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 Hunter Biden's plea deal fell apart. [Politico] Asa Hutchinson understands the 14th Amendment, thinks Donald Trump is likely disqualified from running for president. [The Hill]
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's now official. [Legaltech News] Yes, you can lose your job for posting about committing vehicular manslaughter against Black people. [Reuters] Supreme Court could improve its legitimacy by hewing closer to rigorous policy analysis. They can't even do rigorous historical analysis, how are they supposed to do rigorous policy analysis? [Milken Institute Review] Before getting indicted for joining criminal coup-spiracy, Ken Chesebro was a Larry Tribe research assistant.
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 reticence to hand over medical records of a cardiac event as the key justification to ban her from the court. Which fails their own twisted rationale since a risk of heart attack has no bearing on a judge's faculties. But in any event, they're cardiologists now, too. [Law360] It took a matter of hours for Trump supporters to publicly circulate the names and addresses of Georgia grand jurors. [NBC] By nixing student loan forgiveness, the Supreme Court likely also jacked the market