{"id":164500,"date":"2026-10-07T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/07\/bird-watching-hawks-vs-hawkeyes\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T23:09:14","slug":"bird-watching-hawks-vs-hawkeyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/07\/bird-watching-hawks-vs-hawkeyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Watching: Hawks vs. Hawkeyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a display that could only be described as cartoonish, Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights, before he tripped over himself and fell into a heap of mousetraps. After the special prosecutor denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game, Schmitt <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/senator-accuses-jack-smith-of-perjury-because-missouri-lawmaker-too-dumb-to-know-about-the-iowa-hawkeyes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cried perjury<\/a>. Eventually Smith revealed he\u2019d gone to an Iowa <em>Hawkeyes<\/em> game, blowing up Schmitt\u2019s conspiracy addled theory. And the faceplant somehow managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/eric-schmitt-drags-harvard-and-asslaw-into-jack-smith-hearing-faceplant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drag Harvard Law and George Mason\u2019s ASSLaw<\/a> down with it. Meanwhile, Biglaw may be inching closer to matching the Milbank scale, with a since-removed White &amp; Case job posting <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/is-this-a-low-key-biglaw-match-of-the-milbank-compensation-scale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teasing the new salary range<\/a>. And the Justice Department is eyeing an <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/trump-doj-considers-mission-to-exonerate-richard-nixon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indirect exoneration of Richard Nixon<\/a>. If that sounds like a ridiculous way for the DOJ to spend 2026, it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/bird-watching-hawks-vs-hawkeyes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bird Watching: Hawks vs. Hawkeyes<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a display that could only be described as cartoonish, Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights, before he tripped over himself and fell into a heap of mousetraps. After the special prosecutor denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game, Schmitt <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/senator-accuses-jack-smith-of-perjury-because-missouri-lawmaker-too-dumb-to-know-about-the-iowa-hawkeyes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cried perjury<\/a>. Eventually Smith revealed he\u2019d gone to an Iowa <em>Hawkeyes<\/em> game, blowing up Schmitt\u2019s conspiracy addled theory. And the faceplant somehow managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/eric-schmitt-drags-harvard-and-asslaw-into-jack-smith-hearing-faceplant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drag Harvard Law and George Mason\u2019s ASSLaw<\/a> down with it. Meanwhile, Biglaw may be inching closer to matching the Milbank scale, with a since-removed White &amp; Case job posting <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/is-this-a-low-key-biglaw-match-of-the-milbank-compensation-scale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">teasing the new salary range<\/a>. And the Justice Department is eyeing an <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/trump-doj-considers-mission-to-exonerate-richard-nixon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">indirect exoneration of Richard Nixon<\/a>. If that sounds like a ridiculous way for the DOJ to spend 2026, it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a display that could only be described as cartoonish, Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights, before he tripped over himself and fell into a heap of mousetraps. After the special prosecutor denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game, Schmitt cried perjury. 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