{"id":147658,"date":"2026-04-01T05:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/01\/morning-docket-04-01-26\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:28:55","slug":"morning-docket-04-01-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/01\/morning-docket-04-01-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 04.01.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Trump claims he\u2019s attending today\u2019s birthright citizenship arguments. At his New York criminal conviction, he took over closing arguments from his lawyers, believing he could do a better job. Let\u2019s see if we get the sequel! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/31\/donald-trump-supreme-court-birthright-arguments-00853581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Taylor Swift sued by showgirl over Life of a Showgirl. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/taylor-swifts-legal-showdown-over-the-life-of-a-showgirl-use\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The Supreme Court agreed with a gay conversion therapy outfit that laws banning merely talking about conversion violate the First Amendment right to give quack medical advice. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/03\/supreme-court-awful-conversion-therapy-kagan-sotomayor-why.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Boies Schiller looks to get paid for massive Google victory. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/david-boies-led-legal-team-seeks-147-million-fees-google-verdict-2026-03-31\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Republican federal judge blocks construction on White House ballroom, noting that the president does not, in fact, own the White House. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2460176\/-construction-has-to-stop-judge-blocks-trump-s-ballroom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Law firm leaders seeking out lawyer hires with AI experience. Finally there\u2019s a market for, \u201cspending the last two years telling your grandparents that Donald Trump didn\u2019t really ride a lion in that TikTok.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/legaltechnews\/2026\/03\/31\/legal-professionals-arm-themselves-with-ai-expertise-across-practice-areas-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/morning-docket-04-01-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 04.01.26<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Trump claims he\u2019s attending today\u2019s birthright citizenship arguments. At his New York criminal conviction, he took over closing arguments from his lawyers, believing he could do a better job. Let\u2019s see if we get the sequel! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/31\/donald-trump-supreme-court-birthright-arguments-00853581\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Taylor Swift sued by showgirl over Life of a Showgirl. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/taylor-swifts-legal-showdown-over-the-life-of-a-showgirl-use\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The Supreme Court agreed with a gay conversion therapy outfit that laws banning merely talking about conversion violate the First Amendment right to give quack medical advice. [<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2026\/03\/supreme-court-awful-conversion-therapy-kagan-sotomayor-why.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Boies Schiller looks to get paid for massive Google victory. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/david-boies-led-legal-team-seeks-147-million-fees-google-verdict-2026-03-31\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Republican federal judge blocks construction on White House ballroom, noting that the president does not, in fact, own the White House. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2460176\/-construction-has-to-stop-judge-blocks-trump-s-ballroom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Law firm leaders seeking out lawyer hires with AI experience. Finally there\u2019s a market for, \u201cspending the last two years telling your grandparents that Donald Trump didn\u2019t really ride a lion in that TikTok.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/legaltechnews\/2026\/03\/31\/legal-professionals-arm-themselves-with-ai-expertise-across-practice-areas-\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legaltech News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/morning-docket-04-01-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 04.01.26<\/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>* Trump claims he\u2019s attending today\u2019s birthright citizenship arguments. At his New York criminal conviction, he took over closing arguments from his lawyers, believing he could do a better job. Let\u2019s see if we get the sequel! [Politico] * Taylor Swift sued by showgirl over Life of a Showgirl. [ABA Journal] * The Supreme Court [&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-147658","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\/147658","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=147658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}