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(Photo by Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via Getty Images)* Judge Luttig joined the chorus calling for stricter Supreme Court ethics -- a

* Science confirms that legal writing is terrible. [AAAS] * Maryland judge benchslapped for using Beowulf and Whistler's Mother to import racist stereotypes into an opinion. As racism goes, it's a very erudite version. Much more National Review than Daily Caller. [ABA Journal] * House Oversight Committee is probing FTC Chair for pursuing the policies she said she would pursue before getting the job. Really scrounging the bottom of the barrel these days... go back to Hunter Biden's laptop or something. At least it was interesting. [Reuters] * Speaking of Hunter Biden, he's s...

* Biglaw continues to grow despite lagging demand. Is it bad planning or do the firms realize that this recession-that-isn't is never going to arrive? [American Lawyer] * The good news: Congress remembered that jurisdiction stripping is a real power that they have! The bad news: they're using it to clear the deck for one of Joe Manchin's pork barrel projects. [American Prospect] * Ninth Circuit swoops into ongoing sex trafficking trial before judge could allow defense lawyers to ask victims about prior prostitution arrests. Look at those go-getters on the Ninth Circuit refusing ...

* When the Supreme Court tried to deflect the heat from Clarence Thomas taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts, the justices signed an ethics pinky swear. Alito breached it within the month. [Slate] * Corporate legal departments are hiring smaller law firms to save money. I swear we wrote this exact same story... the last time there was a whiff of rate hikes only to have everything return to normal in a year. [Corporate Counsel] * Sam Bankman-Fried preparing to blame Fenwick & West for everything. [Fortune] * Texas lawmakers unveil new anti-ESG laws to limit insurance carriers fr...

* LSAT lives to fight another day as ABA halts its new rule to make the exam optional in the admissions process. Nothing inspires confidence like an ac