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* Want a popular policy done, but Congress is uncooperative? Enter Executive Orders. Joe Biden plans to issue one on gun background checks today. [Bloomberg Law] * Can partisan gerrymandering get worse? Yes, yes it can. Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will reconsider the issue, which could have major repercussions for national politics. [Reuters] * Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution provides protection against anti-trans discrimination. And I am sure completely coincidentally, a vocally anti-trans federal judge finds himself in the news. [Vox] * Court issues blow to Cali...

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* Some lawyers out there are getting paid for putting together the most financially significant $1.20 deal ever. [Law360] * Barney Frank, whose nameesake regulations could have prevented the recent bank collapses and then lobbied to support Trump administration efforts to relax those same regulations, sits on the board of now-collapsed Signature Bank. D'oh. [Twitter] * But Frank isn't blaming the regulatory rollback he supported. He's blaming crypto. I guess just because it's fake money supported by libertarian fever dreams and Ponzi schemes. Though that does force one to a...

* Baylor Law School out of compliance with ABA standards. [KWTX] * But the good news is that some other schools are back in compliance! [ABA Journal] * O'Melveney explains how expansion pushed them into a billion-dollar firm this year. We've said this before, but as we wait for the Am Law 200, make note of these stories because it's "the notes they're not playing" -- every peer firm that's not rushing to tell their story to the American Lawyer right now is probably sitting on some iffy numbers. [Law.com] * Police charging attorney observer from the SPLC with ...

* Sam Bankman-Fried allowed to carry flip phone. Cue the Eighth Amendment. Just give him a rotary phone and be done with it. [Reuters] * Former inspector general revisits the Supreme Court's "oops, I mean, we talked to the justices 'about' the investigation but I cannot say that they were part 'of' the investigation" effort, and ruminates on how unbelievably inept this is. [The Atlantic] * George Conway is getting a divorce from Kellyanne confirming that marriage requires more than one person with a foot in reality. [CNN] * Starbucks' labor troubles have...