{"id":160696,"date":"2026-08-17T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/morning-docket-08-17-26\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T05:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:13:57","slug":"morning-docket-08-17-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/17\/morning-docket-08-17-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 08.17.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Trump\u2019s legal team at S&C just keeps shrinking. [Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Armed men claiming to be ICE agents try to bust into immigration law firm. [Sacramento Bee<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Already facing ethical questions, the Chicago US Attorney\u2019s Office now revealed to have been running investigation into daughter of NY judge in Trump\u2019s trial. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Administration allowing Trump family crypto venture to convert into a bank. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Kyrsten Sinema\u2019s sexcapades revealed in court documents. [Daily Beast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Law student punished for Charlie Kirk comments secures key victory. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Goodwin Procter unveils AI tool to streamline venture capital financings. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump asks Supreme Court to authorize his power to tear down and rebuild national monuments without congressional approval. [US News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Tracing originalism\u2019s Bullshit-Industrial complex. [Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* A law firm identified by the SPLC as a hate group took the organization to court. The Sixth Circuit tossed the case, noting that the firm posted a press release about it on their own website. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 08.17.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Trump\u2019s legal team at S&C just keeps shrinking. [Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Armed men claiming to be ICE agents try to bust into immigration law firm. [Sacramento Bee<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Already facing ethical questions, the Chicago US Attorney\u2019s Office now revealed to have been running investigation into daughter of NY judge in Trump\u2019s trial. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Administration allowing Trump family crypto venture to convert into a bank. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Kyrsten Sinema\u2019s sexcapades revealed in court documents. [Daily Beast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Law student punished for Charlie Kirk comments secures key victory. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Goodwin Procter unveils AI tool to streamline venture capital financings. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Trump asks Supreme Court to authorize his power to tear down and rebuild national monuments without congressional approval. [US News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Tracing originalism\u2019s Bullshit-Industrial complex. [Slate<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* A law firm identified by the SPLC as a hate group took the organization to court. The Sixth Circuit tossed the case, noting that the firm posted a press release about it on their own website. [Courthouse News Service<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Trump\u2019s legal team at S&C just keeps shrinking. [Politico] * Armed men claiming to be ICE agents try to bust into immigration law firm. [Sacramento Bee] * Already facing ethical questions, the Chicago US Attorney\u2019s Office now revealed to have been running investigation into daughter of NY judge in Trump\u2019s trial. [NY Times] * […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160697,"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-160696","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\/08\/GettyImages-2215972994-k3oUK2.jpg?fit=594%2C422&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160696","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=160696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}