” Mueller’s Digging Exposes Culture of Foreign Lobbying and Its Big PaydaysWRAL – Mark Mazzetti and Katie Benner (New York Times) | Published: 8/1/2018 The case against Paul Manafort is part of a broader inquiry into the lucrative work done on behalf of the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and special counsel Robert Mueller has handed some elements of the investigation to federal prosecutors in New York. [read post]

This timeline prevents judges from hiring earlier and earlier—a race-to-the-bottom scenario that often leads to judges hiring first-year law students, forcing both the judge and the law clerk-to-be to make plans at least two years into the future.[2] Second, proponents like Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the Second Circuit argue that the 2018 hiring plan levels the playing field for first-generation law students and those without legal connections by pushing back the judicial… [read post]