{"id":158745,"date":"2026-07-29T06:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/morning-docket-07-29-26\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:34:25","slug":"morning-docket-07-29-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/morning-docket-07-29-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 07.29.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 \u201cU\u201ds: \u201cunlawful,\u201d \u201cunethical\u201d and \u201cunseemly\u201d conduct. [Pro Publica<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judge orders immigration authorities to release man they\u2019d kept under lock and key ever since he witnessed ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. [Texas Tribune<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The Comey indictment is somehow even more flimsy than we all thought. [Empty Wheel<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* D.C. Circuit won\u2019t strike down the Trump plan to use Post Office to block mail-in votes from Democratic states until he actually does something. So we\u2019re going to wait until it actually becomes a logistical disaster to do anything about it. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judiciary Committee Republicans ask Blanche to commit to more aggressive assault on reproductive rights. [Balls and Strikes<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Administration erases right to a hearing from asylum language \u2014 plans to send seekers directly to deportation processing. [Washington Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Talc case parties present $5.5 billion settlement deal. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 07.29.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 \u201cU\u201ds: \u201cunlawful,\u201d \u201cunethical\u201d and \u201cunseemly\u201d conduct. [Pro Publica<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judge orders immigration authorities to release man they\u2019d kept under lock and key ever since he witnessed ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. [Texas Tribune<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* The Comey indictment is somehow even more flimsy than we all thought. [Empty Wheel<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* D.C. Circuit won\u2019t strike down the Trump plan to use Post Office to block mail-in votes from Democratic states until he actually does something. So we\u2019re going to wait until it actually becomes a logistical disaster to do anything about it. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Judiciary Committee Republicans ask Blanche to commit to more aggressive assault on reproductive rights. [Balls and Strikes<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Administration erases right to a hearing from asylum language \u2014 plans to send seekers directly to deportation processing. [Washington Post<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Talc case parties present $5.5 billion settlement deal. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 \u201cU\u201ds: \u201cunlawful,\u201d \u201cunethical\u201d and \u201cunseemly\u201d conduct. [Pro Publica] * Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell. [NY Times] * Judge orders immigration authorities to release man they\u2019d kept under lock and key ever since he witnessed ICE killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. [Texas Tribune] * […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158746,"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-158745","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\/07\/iStock-484137638-scaled-EAcJ3T.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158745","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=158745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}