by RG | Jul 22, 2026 | above the law
In August 2025, Nintendo announced that it would raise the prices of the Nintendo Switch 2 console due to market conditions. At the time, the Trump tariffs were in effect starting with a 24% reciprocal tariff. Later, a negotiated 15% reciprocal tariff was imposed on...
by RG | Jul 22, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Vault’s most recent associate survey, which Biglaw firm (with a reputation for operating above the going Biglaw market rate) gets the number one spot for compensation? Hint: Interestingly,...
by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
John Yoo is back on his bullshit. The man best known for authoring vaguely legal-sounding memos turning the U.S. into a torture state went on Fox News yesterday to muse that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be investigated by the Trump Justice Department. Yoo...
by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
Attorneys can do a lot with new generative AI tools beyond earn sanctions for faking citations. But despite the AI industry’s curiously apocalyptic advertising claims — like Anthropic’s World Cup ad that sort of implied AI would kill us all? — the fact of the matter...
by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
The Trump administration is staffed almost exclusively by guys who saw Full Metal Jacket and decided to root for the drill sergeant. Obviously, that describes Pete Hegseth, whose whole persona is “Gunnery Sergeant Hartman attitude and Private Pyle physique,” but it...
by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
Judge VanDyke Has Taken To Asking The Supreme Court For Favors: Of the benchslap variety. Full Metal Briefing: Todd Blanche feared DOJ would get “skullfucked” by the courts. The Tortured Logic Of John Yoo: Yoo tells Fox News that the DOJ should probe Zohran Mamdani...