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* Law firms secure big revenue gains in the first half of 2026… and yet those raises are still mostly on hold. [Law360]

* Penn State frat caught running massive cocaine ring. The school is proud of its white outs. [ABC News]

* Federal judges getting more requests to enforce rulings against the federal government as though they’re some sort of “coequal branch” or something. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Biglaw building out national security capacity in world where tariffs and arbitrary supply chain risk designations keep coming. [ABA Journal]

* New documents reveal administration sought ways to punish Colorado if the state didn’t release convicted election felon Tina Peters. [MSNow]

* Former prosecutor sues Justice Department over retaliatory firing because she previously prosecuted FACE Act crimes. [NPR]

* Fifth Circuit’s Alien Enemies Act decision may well have put the final nail in the coffin of one of the administration’s most aggressive legal maneuvers. [One First]

* Supreme Court asked to take up Texas Ten Commandments in schools mandate. [Washington Post]

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