Morning Docket: 12.12.25

* DOJ flops in third effort to properly indict Tish James. Only two more and the DOJ gets a free sandwich! (A ham sandwich… obviously)[National Law Journal]

* Winston & Strawn talking merger with Taylor Wessing. [Law.com International]

* Court orders release of Abrego Garcia with blistering opinion noting, among other things, that the supposed 2019 removal order that this is all about… never existed! [NBC News]

* Lawyer hospitalized after being bodyslammed at courthouse. Don’t these people realize only ICE is allowed to arbitrarily beat people in courthouses? [ABA Journal]

* Trump issues executive order banning state AI regulation. Remember when these cared about states’ rights? [CNBC]

* The president also pardoned Tina Peters, who was convicted of state crimes rendering the pardon entirely useless. [The Hill]

* David Lat talks about data centers from the perspective of Biglaw lawyers working on the deals and — hopefully — getting paid before the bubble bursts. [Original Jurisdiction]

* “Lawyer serves up ‘council estate dinner’ of chicken dippers and Sunny D.” Look, it could be worse… it could’ve been the purple stuff. [Roll on Friday]

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