{"id":158783,"date":"2026-07-29T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/park-benches-and-supreme-court-benches\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:38:42","slug":"park-benches-and-supreme-court-benches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/29\/park-benches-and-supreme-court-benches\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Benches And Supreme Court Benches"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest story in legal last week was an unfortunate guerrilla antagonizing of a couple making out on a park bench<\/a>\u2026 who just happened to be a Wachtell partner and associate<\/a>. And now an internal HR problem is suddenly national news. Say what you will about the person who filmed it, but \u201cget a room\u201d was good advice. Meanwhile, Todd Blanche\u2019s confirmation hearings continued to drag on, with former supporters abandoning him<\/a> and even some Republicans wondering why he can\u2019t commit to ruling out a January 6 slush fund<\/a>. A new book says Blanche once feared bringing frivolous cases<\/a>. He seems to have gotten over that. And Elena Kagan publicly claims her colleagues get a \u201cbad rap\u201d for supporting Trump<\/a>. She\u2019s wrong and making these statements unfairly maligns her liberal colleagues facing personal attacks for their work. Oh, and John Yoo is back in the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The biggest story in legal last week was an unfortunate guerrilla antagonizing of a couple making out on a park bench<\/a>\u2026 who just happened to be a Wachtell partner and associate<\/a>. And now an internal HR problem is suddenly national news. Say what you will about the person who filmed it, but \u201cget a room\u201d was good advice. Meanwhile, Todd Blanche\u2019s confirmation hearings continued to drag on, with former supporters abandoning him<\/a> and even some Republicans wondering why he can\u2019t commit to ruling out a January 6 slush fund<\/a>. A new book says Blanche once feared bringing frivolous cases<\/a>. He seems to have gotten over that. And Elena Kagan publicly claims her colleagues get a \u201cbad rap\u201d for supporting Trump<\/a>. She\u2019s wrong and making these statements unfairly maligns her liberal colleagues facing personal attacks for their work. Oh, and John Yoo is back in the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The post Park Benches And Supreme Court Benches<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biggest story in legal last week was an unfortunate guerrilla antagonizing of a couple making out on a park bench\u2026 who just happened to be a Wachtell partner and associate. And now an internal HR problem is suddenly national news. Say what you will about the person who filmed it, but \u201cget a room\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158784,"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-158783","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\/GettyImages-1403235906-b7Ae8L.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158783","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=158783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}