Morning Docket: 07.29.19

* The House Judiciary Committee has (finally) opened an impeachment investigation against President Trump, and has asked a federal judge to supply subpoenaed grand jury information related to Robert Mueller’s probe. [Washington Post]

* “I was OK this last term. I expect to be OK next term. And after that we’ll just have to see.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no immediate plans for retirement, saying that she’ll continue to take things “year by year” and “stay on this job as long as [she] can do it full steam.” [CNN]

* In case you missed it, here’s what SCOTUS justices have done on their summer vacation thus far: they’re allowing the Trump administration to use $2.5 billion of funds that were previously allocated to the Defense Department to start construction on the border wall. [New York Times]

* Just as LeClairRyan finds itself gasping its presumptive last breaths, the firm finds itself on the wrong end of a gender pay discrimination case. [Big Law Business]

* A federal judge has dismissed Nick Sandmann’s $250 million defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post. This probably means that Sandmann’s similar suits against CNN and NBC will be dismissed soon as well. [USA Today]

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