* Judge Nichols heaps praise on DOJ lawyers suspended for acknowledging the January 6 riot. [Reuters]

* Next big executive power showdown? National monuments. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Government tells Supreme Court that overturning tariffs would jeopardize all the trade deals they wouldn’t need it they didn’t have tariffs. [Law360]

* Clients turning to firms for AI training. No way this ends in disaster. [Legaltech News]

* The only entity that tried to steal an election in 2024 was the North Carolina Supreme Court. This article gets at the root cause of that rot. [ProPublica]

* We’re yet again debating the dumbest policy question ever: permanent daylight saving. [The Hill]

* Happy Halloween… with some classic lawyer jokes. [Banzhaf]

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