HASTERT HEARING: Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is due in a Chicago courtroom today for sentencing on banking charges that are rooted in decades-old allegations of sexual abuse of teenage boys. The Chicago Tribune has this report, and the NLJ’s Roy Strom reports on letters from lawyers—including the former chairman of Mayer Brown—in support of the ex-Dickstein Shapiro lobbyist. We’ll have more on the sentencing later today on NLJ.com.
VOTER ID APPEAL: “The protracted battle over North Carolina’s voting rules moved to a federal appeals court on Tuesday, one day after a judge upheld the Republican-backed overhaul and increased the likelihood that the changes would be in effect for this year’s presidential election,” The New York Times reports. The Guardian reports here on the appeal, and The Washington Post here.
REPLENISHED: Jenner & Block, which lost eight government contracts lawyers to Morrison & Foerster last week, bolstered the group Monday with two additions from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and a third from Smith Pachter McWhorter. “We are strongly committed to our national Government Contracts Practice,” Jenner & Block managing partner Terrence Truax said in a statement. Gregory Petkoff and Matthew Haws joined from Wilmer and D. Joe Smith, a former Jenner partner in the 1990s, from Smith Pachter McWhorter. Smith rejoins the firm as chairman of the government contracts practice. Bloomberg BNA has more here on Jenner & Block’s three hires.
CORRUPTION CHALLENGE: The U.S. Supreme Court today takes up former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s challenge to his public corruption conviction. Politico reports here on McDonnell’s case, and the Los Angeles Times here.
SURVEILLANCE: The New York Times has this report on a case that will present a new challenge to government surveillance: “Prosecutors have told an Iraqi refugee who is accused of traveling to Syria to help a terrorist organization that he faces evidence derived from the government’s warrantless surveillance program, a disclosure that elevates the significance of the case by making the constitutionality of that program a central dispute.”
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