*
Supreme
Court
majority
—
without
justification
—
allows
Texas
to
gerrymander
its
maps.
Now
the
work
begins
for
the
justices
to
figure
out
some
way
to
simultaneously
claim
California’s
maps
aren’t
legal.
[NBC
News]
*
Justice
Department’s
attempt
to
re-indict
NY
AG
Letitia
James
fails
as
grand
jury
looks
at
evidence
and
says
what
all
the
career
prosecutors
did:
“nah.”
[Law360]
*
First
court
appearance
today
for
man
accused
of
planting
pipe
bombs
before
January
6
riot.
How
long
until
Trump
pardons
him?
[Reuters]
*
Apple
poaches
Meta’s
top
lawyer.
[Bloomberg]
*
Netflix
announces
bid
to
buy
Warner
and
HBO.
From
an
antitrust
perspective,
this
is
troubling.
From
an
entertainment
perspective,
it’s
exciting
that
Netflix
might
put
the
worst
managed
media
company
in
history
out
of
its
current
leadership
misery.
[CNN]
*
Barrister
who
wrote
novel
about
shady,
rule-breaking
lawyer…
disbarred.
[Roll
on
Friday]
*
Ghislaine
Maxwell
says
releasing
the
Epstein
files
could
jeopardize
her
appeal.
There’s
a
lot
of
chatter
about
Trump
pardoning
Maxwell,
but
keeping
her
locked
up
in
appeals
might
be
the
only
thing
protecting
him
at
this
point.
[Sky
News]
*
AI
begins
to
reshape
Biglaw
training.
[American
Lawyer]