* Supreme Court refuses to overturn state supreme court ruling over Missouri’s maps. Federal district judge — sitting alone, as opposed to the three-judge panels required for this — decides to go ahead and impose the opposite result anyway. [Guardian]
* Ogletree opening new office with poached Littler team. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* Mail-in balloting order an assault on federalism. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Court tosses $125 million award over magistrate judge’s undisclosed tight personal ties to lawyer, crediting argument that party wouldn’t have agreed to let the magistrate judge decide the matter had it known. [JD Journal]
* ABA accreditors vote to repeal diversity standard now that the government doesn’t care about ABA accreditation anymore. [Inside Higher Ed]
* Administration asks Supreme Court to salvage its effort to haphazardly purge voter rolls based on suspected immigration status. [NOTUS]
* Appeals panel bars IRS from handing private tax records over to ICE, calling government’s argument “weak sauce.” [The New Republic]
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