...www.nytimes.com

Why won't Taylor Swift speak out about the dangers of parasocial relationships?

Wow. I have never seen DOJ so thoroughly toss a client agency under the bus.

Important evening meetings.

Public Defender, picking up a new file: "I know that the threats statute looks scary, but the First Amendment is an important check. It has to be a true threat." Defendant: "I said 'This is a direct threat.' " Public Defender: "Ah, well, let's see what they're offering on a plea."

CASEY. A Christopher Nolan film about a man at war with the pitcher, with society's expectations, and with . . . himself.

This is the redaction equivalent of the indictments that said stuff like "Person 1, who was President of the United States at the relevant time."

In an example of Loper-Bright making a difference, the D.C. Circuit Friday held that the NLRB's "successor bar," which requires a new owner of a business to recognize an existing union for one year after assuming control (even if the union does not command majority support) violates the NLRA. /1

"Midvale School for the Gifted," I say every time someone pushes on a pull door, as if the reference is obvious to everyone.

This EO is trying to avoid a direct clash, but it's creeping towards a day an 8-member #SCOTUS (with the Chief recused because he's the Smithsonian's Chancellor) is going to have to decide whether the Smithsonian exercises executive power under Slaughter. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian InstitutionBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy. Onwww.whitehouse.gov

Truly an incredible fall for a pioneer in the #SCOTUS bar. Gambling is bad and addictive; I really can't recommend it.

(Being held at gunpoint by Google's trademark lawyers, who are just off camera.) "Have you considered looking that information up using a Google-brand electronic information location service, fellow citizen?"

My favorite thing in my job is the paper edit of a brief. When you've got the structure and basic arguments down and can print it out, take a pen, and spot the multitude of little things that collectively take a brief from "good" to "singing."