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I Like My Bar Exam Questions Like I Like My Coffee

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This Law Student Refused to Let Big Firms Get Away with Quiet Complicity

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Troops in LA; Abrego Garcia's Trumped Up Charges

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The Part of Collections Collector

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Federal Workers: Rise Up, Fight Back!

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Three Unanimous Supreme Court Decisions, and Why They Sound Bad But Aren't Really

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Adverse Possession Is 9/10ths of the Law

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75% of Exonerated Women Were Convicted of Crimes That Didn't Even Happen (!)

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Courts Handed Trump Some Huge Losses This Week

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You're a...... CROOK Captain Hook

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The Battle Over Cop City

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A 'Pay What You Can' Law Practice? Prosecutors Say That Encourages Crime.

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Can a Priest Rat You Out?

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It Took Years, but Guatemala Held a Brutal Dictator Accountable. What Can We Learn?

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The Birthright Citizenship Case Is Actually Something Differently Terrible

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Getting Our Dramshop Act Together

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The Supreme Court Sucks. But at Least We Can Talk to Leah Litman About It!

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A Very Stablecoin Genius

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Several Very Good Court Thingies

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Passing the Joint Tenancy

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Trump's FBI Just Arrested a Judge

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Alito Fails to Understand a Kids' Book — and Other Fascist Mega-Fails of the Week!

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T3BE67: To Larse or to Burgle?

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Meet the Absolute Heroes Behind CourtListener.com

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Just When We Thought Big Law Could Not Be More Pathetic

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T3BE66: Drowning in Camera Repair Debt

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DHS Tries to Get Citizen To Self-Deport. The Story Went Viral. Turns Out SHE'S MATT'S LAW PARTNER!

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Republicans Might As Well Pass the "No Things We Don't Like" Act

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ICE Disappeared One of Matt's Clients

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The Karen Read Trial(s)

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Kafka, Esq.

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The HHS Massacre

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Rap on Trial - Young Thug Was Not the First and Won’t Be the Last

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Big Law Firm Paul Weiss Caved to Trump's Bogus Order in 4 Days. It Was Cowardly and Inexcusable.

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State Bar of California Fails the Bar Exam

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How One Lawsuit Targeting Trans Rights Could Undermine Disability Protections for Everyone

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Not in a Gang? That’s Actually a Common Indicator of Gang Membership

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Magical Mister Trumpstoffelees

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It Sure Looks Like Mayor of Istanbul Eric Adams Is Going to Get Away With It

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FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL

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The SAVE Act Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters. Democrats Must Stop It.

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“But He’ll Be Great for the Economy!”

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Boston Mayor Wu Absolutely Demolishes House Republicans

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As Trump Drones On, Democrats Resistance Takes Different Forms

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DOGE Is Defying Court Orders. Will the Supreme Court Care?

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Blake Lively v Justin Baldoni

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‘Run for Something’ Is Stronger Than Ever. We’re Going to Need It.

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But Who Lawyers the Lawyers?

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We Have a King Now I Guess. Cool. Cool.

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The Thursday Night Massacre, Part 2

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The Thursday Night Massacre

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Drinking from the Firehose of Fascism

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DoJ Memo Written In Crayon On Olive Garden Kids Menu Directs SDNY to Drop Eric Adams Case

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How the Insurrectionist Might Use the Insurrection Act to Go After Non-insurrectionists

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It's Only Been 18 Days, But That's An Eternity in DOGE Years

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The Pro-vaccine Republican Doctor Who Just Just Gave His Vote to RFK, Jr.

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Rudy Giuliani and the Possibly the Worst Legal Document Ever Filed

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People Are Fighting Back Against Trump’s Fascist Agenda in the Courts, and They’re Already Winning

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Key Figure Behind Project 2025 Lies His Way Through Confirmation

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The Vacancies Act - How Trump Has Used and Abused It, and Might Again

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Triaging All the Horrible

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Trump's Executive Orders Are All Absurd and Horrible. But Which of them Actually Matter?

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We (Disrespectfully) Dissent.

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We've Had One Jack Smith Report, Yes. But What About Second Report?

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Democratic Senators Faced Their First Test in the Trump 2.0 Era - the Hegseth Confirmation

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We Watched the Eastman Documentary Trump Screened at Mar-a-Lago

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Trump Has His Own Entire Genre of Law Now

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The Hysterical Victimhood Complex of John Eastman

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The Lawyers Behind 1/6 Are Trying to Rewrite History. We Can't Let Them.

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SCOTUS Fast-Tracks TikTok Case; Trump Files Nonsense Amicus Brief

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A Law for Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

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Lawrence Lessig Thinks the Supreme Court Will End SuperPACs

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Rudy Giuliani Has Lost Everything, Including His Own Lawyers

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Ok, but Would AI Judges Really Be Any Worse?

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Luigi Mangione Being Charged as a Terrorist Is Borderline Prosecutorial Misconduct

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Pete Hegseth Is Finally Going to Make the US Military Less Woke

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Mass Deportation Is Much Harder Than Trump Thinks

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The Luigi Mangione Case: A NY Defense Attorney Breaks It Down

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There’s Something Deeply Wrong With Stephen Miller (And There Always Has Been)

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Trump Doubles Down on Immigration Plans In Softball NBC Interview

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Supreme Court Justices Should Not Be This Good At Playing Dumb

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Trump's Intelligence Picks - Doozies and Russian Assets

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Please Stop Spreading Panic About Denaturalization

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Drakesgiving Special

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"The Right Way" Part 2

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What It Really Takes To Immigrate "The Right Way"

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Trump Takes MAGA Senators on Field Trip, Allowing Dems To Confirm More Judges

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All the President's... Defense Attorneys

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Enter the Gaetz of Hell

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Trump's Picks Are So Bad He Wants To Subvert His Own Congress. Can He?

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Trump's Staff Infection

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How Joe Biden Can Go Out a Legend

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The Luckiest Criminal Defendant in American History

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No, She Didn't 'Lose' 15m Democratic Votes

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We're In Serious Trouble

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What Are the ACTUAL Policy Differences Between Trump and Harris?

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When Elon Musk Violates Immigration Law It's Fine Though

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Taking Jurisdiction Personally - T3BE 46

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A Lot of People Who Don’t Believe in Elections Are Running for Election

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What Skipping Dipshit Elon Musk Is Doing Has to Be Illegal, Right?

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