Morning Docket: 05.06.24

* You can't litigate your way into the Kentucky Derby. Sure but can you get in with a sweet legal concept for a name? [ABA Journal] * Steven Calabresi is back banging out bizarre legal theories faster than Kendrick posts diss tracks. His latest suggests that hush money can't be a crime because of the First Amendment which, as an actual expert explains here, is not true. [Election Law Blog] * Congress can't take bribes... that's just for the Supreme Court, you fool! [Law360] * Davis Polk planning to poke rivals in the eye as it leans into lateral recruiting. [Bloomberg Law News] * Trump attorneys citing breakdown in client relationship told they still can't leave the case without more. [CNBC] * RNC chief counsel gig is open. Again. [NBC News] * Lawyer's license suspended after six-figures of client funds disappear. [Yahoo]

145th Kentucky Derby

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* You can’t litigate your way into the Kentucky Derby. Sure but can you get in with a sweet legal concept for a name? [ABA Journal]

* Steven Calabresi is back banging out bizarre legal theories faster than Kendrick posts diss tracks. His latest suggests that hush money can’t be a crime because of the First Amendment which, as an actual expert explains here, is not true. [Election Law Blog]

* Congress can’t take bribes… that’s just for the Supreme Court, you fool! [Law360]

* Davis Polk planning to poke rivals in the eye as it leans into lateral recruiting. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Trump attorneys citing breakdown in client relationship told they still can’t leave the case without more. [CNBC]

* RNC chief counsel gig is open. Again. [NBC News]

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* Lawyer’s license suspended after six-figures of client funds disappear. [Yahoo]

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