* The grand jury that investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election heard from more than 60 witnesses. The transcripts are now available. [Lawfare]
* A dive into how John Roberts growing up in a whites-only neighborhood brought us to Callais. [Slate]
* Former Willkie Farr lawyer became the key cooperator in insider trading case. [Reuters]
* Todd Blanche tells CBS News that he doesn’t know anything about Jim Comey getting indicted over “Sea Shellgate” and blames the whole thing on local prosecutors and that “I don’t even know their names.” Apparently the “we spent 9 months investigating this at the highest levels” line from the week before wasn’t testing well. [CBS News]
* Trump loses new, revised tariffs case. Surely he will respond with dignity and grace. [AP News]
* The UCLA Federalist Society event that became a right-wing “campus free speech crisis” story was… not at all what how it was portrayed on social media. Shocking! [Dorf on Law]
* Kash Patel reportedly ordering polygraphs of more than two dozen current and former close staff in desperate effort to identify those talking to the press about drinking escapades… that he claimed never happened anyway. [MSNow]
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