Prosecutors have appended Qatar to the inventory of nations from which Senator Robert Menendez is alleged to have received funds. There is speculation that Menendez may have been trying to indirectly deplete financial support for Hamas. For more insights, refer to the Washington Post’s report.
Meanwhile, federal law necessitates that emergency room doctors prioritize saving lives, a mandate which includes performing life-saving abortions. On this issue, Texans, who dispute the existence of the Supremacy Clause, argued that their state’s abortion laws ought to override federal law. Remarkably, the Fifth Circuit concurred with this stance. More on this can be found in the Texas Tribune.
Speaking of the Supremacy Clause and Texas, the federal government has recently requested the Supreme Court’s intervention regarding Texas’s attempts to instantiate its own border policy. For more depth on this matter, reference is offered to Bloomberg Law News.
In other news, Tom Girardi has officially become a defendant in Beverly Hills, with a court ruling him fit for trial. This story is more thoroughly covered in Law360.
A former bankruptcy judge maintains that he is immune from litigation for his court actions, even if said actions advantaged a lawyer with whom he was having a covert relationship. Further details can be found in the Reuters report.
Finally, an alliance of law professors is working towards the development of generative AI policies. For a detailed account, refer to the ABA Journal’s article.