Morning Docket: 03.17.26

* DOJ announces that it will start hiring prosecutors straight out of law school. At this point, replacing a whole US Attorney’s Office with ChatGPT wouldn’t be a huge dropoff. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Supreme Court taking up case of Haitian and Syrian temporary status holders challenging the administration decision to arbitrarily cancel the program. But, the Supreme Court did not use its shadowy authority to overturn the existing stays blocking Trump action… maybe publicly insulting the Chief Justice does have consequences. [MS Now]

* CEO blows off lawyers and asks AI to get him out of a $250 million contract. Yadda yadda yadda, he owes $250 million. [404 Media]

* Judge voids illegal government appointment. [National Law Journal]

* Todd Blanche throws DOJ behind effort to help void guilty plea of a man with ties to Russian intelligence who was sent to prison for 6 years for making up a fake story about Joe Biden receiving a bribe. [Mother Jones]

* Children sue Elon Musk’s AI operation for generating sexually explicit images of them. [Reuters]

* RFK Jr’s bid to cancel many essential childhood vaccines blocked by federal judge. [Law360]

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