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* Depressed about how awful the Supreme Court is right now? Maybe it's not the worst. I mean it's still bad, but there's room for hope. [Vox] * AI is not an artist. Judge reject copyright for AI generated artwork. [Law360] * Biden administration wants to be able to block you. The Solicitor General will argue to the Supreme Court that government officials that blocker social media users on their own personal accounts do not violate the First Amendment. [Law.com] * So, this is how H...

* Noticed the big changes in US News law school rankings? Heres your primer. [Reuters]* When pigs cause splits: Who knew pork could fragment SCOTUS s

* White House Counsel Stuart Delery is leaving the job next month. Where will the revolving door land? Probably Gibson Dunn. [Law360] * State judge blocks Texas law that barred Houston -- and only Houston -- from running its local elections after the city started electing Black women. [AP] * NY Times mulls suing OpenAI to prevent GPT from learning how to compose whataboutism takes that put David Brooks out of a job. [NPR] * We knew Thomson Reuters planned to buy Casetext for $650 million. It&#03...

* Leonard Leo used his Federalist Society contacts to secure $1.6 billion donation, which Politico suggests might

* Fifth Circuit judges anoint themselves pharmaceutical scientists to determine that the FDA probably didn't understand mifepristone when its scientists exercised their statutory and regulatory authority. So now judges are historians, neurologists, and drug scientists. Yale and Harvard JDs really prepare you to be jackasses of all trades! [Reuters] * Speaking of judges acting as neurologists, the Federal Circuit backtracked to avoid that charge and cited Judge Pauline Newman's reticenc...

* Judge Edith Jones writes a letter to the Wall Street Journal blasting the Federal Circuit's actions to sideline Judge Pauline Newman. [Wall Street Journal] * Blind Side subject Michael Oher has filed to end the conservatorship of the couple he lived with. Oher alleges that he believed he was being adopted when in reality he handed over substantial financial rights and no one checked for almost two decades. [Bloomberg Law News] * Black lawyer says he was handcuffed while a judge ordered hi...

* Keep track of who's who in the latest indictment. [Politico] * Meanwhile, Abbe Lowell and Winston & Strawn have stepped up their collective role in the Hunter Biden case, arguing that the original plea agreement included binding government promises that didn't evaporate just because the judge rejected the deal. [Law360] * CFPB going after data brokers selling people's personal data. Yet again, the government agency making the most direct, tangible impact for people is the on...

* It took a couple of days, but Donald Trump has blown off Judge Chutkan's warning that further public attacks on the proceedings would result in accelerating the existing January trial schedule. At the rate he's going, expect the trial next week! [Politico] * Meanwhile, in Georgia, prosecutors apparently have messages directly tying Trump's legal team to voting system breach. [CNN] * Florida Bar proposes allowing law school grads to engage in limited practice before passing the b...

* Another day, another several hundred grand worth of unethical and undisclosed gifts for Clarence Thomas. [ProPublica] * ABA encouraging law firms to redouble efforts to expand diversity... before the Supreme Court makes it illegal. [Bloomberg Law News] * Lawsuit alleges private attorney took on upwards of 600 indigent client criminal cases, collecting huge sums from the city, and then not doing any work. That's not totally true... the lawsuit alleges that the lawyer was quite diligent abo...

* Can you avoid discovery by saying, "the dog ate my homework"? Asking for a Rudy Giuliani. [Guardian] * Anti-porn legislation is "Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat." Impressed with the restraint it took not to say "pull out." [Politico] * Ohio voters reject effort to game the rules. [Courthouse News Service] * Shareholders approved fewer ESG proposals this year because they're fickle cowards. [Corporate Counsel] * Starbucks can't fire people just fo...