* While this week more or less ended the prospect of a Trump Supreme Court pick getting confirmed after January, Alito is not retiring during the lame duck session. [NY Times]
* Which is probably the right move for him, because if Thomas or Alito tried to retire right now, it would more or less seal the deal for court expansion. [One First]
* 19-year-old ASU student will become clerk of the 4th largest county in the nation. [ABC 15]
* Trump is still fighting the Stormy Daniels case. [WUSA 9]
* Tom Goldstein forfeiture order slimmed down to $1M. [Law360]
* Texas had a 9-0 conservative supreme court and had invented a special appeals court of three right-wing judges to handle its business court cases. Now it’s a 5-4 GOP majority, the chief justice is a Democrat, and all three judges on that appellate panel are Dems. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Nicki Minaj’s lawyers would like to be paid. [Rolling Stone]
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