* Lawmakers grilled Pam Bondi over the DOJ cover-up of the Epstein files, which included both improper redactions of perpetrators and illegal disclosures of victims. Bondi responded by yelling a lot. [Reuters]
* The last remaining enforcement attorney in the Chicago CFTC office resigned. It’s like the movie The Purge except for pork belly futures. [Barrons]
* Prosecutor who left Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office joins the Don Lemon defense team. [ABA Journal]
* Trump fires the official U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York to continue using the guy squatting on the job with no lawful authority. They say “no person is illegal,” but then how do you explain John Sarcone? [New York Law Journal]
* Increasingly irate that the public hates him, Donald Trump started threatening to sue the media for reporting his polling numbers. So Gallup is going to stop polling. [The Hill]
* Tom Goldstein testifies to losing millions on poker in 2016. [Law360]
* Clients are figuring out what we already told them — law firms aren’t going to pass on AI savings. [Artificial Lawyer]
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