* After the Trump family and his administration prevailed upon Romanian officials to release suspected international sex traffickers, the Tate brothers are now set to be extradited to the UK. [Forbes]
* Litigation funders getting squeezed on both sides. Some states have attempted to ban their work, and elsewhere investors are putting money behind law firms directly rather than work with a funder. [Bloomberg Law News]
* ACLU gearing up to take on state surveillance tactics, which are much more Orwellian than you might think. [WIRED]
* Woman who began law school at 47 now heads an all-woman law firm. [People]
* Hawaii Supreme Court rejects effort to graft U.S. Supreme Court due process musings onto a state constitutional issue… and then launches a wide-ranging critique of SCOTUS running roughshod over constitutional law generally. [Slate]
* Trump calls on federal judges to rewrite science textbook to better match his administration’s priorities. [Reuters]
* James Comey advises Todd Blanche to “bone up on the rules.” Todd Blanche then presumably started trying to figure out if “bone up” can be prosecuted as a violent threat. [NBC News]
* Judge’s lawyer says his client is still fit for the bench despite record of… problematic comments. [ABA Journal]
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