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June 9, 2023

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Here’s a quick look at today’s top legal news.

Additional writing by Kuheli Biswas.

Afternoon Docket writer Caitlin Tremblay is on a Reuters assignment this spring and will return to the newsletter soon.

Trump faces 37 criminal counts in classified documents case

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A U.S. federal court unsealed an indictment against Donald Trump on Friday detailing 37 charges against the former president for retaining classified government documents after he left office in 2021.

Donald Trump’s lawyers, John Rowley and Jim Trusty, quit a day after the surprise announcement of the charges was made. A former aide was charged as well. U.S. courthouse activity in Miami suggests that federal prosecutors might bring criminal charges against Trump in his home state of Florida rather than in Washington. Special Counsel Jack Smith has convened grand juries in both places to hear evidence. Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has been initially assigned to oversee the case.

Here is a graphic of the timeline of events that led to charges. Read on to find out what happens next.

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Week in review …

REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

U.S. crackdown on crypto …
The SEC tightened its crackdown on crypto with lawsuits against Binance, its founder Changpeng Zhao, and Coinbase, drawing big-name defense lawyers from some of the country’s largest law firms. Other U.S. crypto exchanges are also likely to be in the line of fire. Central to the high-stakes cases is one question: What makes a crypto asset a security in the U.S.?

At the U.S. Supreme Court …
In a surprise 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Black voters and found that the Republican-drawn electoral map in Alabama violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. There were two other notable opinions this week: The court preserved the ability of people to sue for civil rights violations under an 1871 law and ruled in favor of Jack Daniel’s in its trademark dispute over a parody dog toy. Meanwhile, conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is under scrutiny for not disclosing luxury trips paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow, received an extension to file his mandatory annual financial disclosure.

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The aftershocks from Barber and Ranen’s racist, sexist email disaster

When rainmakers leave and take a big group of lawyers with them, it’s rarely a feel-good transition. Still, what’s unfolded after John Barber and Jeffrey Ranen exited 1,600-lawyer Lewis Brisbois along with nearly 140 colleagues in May to launch a competing shop (now renamed Daugherty Lordan) sets a new benchmark for disaster, Jenna Greene writes in her latest column. Lewis Brisbois said it felt a “moral obligation” to make a cache of the ex-partners offensive emails public, but Greene wonders why the firm didn’t realize it had a problem years ago.

Check out other recent pieces from all our columnists: Alison Frankel, Jenna Greene and Hassan Kanu