by RG | Aug 25, 2025 | above the law
This [Husch Blackwell’s fully virtual office, The Link] is working. We figured it out. And I think that people who are most frustrated are the people who were so successful and then enjoyed some of the benefits of it, and now their companies and their firms are...
by RG | Aug 25, 2025 | above the law
The “blue slip” tradition, requiring home state senator approval for judicial nominees, is back in the news. If the tradition of getting senators to sign off on a president’s judicial nominees — potentially of another political party — seems like it’s from a bygone...
by RG | Aug 25, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)Intel just agreed to give the federal government a roughly 10 percent ownership stake. It’s reportedly a common stock deal that binds the federal government to vote with the board unless the board is voting to undermine the...
by RG | Aug 25, 2025 | above the law
The Trump administration’s haphazard deportation scheme sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvadoran slave prison… by accident. OOPS! After a federal lawyer was forced to admit the mistake — because he didn’t want to lie to the court — the administration promptly...
by RG | Aug 25, 2025 | above the law
Is it possible that inflation will be the big issue in 2026? Inflation was certainly a big issue in 2024, and it played against the Democrats. Might inflation now play against the Republicans? I’m thinking primarily of the price of essentials: food and electricity. I...
by RG | Aug 25, 2025 | above the law
Donald Trump’s efforts to defend the executive orders targeting Biglaw firms that have earned his ire are loser cases. Four different district court judges from across the political spectrum have all ruled that EOs aimed at Perkins Coie, Jenner &...
