Where’s
the
food?
Midlevels
would
love
to
know.
Can
lunch
save
professional
civility?
Almost
assuredly
not,
but
one
judge
is
going
to
try.
Partnership
isn’t
what
it
used
to
be.
Instead
of
long
careers
with
equity
ownership,
partners
are
making
lateral
jumps
with
more
frequency
than
ever.
More
out
of
the
murder
of
a
Kentucky
judge
earlier
this
year…
“running
a
brothel
out
of
that
courtroom”
sounds
ominous.
Back
in
2010,
I
was
in
law
school,
discovering,
to
my
great
surprise,
that
I
actually
liked
the
class
Federal
Income
Taxation.
One
of
the
hot
topics
in
tax
law
at
the
time
was
the
Bipartisan
Tax
Fairness
and
Simplification
Act
of
2010.
Even
though
just
about
everybody
agreed
that
a
simplified
tax
code
would
be
better,
“just
about
everybody”
did
not
include
the
multibillion-dollar
tax
prep
industry.
The
Bipartisan
Tax
Fairness
and
Simplification
Act
of
2010
never
became
law.
It
died
the
tragic
death
of
a
good
idea
in
Congress.
Fast
forward
to
2024,
with
Elon
Musk
set
to
take
over
the
faux
governmental
agency
DOGE
in
the
New
Year.
Musk
claimed
in
a
post
on
his
website
X
that
simplifying
the
tax
code
would
“increase
productivity”
and
prevent
“bizarre
tax-avoidance
behavior.”
Nobody
knows
the
full
details
of
what
Musk
is
proposing,
but
it
seems
like
a
big
part
of
it
would
be
eliminating
a
number
of
deductions
and
cutting
down
from
the
current
seven
income-based
tax
brackets
to
something
like
two
or
three.
Hm,
now
where
have
I
heard
these
proposals
before?
Oh,
that’s
right:
the
Bipartisan
Tax
Fairness
and
Simplification
Act
of
2010,
which
suggested
three
tax
brackets
and
a
higher
standard
deduction
but
elimination
of
many
of
the
highly
specific
deductions
for
special
interest
groups.
And
you
know
what?
That’s
just
fine.
If
Musk
wants
to
take
credit
for
coming
up
with
the
idea
of
simplifying
the
tax
code,
and
if
Donald
Trump
can
actually
get
what
seem
to
be
good
ideas
for
doing
that
through
a
Congress
that
he
is
going
to
control,
great.
Let’s
not
cut
off
our
nose
to
spite
our
face
here.
Trump
himself
has
recently
proposed
(he
did
bring
this
up
previously
in
2019)
ending
daylight
saving
time.
He
promised
that
the
Republican
Party
would
try
to
“eliminate”
the
semiannual
clock
changes.
Once
more
we
have
a
good
idea
here.
Not
an
original
idea,
by
any
means.
But
who
cares?
The
Republican
Party
will
control
both
houses
of
Congress
and
the
White
House
in
2025,
so
if
it
really
wants
to
kill
daylight
saving
time,
it
should
have
no
problem
doing
so.
This
would
benefit
all
of
us.
Another
DOGE
development
is
Musk’s
criticism
of
wasteful
spending
at
the
Pentagon
and
private
defense
contractors’
abuse
of
an
overly
inflated
budget
—
ironic,
perhaps,
in
that
Musk’s
own
companies
have
secured
billions
in
Defense
Department
contracts.
Irony
aside,
this
stance
has
earned
Musk
some
potential
progressive
allies,
including
Vermont
Senator
Bernie
Sanders
who
said
Musk
was
“right”
about
excessive
defense
spending.
Sanders
claimed
that
the
Pentagon
“lost
track
of
billions”
and
that
the
“defense
budget
[is]
full
of
waste
and
fraud.”
Wedging
apart
a
commercial
defense
industry
and
a
military
that
are
more
tightly
entwined
than
two
unchaperoned
teens
at
the
Snow
Daze
dance,
and
saving
some
tax
dollars
while
you’re
at
it,
is
hardly
a
new
concept.
This
one’s
so
old
that
Dwight
Eisenhower
talked
about
it
in
his
farewell
address.
Of
course,
the
problem
with
good,
though
unoriginal,
ideas
is
that
someone
has
already
tried
and
failed
to
implement
them.
Musk’s
experience
running
his
own
companies
as
an
executive
is
very
different
than
whipping
votes
in
Congress.
We’ll
see
how
much
sway
DOGE
has
over
Congresspeople
once
a
small
army
of
corporate
lobbyists
in
service
to
the
tax
prep
and
defense
industries
descend
upon
them.
Can
any
of
this
actually
get
done?
DOGE
definitely
has
its
skeptics.
Yet,
Trump
has
one
thing
going
for
him.
Although
Trump’s
lip
service
to
unifying
the
country
has
been
utterly
laughable,
there
is
no
doubt
that
he’s
succeeded
wildly
in
unifying
the
Republican
Party
—
namely
unifying
it
in
doing
whatever
Trump
tells
it
to
do.
With
almost
every
extant
Republican
a
proven
Trump
loyalist,
and
with
Musk’s
added
threat
to
fund
primary
challenges
to
any
GOP
mavericks,
some
of
these
proposals
have
a
better
shot
of
getting
implemented
than
they’ve
had
in
a
long
time.
In
the
meantime,
there
is
really
no
benefit
to
naysaying.
Plenty
of
bad
ideas
are
going
to
be
coming
out
of
the
new
Trump
administration.
Might
as
well
try
to
help
usher
a
few
of
the
good
ones
along.
While
you
might
not
exactly
be
hanging
your
stockings
with
glee
this
year,
take
a
little
comfort
in
the
likelihood
that
a
few
ideas
that
are
not
the
worst
might
have
a
chance
in
the
new
year.
Another
Trump
presidency
and
the
world’s
richest
man
leading
a
fake
government
efficiency
office
might
not
be
the
Christmas
gifts
we
want,
but
they
most
certainly
are
the
Christmas
gifts
we
deserve.
We
absolutely
love
it
when
law
firms
keep
it
cool
by
matching
Milbank’s
generous
year-end
bonus
scale…
or
in
this
case,
we
suppose
they’re
keeping
it
“kool.”
Sources
report
that
McKool
Smith
—
the
Texas-based
complex
trial
firm
that’s
been
handing
out
money
to
associates
hand
over
fist
for
years
—
announced
its
year-end
bonuses
last
week,
and
it’s
not
surprising
that
the
firm
is
matching
Milbank.
As
a
cherry
on
top
of
this
bonus
sundae,
the
firm
is
offering
additional
cash
to
associates
who
have
diligently
attended
to
their
billable
hours
obligations,
with
some
attorneys
walking
away
with
bonuses
exceeding
the
Milbank
scale
by
more
than
35%.
You
may
recall
that
McKool
Smith
was
one
of
the
few
firms
to
offer
up
bonuses
this
past
summer,
ranging
from
$2,500
to
$30,000,
based
on
their
annualized
billable
hours.
Associates
still
have
the
opportunity
to
true-up
their
summer
bonus
money
if
they
move
into
another
hours-based
bonus
tier
by
year’s
end,
so
they’ll
be
able
to
make
even
more
money.
All
in
all,
associates
at
the
firm
are
ending
the
year
with
a
really
nice
chunk
of
change.
Congratulations
to
everyone
at
McKool
Smith!
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WASHINGTON
—
Texas
Republican
Rep.
Pat
Fallon
plans
to
introduce
a
bill
today
that
will
prohibit
the
Department
of
Defense
from
doing
information
technology-related
business
with
Chinese
entities,
Fallon
tells
Breaking
Defense.
The
bill,
titled
the
“Safeguard
American
Innovation
Act,”
would
ban
the
Secretary
of
Defense
from
“entering,
renewing,
or
extending
an
IT
contract”
with
companies
that
have
specific
ties
with
the
People’s
Republic
of
China,
according
to
a
preview
of
the
bill
sent
to
Breaking
Defense
before
its
release.
“The
‘Protecting
American
Innovation
Act’
is
vital
to
securing
our
nation’s
technology
and
deterring
foreign
threats,
particularly
from
China.
Recent
cyberattacks
like
SolarWinds
and
Salt
Typhoon
have
shown
how
vulnerable
our
defense
and
IT
systems
are
to
foreign
interference,”
Fallon,
a
House
Armed
Services
Committee
member,
told
Breaking
Defense
in
an
email.
“This
bill
will
take
action
to
prevent
this
by
blocking
any
Department
of
Defense
(DOD)
contracts
with
companies
tied
to
China
that
could
jeopardize
our
national
security.”
With
the
118th
Congress
ending
in
just
a
few
weeks,
this
iteration
of
the
bill
is
effectively
dead
on
arrival.
But
Fallon
said
he
is
introducing
the
bill
now
so
it
will
be
a
priority
in
the
next
Congress,
and
a
spokesperson
said
the
plan
is
to
reintroduce
the
language
once
the
119th
Congress
is
up
and
running.
“Along
with
the
return
of
President
Trump’s
leadership,
Rep.
Fallon’s
intention
going
into
the
119th
Congress
is
to
ensure
US
equities
are
protected
from
the
PRC
influence
to
prevent
what
we
saw
with
Salt
Typhoon
and
Solar
Winds.
Innovation
is
our
main
asymmetric
advantage
and
Congress
needs
to
protect
that
at
all
costs,”
the
spokesperson
said
in
an
email.
According
to
the
proposed
language, the
Secretary
of
Defense
will
be
barred
from
doing
business
with
IT
companies
that
are
characterized
as
the
following:
Fallon,
who
serves
on
the
HASC’s subcommittee
for
Cyber,
Innovative
Technologies
and
Information
Systems,
said
that
one
major
concern
he
has
with
the
DoD
doing
IT
business
with
Chinese
entities
is
due
to
the
fact
that
“China’s
laws
force
companies
to
share
sensitive
technology,
including
software
source
code,”
adding
that
this
“poses
a
serious
risk.”
“By
banning
contracts
with
companies
that
operate
in
China,
are
funded
by
the
People’s
Republic
of
China
(PRC),
or
allow
China
access
to
critical
code,
this
bill
helps
ensure
our
IT
infrastructure
remains
secure
and
our
technological
advancements
stay
out
of
adversaries’
hands.
This
legislation
is
essential
to
protecting
American
innovation,
keeping
our
military
safe,
and
maintaining
US
technological
leadership,”
he
added.
Related:
Chinese
sanctions
on
US
drone
firm
were
‘signal’
about
supply
chain
weaknesses:
DIU
official
Fallon’s
bill
to
address
IT
concerns
comes
after
several
years
of
rising
anxiety
from
the
Pentagon
and
lawmakers that
the
US
supply
chain
is
still
interwoven
with
Chinese
entities.
There
have
been
efforts
to
get
at
this
problem.
For
example,
in
2020
the
Defense
Innovation
Unit
launched
its
Blue
UAS
program,
a
“holistic
and
continuous
approach
that
rapidly
vets
and
scales
commercial
unmanned
aerial
system
(UAS)
technology
for
the
Department
of
Defense
(DoD)”
in
part
to
ensure
parts
don’t
come
from
adversaries.
And
on
the
Congressional
side,
the
2024
National
Defense
Authorization
Act
states
that
beginning
on
Oct.
1,
2027,
no
funds
appropriated
or
made
available
for
the
DoD
can
be
spent
to
procure
a
battery
produced
by
the
listed
Chinese-owned
and
-operated
companies.
(Photo
by
Erin
Schaff-Pool/Getty
Images)
*
Court
rules
that
federal
judge
committed
judicial
misconduct
by
undermining
public
confidence
in
the
courts
when
he
pointed
out
that
Supreme
Court
justices
were
committing
judicial
misconduct
(if
the
Supreme
Court
had
any
rules)
and
undermining
public
confidence
in
the
courts.
[
WSJ]
*
Fifth
Circuit
en
banc
(of
course)
signed
off
on
conviction
secured
by
prosecutor
simultaneously
working
his
own
case
as
a
judge’s
clerk.
Will
the
Supreme
Court
put
a
stop
to
it?
[Slate]
*
While
diversity
levels
across
all
law
schools
held
steady
last
year,
Harvard
Law
School
took
a
massive
hit
with
Black
enrollment
falling
more
than
half.
[NY
Times]
*
In
a
possibly
related
story,
a
lawsuit
says
elite
schools
bend
over
backward
to
admit
wealthier
students.
[The
Hill]
*
Starbucks
employees
authorize
venti
strike
as
contract
talks
continue.
[Law360]
*
FTC
junk
fees
rule
making
it
harder
for
hotels
to
gouge
consumers
“Hinges
on
Trump’s
Promised
Populism”
which
is
to
say
“will
die
once
a
hotel
owner
is
president.”
[Bloomberg
Law
News]
*
Judges
who
turn
to
Christmas
movies.
[ABA
Journal]
Top
20
Biglaw
Firm
Opts
Out
Of
Treating
Their
Associates
Special:
Just
the
base
bonuses.
Folks
are
pissed.
This
Small
Boutique
Firm
Pays
Their
Associates
Better
Than
Hogan
Lovells!:
Great
job,
Pallas
Partners!
This
Boutique
Firm
Also
Pays
Their
Associates
Better
Than
Hogan
Lovells!:
Great
job,
Yetter
Coleman!
Guess
What!
Another
Boutique
That
Takes
Care
Of
Their
Associates
Better
Than
Hogan
Lovells!:
Phenomenal
job,
Susman
Godfrey!
Right
Wingers
Stand
Up
Against
KBJ’s
Broadway
Debut:
Sure,
let’s
pretend
this
is
the
worst
thing
a
sitting
Justice
has
done
this
year.
(Photo
by
Joe
Raedle/Getty
Images)
To
call
Donald
Trump
a
transactional
leader
is
to
damn
with
faint
praise.
The
man
hawks
gold
sneakers.
He
took
the
White
House
photographers’
work
and
turned
it
into
a
$100
coffee
table
book.
He
shreds
his
clothes
and
sells
them
for
literal
scrap.
He
got
paid
billions
of
dollars
to
vomit
nonsense
onto
a
bespoke
social
media
platform
whose
only
rule
was
that
you
couldn’t
criticize him
(or
his
business
or
his
family).
And
so
it
is
perhaps
unsurprising
that
President-elect
Got
Mine
thinks
speech
is
literally
merchandise.
That
is
the
basis
of
his
trollsuit
(h/t
Politico)
against
J.
Ann
Selzer
and
the
Des
Moines
Register,
filed
last
night
in
the
District
Court
for
Polk
County,
Iowa.
Trump
says
that
Selzer
rigged
and
leaked
a
poll
that
showed
him
losing
the
state
to
Vice
President
Harris,
and
that
amounts
to
election
interference,
which
somehow
violates
Iowa’s
Consumer
Fraud
Act.
“President
Trump
brings
this
action
to
redress
the
immense
harm
caused
to
himself,
to
the
Trump
2024
Campaign,
and
to
millions
of
citizens
in
Iowa
and
across
America
by
the
Harris
Poll
and
the
Defendants,”
his
lawyer
Edward
Paltzik
blusters.
“Further,
this
action
is
necessary
to
deter
Defendants
and
their
fellow
radicals
from
continuing
to
act
with
corrupt
intent
in
releasing
polls
manufactured
for
the
purpose
of
skewing
election
results
in
favor
of
Democrats.”
The
entire
exercise
is
nonsense.
Trump
is
suing
in
his
individual
capacity,
and
yet
demands
to
recoup
“direct
federal
campaign
expenditures”
diverted
“to
mitigate
and
counteract
the
harms
of
the
Defendants’
conduct.”
The
suit
claims
that
“President
Trump,
together
with
all
Iowa
and
American
voters,
is
a
‘consumer’
within
the
meaning
of
the
statute.”
It
goes
to
considerable
lengths
to
call
Selzer
a
discredited
hack,
then
claims
that
“consumers,
including
Plaintiff,
were
badly
deceived
and
misled
as
to
the
actual
position
of
the
respective
candidates
in
the
Iowa
Presidential
race.”
And
the
“harms”
described
appear
to
be
…
not
harms?
After
20
pages
of
inchoate
screeching
peppered
with
quotes
from
local
Republican
officials,
Paltzik
comes
to
his
sole
count
of
“Violation
of
Iowa
Consumer
Fraud
Act
Iowa
Code
Chapter
714H.”
That
bog
standard
consumer
protection
statute
bars
deception
“in
connection
with
the
advertisement,
sale,
or
lease
of
consumer
merchandise,
or
the
solicitation
of
contributions
for
charitable
purposes.”
That
would
not
on
its
face
appear
to
include
“election
interference,”
even
if
such
a
thing
could
be
proved.
Trump
is
clearly
mad
about
newspaper
articles
predicting
information
that
turned
out
to
be
untrue.
But,
no,
Trump
insists
that
the
statute does
apply
to
journalism
because
“Defendants
furnished
‘merchandise’
to
consumers
within
the
broad
meaning
of
the
statute
since
they
provided
a
service:
physical
newspapers,
online
newspapers,
and
other
content
that
contained
the
Harris
Poll.”
Voilà!
Speech
is
now
“merchandise”
(or
possibly
a
service),
and
your
dumbshit
SLAPP
suit
is
now
outside
the
ambit
of
the
First
Amendment.
And
not
for
the
first
time
—
Paltzik
filed
a
similar
suit
in
Texas
(NDTX
Amarillo
division,
natch)
alleging
that
CBS
violated
the
Texas
Deceptive
Trade
Practices-Consumer
Protection
Act
by
editing
Vice
President
Harris’s
interview
on
“60
Minutes.”
Gannett,
the
parent
company
of
the Register,
is
also
a
named
defendant.
In
a
publicly
released
statement,
its
spokesperson
Lark-Marie
Anton
said,
“We
stand
by
our
reporting
on
the
matter
and
will
vigorously
defend
our
First
Amendment
rights.”
Of
course,
a
vigorous
defense,
even
one
that
is
ultimately
successful,
is
terribly
expensive.
And
unlike
Trump,
the
paper
won’t
be
able
to
be
able
tap
endless
piles
of
PAC
money
to
fund
its
legal
defense.
Nice
First
Amendment
you
got
there.
Be
a
shame
if
an
avalanche
of
bad
faith
litigation
were
to
happen
to
it.
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Justice
Ketanji
Brown
Jackson,
who
once
out-acted
Matt
Damon,
took
a
turn
on
Broadway
recently,
with
a
one-time
cameo
in
&Juliet.
And
conservatives
are
very,
very
mad
about
it.
Look,
there’s
an
argument
to
be
had
that
the
justices
should
not
stray
into
becoming
fixtures
of
popular
culture
—
indeed
there’s
a
plausible
claim
that
Justice
Ginsburg’s
refusal
to
retire
was
fueled
in
part
by
support
she
cultivated
as
pop
icon
“Notorious
RBG.”
And
there’s
a
solid
counterargument
that
figures
holding
the
sort
of
power
Supreme
Court
justices
wield
over
policy
should
be
more
accessible
than
a
cloistered
aristocracy
nixing
constitutional
rights
from
on
high.
Either
way,
a
one-off
appearance
in
a
show
is
hardly
moving
any
needles.
But
Carrie
Severino
of
the
Concord
Fund
—
the
entity
formerly
known
as
the
Judicial
Crisis
Network
—
is
not
pleased
AT
ALL.
It’s
a
real
mystery
why
Broadway
might
not
be
as
chummy
with
people
dedicated
to
making
life
more
miserable
for
women
and
gay
people.
But
also…
are
the
conservative
justices
not
interested
in
being
popular
icons?
Sam
Alito
went
out
and
got
people
to
knight
him.
Neil
Gorsuch
spent
his
Federalist
Society
speech
pining
for
a
social
media
squirrel.
And
conservatives
generally
love
tying
themselves
to
more
liberal
colleagues
to
bask
in
reflected
popularity.
It
seems
like
they
are
desperately
thirsty
for
popularity
—
especially
in
the
form
of
rock
star
status
at
Federalist
Society
events.
Just
because
they
aren’t
courting
the
same
audiences
doesn’t
mean
they
aren’t
just
as
obsessed
with
being
popular.
And
this
rant
from
a
former
Thomas
clerk
carries
(pun)
a
whole
lot
of
“I’m
not
mad,
please
don’t
put
in
the
newspaper
that
I
got
mad”
energy
on
behalf
of
justices
who
really
want
to
be
in
the
next
revival
of
A
Man
for
All
Seasons
starring
Kevin
Sorbo
or
whatever.
“Queer
Broadway
musicals.”
There
we
go!
It’s
refreshing
when
the
bigots
say
the
quiet
part
out
loud,
isn’t
it?
Also
what’s
this
“barely
leave
their
homes”
noise?
Thomas
and
Alito
don’t
seem
to
have
any
problems
leaving
the
house
if
someone
else
is
paying!
Thomas
is
even
willing
to
take
a
loan
—
possibly
a
fully
forgiven
one
—
for
a
mobile
home
from
an
interested
executive
if
the
circumstances
present
themselves.
He
drives
that
thing
all
over
the
country!
Hemmingway’s
article
notes
that
people
occasionally
protest
conservative
judges.
In
particular,
Mollie
points
to
protests
at
the
Capitol
over
Brett
Kavanaugh’s
confirmation
while
conspicuously
avoiding
any
allusion
to
the
whole
“attempted
rape”
part
of
those
hearings.
That
seems
like
it
would
be
a
significant
caveat!
Not
that
it’s
slowed
him
down.
Kavanaugh
and
Gorsuch
took
(arguably)
less
problematic
luxury
trips
on
ASS
Law’s
dime.
And
according
to
Times
reporting
about
Gorsuch’s
junket
(summarized
by
Business
Insider)
the
justices
have
a
lovely
time
on
these
trips.
These
teaching
trips
aren’t
solely
the
province
of
conservative
justices
—
Justice
Kagan
joined
Gorsuch
on
his
Iceland
trip
—
but
it
does
go
a
long
way
toward
dispelling
the
abject
nonsense
claim
that
the
Court’s
right
wing
“can
barely
leave
their
homes.”
But
the
key
to
running
a
judicial
crisis
network
is
pretending
that
there
is,
in
fact,
a
judicial
“crisis”
all
the
time.
And
it’s
all
about
how
everyone
doesn’t
like
them…
nature’s
perfect
snowflakes.
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