{"id":149662,"date":"2026-04-26T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/26\/the-dojs-week-of-disaster-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:35:04","slug":"the-dojs-week-of-disaster-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/26\/the-dojs-week-of-disaster-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"The DOJ\u2019s Week Of Disaster \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Streisand Effect Finds Its Spirit Animal<\/strong>: The Atlantic<\/em> published an article based on multiple insider accounts of Kash Patel\u2019s drinking prompting the FBI Director to promise swift legal retaliation<\/a>. He made good on that pledge with a flimsy $250 million defamation complaint<\/a> (possibly drafted by AI<\/a>), that only managed to look weaker the more he talked about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DOJ Does A Solid For The KKK<\/strong>: Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director (for the moment\u2026) Kash Patel announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> for its work gathering intelligence on known hate groups. But apparently no one bothered to double-check the charging documents, because the indictment fails to allege a whole element<\/a>.<\/p>\n

S&C\u2019s Letter To The Court, Translated: \u2018Please\u2019<\/strong>: Sullivan & Cromwell submitted an emergency filing asking a federal court not to sanction the firm after discovering their filings were riddled with AI hallucinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Powell Pwns Pirro<\/strong>: Adding to the DOJ\u2019s woes this week, Jeanine Pirro tried to quietly extricate the Justice Department from its phony case against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Freedom Of Religion Means Everyone Is Free To Worship The Way The Fifth Circuit Tells You<\/strong>: The Fifth Circuit embarked on some quirky mental gymnastics to explain why Texas can demand public schools post the Ten Commandments in every classroom is not \u201cestablishment of religion.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

When The Law Is On Your Side, Pound The Law; When The Facts Are On Your Side, Pound The Facts; When You Have Neither, Pound The Leak<\/strong>: Uncovered memos reveal Chief Justice Roberts\u2019s deeply cynical role in inventing the Supreme Court\u2019s new hyperactive shadow docket as a policy instrument<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ranking Law Schools<\/strong>: By buildings<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, practical training<\/a>, and Biglaw job prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Law Professor\u2019s Love Letter To Hungarian Authoritarianism<\/strong>: Jonathan Turley is just a Republican talking points pullstring toy at this point, but his lament over the fall of Viktor Orban is conspiracy theory stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Partners Are?<\/strong>: Because the lateral market keeps churning, with Paul Weiss losing prominent appellate partner to Davis Polk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corporate Clients Memory Hole DEI<\/strong>: Corporate legal departments, which once loudly demanded diversity commitments from outside counsel, are now quietly letting those commitments expire, in what we in the journalism business call \u201ca pattern.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The Federalist Society\u2019s Extremely Normal Evening<\/strong>: A Federalist Society event intended to present the legal case for DHS immigration operations as something other than what they are encountered mild friction when the protesters outside declined to pretend otherwise.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post The DOJ\u2019s Week Of Disaster \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Streisand Effect Finds Its Spirit Animal<\/strong>: The Atlantic<\/em> published an article based on multiple insider accounts of Kash Patel\u2019s drinking prompting the FBI Director to promise swift legal retaliation<\/a>. He made good on that pledge with a flimsy $250 million defamation complaint<\/a> (possibly drafted by AI<\/a>), that only managed to look weaker the more he talked about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DOJ Does A Solid For The KKK<\/strong>: Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director (for the moment\u2026) Kash Patel announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> for its work gathering intelligence on known hate groups. But apparently no one bothered to double-check the charging documents, because the indictment fails to allege a whole element<\/a>.<\/p>\n

S&C\u2019s Letter To The Court, Translated: \u2018Please\u2019<\/strong>: Sullivan & Cromwell submitted an emergency filing asking a federal court not to sanction the firm after discovering their filings were riddled with AI hallucinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Powell Pwns Pirro<\/strong>: Adding to the DOJ\u2019s woes this week, Jeanine Pirro tried to quietly extricate the Justice Department from its phony case against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Freedom Of Religion Means Everyone Is Free To Worship The Way The Fifth Circuit Tells You<\/strong>: The Fifth Circuit embarked on some quirky mental gymnastics to explain why Texas can demand public schools post the Ten Commandments in every classroom is not \u201cestablishment of religion.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

When The Law Is On Your Side, Pound The Law; When The Facts Are On Your Side, Pound The Facts; When You Have Neither, Pound The Leak<\/strong>: Uncovered memos reveal Chief Justice Roberts\u2019s deeply cynical role in inventing the Supreme Court\u2019s new hyperactive shadow docket as a policy instrument<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ranking Law Schools<\/strong>: By buildings<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, practical training<\/a>, and Biglaw job prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Law Professor\u2019s Love Letter To Hungarian Authoritarianism<\/strong>: Jonathan Turley is just a Republican talking points pullstring toy at this point, but his lament over the fall of Viktor Orban is conspiracy theory stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Partners Are?<\/strong>: Because the lateral market keeps churning, with Paul Weiss losing prominent appellate partner to Davis Polk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Corporate Clients Memory Hole DEI<\/strong>: Corporate legal departments, which once loudly demanded diversity commitments from outside counsel, are now quietly letting those commitments expire, in what we in the journalism business call \u201ca pattern.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The Federalist Society\u2019s Extremely Normal Evening<\/strong>: A Federalist Society event intended to present the legal case for DHS immigration operations as something other than what they are encountered mild friction when the protesters outside declined to pretend otherwise.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post The DOJ\u2019s Week Of Disaster \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Streisand Effect Finds Its Spirit Animal: The Atlantic published an article based on multiple insider accounts of Kash Patel\u2019s drinking prompting the FBI Director to promise swift legal retaliation. He made good on that pledge with a flimsy $250 million defamation complaint (possibly drafted by AI), that only managed to look weaker the more […]<\/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-149662","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\/149662","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=149662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}