{"id":133958,"date":"2025-09-26T05:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/26\/morning-docket-09-26-25\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:56:25","slug":"morning-docket-09-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/26\/morning-docket-09-26-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 09.26.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* James Comey indicted in effort to criminalize hurting Trump\u2019s feelings. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/25\/politics\/james-comey-justice-department-trump-bondi-perjury-virginia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Comey is hiring Pat Fitzgerald, the former Illinois federal prosecutor, to represent him. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/comey-turns-to-blagojevich-prosecutor-for-trump-criminal-defense\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Clarence Thomas tells audience that he and his colleagues are no longer even pretending to respect stare decisis. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/thomas-signals-no-slowdown-to-precedent-purge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Administration sues six states for election rolls in vote suppression bid. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-justice-department-sues-six-states-not-providing-voter-registration-lists-2025-09-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ creates new branch dedicated to suing people and institutions that don\u2019t comply with administration policy and messaging. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2392683\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Fourth Circuit prepares to hear Trump\u2019s lawsuit against all Maryland judges. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/09\/26\/trumps-bid-to-revive-lawsuit-against-maryland-judges-unlikely-to-face-smooth-path\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Biglaw lawfluencer quits after two weeks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/budding-lawfluencer-quits-dla-piper-training-contract-after-two-weeks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/morning-docket-09-26-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 09.26.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* James Comey indicted in effort to criminalize hurting Trump\u2019s feelings. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/25\/politics\/james-comey-justice-department-trump-bondi-perjury-virginia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Comey is hiring Pat Fitzgerald, the former Illinois federal prosecutor, to represent him. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/comey-turns-to-blagojevich-prosecutor-for-trump-criminal-defense\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Clarence Thomas tells audience that he and his colleagues are no longer even pretending to respect stare decisis. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/thomas-signals-no-slowdown-to-precedent-purge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Administration sues six states for election rolls in vote suppression bid. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/us-justice-department-sues-six-states-not-providing-voter-registration-lists-2025-09-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DOJ creates new branch dedicated to suing people and institutions that don\u2019t comply with administration policy and messaging. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2392683\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Fourth Circuit prepares to hear Trump\u2019s lawsuit against all Maryland judges. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2025\/09\/26\/trumps-bid-to-revive-lawsuit-against-maryland-judges-unlikely-to-face-smooth-path\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Biglaw lawfluencer quits after two weeks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/budding-lawfluencer-quits-dla-piper-training-contract-after-two-weeks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/morning-docket-09-26-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 09.26.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* James Comey indicted in effort to criminalize hurting Trump\u2019s feelings. [CNN] * Comey is hiring Pat Fitzgerald, the former Illinois federal prosecutor, to represent him. [Bloomberg Law News] * Clarence Thomas tells audience that he and his colleagues are no longer even pretending to respect stare decisis. [Courthouse News Service] * Administration sues six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}