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An embattled Harvard University law professor under fire on campus for representing Harvey Weinstein said Monday that he has left the Hollywood media mogul’s legal defense team.

Ronald Sullivan Jr. said the rescheduling of Weinstein’s sexual assault trial created an “unresolvable conflict” with his teaching obligations at Harvard. He said the court approved his request to withdraw from representing Weinstein at the trial, scheduled to begin in New York on Sept. 9.

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When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh is drafting opinions and asking oral argument questions, he often asks himself, “What would Justice Kennedy do?” Kavanaugh appeared with retired Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Monday in the new justice’s first major appearance since a confirmation battle marked by accusations of sexual assault—allegations strongly denied by Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh referred to Kennedy’s “legacy of civility” and said he tried to match that style, according to coverage by CNN and the Wall Street Journal.

During a Q-and-A session before judges and lawyers in Milwaukee, Kavanaugh and Kennedy said they agreed with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. when he said, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” Roberts had made the statement after President Donald Trump criticized “an Obama judge” who ruled against him.

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A 73-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to escaping from federal custody where she was serving a 15-year sentence for sending poisoned baked goods to every justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barbara March of Bridgeport, Connecticut, pleaded guilty Friday, report the Associated Press, the Washington Examiner and a press release.

March signed out of a halfway house in Washington, D.C., where she was completing her sentence in April 2018 and did not return as scheduled. She was arrested in Bridgeport in October.

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Indianapolis police have arrested two men in connection with the May 1 shooting of two judges who were in the city to attend a judicial conference.

Police have arrested Alfredo Vazquez, 23, and Brandon Kaiser, 41, report the Indianapolis Star, Fox 59 and WISH TV. Both were booked into the Marion County Jail on Sunday. The men are accused in the shooting and wounding of Clark County judges Bradley Jacobs and Andrew Adams, who have received “exceptional” hospital care, according to a family spokesperson.

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, took a parting shot at his former boss – denouncing “xenophobia, injustice and lies” – before reporting to a U.S. federal prison on Monday to begin a three-year sentence.

Cohen, who once vowed to “take a bullet” for Trump but now calls him a “con man,” arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York, about 70 miles (110 km) northwest of New York City to serve his sentence for arranging hush payments to two women who said they had sexual encounters with Trump and for lying to Congress.

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