{"id":155170,"date":"2026-06-21T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/21\/the-dojs-slush-fund-fallout-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:27:15","slug":"the-dojs-slush-fund-fallout-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/21\/the-dojs-slush-fund-fallout-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"The DOJ\u2019s Slush Fund Fallout \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ain\u2019t No Government Service Like Self-Service:<\/strong>\u00a0The Senate-confirmed DOJ official tasked with selling the slush fund to Congress, quietly tried to recuse himself from that work so he could file his own personal claim against the fund.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bar Tab Comes Due: <\/strong>\u00a0Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who signed off on the slush fund that would have paid out his own former clients, now faces a D.C. bar complaint.<\/a><\/p>\n

All The News That\u2019s Glaringly Obvious:<\/strong>\u00a0The New York Times editorial board laid out four reasons Todd Blanche shouldn\u2019t be confirmed as Attorney General.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarp Of The Morning:<\/strong>\u00a0A D.C. Circuit panel denied the stay, the scaffolding went back up, and Trump\u2019s name came off the Kennedy Center under cover of 1:30 a.m. tarps unfurled in front of a cheering crowd.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not It:<\/strong>\u00a0The Supreme Court declined to review the due process questions surrounding 98-year-old Judge Pauline Newman, suspended by her own colleagues without the impeachment process the Constitution requires.<\/a><\/p>\n

Stacking The Deck:<\/strong>\u00a0A new study of 146 federal judges finds that clerkship \u201cstacking\u201d has turned a one-year launchpad into a multi-year credential arms race that the judges fueling it freely admit is broken.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gone Phishin\u2019:<\/strong>\u00a0Lewis Brisbois ordered its remote staff back to the office after a cyberattack.<\/a><\/p>\n

He Said, She Said:<\/strong> Running the same Biglaw resume through Gemini under a man\u2019s name and a woman\u2019s name turned identical experience into \u201cextensive\u201d for Thomas and a downgrade for Vivian, who also somehow saw her $700 million deal shrink to $700.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post The DOJ\u2019s Slush Fund Fallout \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ain\u2019t No Government Service Like Self-Service:<\/strong>\u00a0The Senate-confirmed DOJ official tasked with selling the slush fund to Congress, quietly tried to recuse himself from that work so he could file his own personal claim against the fund.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bar Tab Comes Due: <\/strong>\u00a0Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who signed off on the slush fund that would have paid out his own former clients, now faces a D.C. bar complaint.<\/a><\/p>\n

All The News That\u2019s Glaringly Obvious:<\/strong>\u00a0The New York Times editorial board laid out four reasons Todd Blanche shouldn\u2019t be confirmed as Attorney General.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tarp Of The Morning:<\/strong>\u00a0A D.C. Circuit panel denied the stay, the scaffolding went back up, and Trump\u2019s name came off the Kennedy Center under cover of 1:30 a.m. tarps unfurled in front of a cheering crowd.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not It:<\/strong>\u00a0The Supreme Court declined to review the due process questions surrounding 98-year-old Judge Pauline Newman, suspended by her own colleagues without the impeachment process the Constitution requires.<\/a><\/p>\n

Stacking The Deck:<\/strong>\u00a0A new study of 146 federal judges finds that clerkship \u201cstacking\u201d has turned a one-year launchpad into a multi-year credential arms race that the judges fueling it freely admit is broken.<\/a><\/p>\n

Gone Phishin\u2019:<\/strong>\u00a0Lewis Brisbois ordered its remote staff back to the office after a cyberattack.<\/a><\/p>\n

He Said, She Said:<\/strong> Running the same Biglaw resume through Gemini under a man\u2019s name and a woman\u2019s name turned identical experience into \u201cextensive\u201d for Thomas and a downgrade for Vivian, who also somehow saw her $700 million deal shrink to $700.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ain\u2019t No Government Service Like Self-Service:\u00a0The Senate-confirmed DOJ official tasked with selling the slush fund to Congress, quietly tried to recuse himself from that work so he could file his own personal claim against the fund. Bar Tab Comes Due: \u00a0Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who signed off on the slush fund that would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155171,"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-155170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/money-hundreds-GettyImages-2177624474-1024x516-eTaNMP.jpg?fit=1024%2C516&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155170","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=155170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}