by HolAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | American Legal News
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a talented Biglaw litigator has decided to depart their firm, one that capitulated to Donald Trump and struck a deal with the administration that will provide millions in pro bono payola to be used to advance conservative...
by HolAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here. YOU BET I WENT to the “No Kings” protest. Despite all the sage advice on how to stay below the radar, I’m outing myself. I’m telling you I was...
by HolAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | American Legal News
The Unbearable Lightness of TikTok has been an annoying ongoing saga. I’d prefer a hard yes or no to a waffling will they/won’t they prospect of an incoming ban, but I’m ultimately not the one who calls the shots — I just report them. We are currently two DOJ...
by HolAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | American Legal News
Back in June 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday, memorializing the end of slavery in the United States. Before that momentous occasion, in the wake of protests that swept the nation following the George Floyd murder,...
by HolAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | American Legal News
The fascism is real, y’all. Current New York City Comptroller and candidate for mayor Brad Lander was arrested by masked federal ICE agents as he exited an immigration courtroom. There’s video of the incident, and it’s deeply chilling, particularly in a so-called...
by HolAdmin | Jun 18, 2025 | American Legal News
Befitting a nation run by a casino boss looking to build hotels in shady dictatorships, the United States put a stop to its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement efforts when Trump took office. But you can’t keep a good statute down and the FCPA is back with new...
