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Trump vs Big Law (3-23-25)

01:00 People are turning to AI chatbots for empathy and advice, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/empathy-chatbot-turing-therapist04:00 2Way: “He Is Salting the Earth”: Trump’s “Coming In and Laying Waste to These People With the Sword”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0V9iSiTgeg15:00 Axios: The robot empathy divide, https://www.axios.com/2025/03/23/empathy-chatbot-turing-therapist17:00 FT: My date … Continue reading

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Trump’s War On Big Law

🧵🧵 The Law Firms that Run DC I see a lot of articles saying how President Trump is attacking law firms in Washington DC because he is vindictive. When in fact, it has nothing to do with being vindictive, and … Continue reading

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NYT: ‘Law Firm Bends in Face of Trump Demands’

The New York Times reports: Paul, Weiss — one of three law firms targeted by President Trump as part of his retribution campaign — said it resolved the conflict by agreeing to a range of commitments… The deal materialized after … Continue reading

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Why was Big Law so heavily on the side of same-sex marriage?

Grok says: Big Law—those massive, elite law firms like Skadden, Latham, or Cravath—threw significant weight behind same-sex marriage, especially in the lead-up to Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), the Supreme Court case that legalized it nationwide. Their support wasn’t just casual; … Continue reading

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The Most Powerful Court in the World: A History of the Supreme Court of the United States

UCLA law professor Stuart Banner writes in this 2024 book: * The most partisan justice of all was Samuel Chase. Appointed to the Court in 1796 after a long career as a legislator and a judge in Maryland, Chase was … Continue reading

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