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17 hours agoMorning Docket: 05.13.26 - Above the Law
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* Mark Kelly hires Arnold & Porter to sue Pete Hegseth and the Defense Department for threatening to illegally slash his pension. [ The New Republic] * Jerome Powell hires Williams & Connolly to deal with DOJ threats. [ New York Times] * It's striking that critics of the Maduro capture cite specific text from the Constitution and international treaties, and the Deputy Attorney General cites "nuh uh." [ The Hill]
* Federal lawyers admit they falsely stated the number of agents sent to Portland - a key claim in the government's claim that protests met the statutory threshold for deploying troops. You see, they told the court that conditions required 115 agents when the most they ever had was 31. Oops! [ Oregon Live] * Anthropic settlement puts four Supreme Court justices in line for checks. [ Bloomberg Law News]