{"id":150728,"date":"2026-05-08T05:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/08\/morning-docket-05-08-26\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:29:54","slug":"morning-docket-05-08-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/08\/morning-docket-05-08-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 05.08.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* The grand jury that investigated Trump\u2019s alleged interference in the 2020 election heard from more than 60 witnesses. The transcripts are now available. [Lawfare<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* A dive into how John Roberts growing up in a whites-only neighborhood brought us to Callais<\/em>. [Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Former Willkie Farr lawyer became the key cooperator in insider trading case<\/a>. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Todd Blanche tells CBS News that he doesn\u2019t know anything about Jim Comey getting indicted over \u201cSea Shellgate\u201d and blames the whole thing on local prosecutors and that \u201cI don\u2019t even know their names.\u201d Apparently the \u201cwe spent 9 months investigating this at the highest levels\u201d line from the week before wasn\u2019t testing well. [CBS News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump loses new, revised tariffs case. Surely he will respond with dignity and grace. [AP News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The UCLA Federalist Society event<\/a> that became a right-wing \u201ccampus free speech crisis\u201d story was\u2026 not at all what how it was portrayed on social media. Shocking! [Dorf on Law<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Kash Patel reportedly ordering polygraphs of more than two dozen current and former close staff in desperate effort to identify those talking to the press about drinking escapades\u2026 that he claimed never happened anyway. [MSNow<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 05.08.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* The grand jury that investigated Trump\u2019s alleged interference in the 2020 election heard from more than 60 witnesses. The transcripts are now available. [Lawfare<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* A dive into how John Roberts growing up in a whites-only neighborhood brought us to Callais<\/em>. [Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Former Willkie Farr lawyer became the key cooperator in insider trading case<\/a>. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Todd Blanche tells CBS News that he doesn\u2019t know anything about Jim Comey getting indicted over \u201cSea Shellgate\u201d and blames the whole thing on local prosecutors and that \u201cI don\u2019t even know their names.\u201d Apparently the \u201cwe spent 9 months investigating this at the highest levels\u201d line from the week before wasn\u2019t testing well. [CBS News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump loses new, revised tariffs case. Surely he will respond with dignity and grace. [AP News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The UCLA Federalist Society event<\/a> that became a right-wing \u201ccampus free speech crisis\u201d story was\u2026 not at all what how it was portrayed on social media. Shocking! [Dorf on Law<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Kash Patel reportedly ordering polygraphs of more than two dozen current and former close staff in desperate effort to identify those talking to the press about drinking escapades\u2026 that he claimed never happened anyway. [MSNow<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 05.08.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* The grand jury that investigated Trump\u2019s alleged interference in the 2020 election heard from more than 60 witnesses. The transcripts are now available. [Lawfare] * A dive into how John Roberts growing up in a whites-only neighborhood brought us to Callais. [Slate] * Former Willkie Farr lawyer became the key cooperator in insider trading […]<\/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-150728","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\/150728","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=150728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}