“To Protect and Serve, or Pilfer and Steal? It’s commonly held that letting the cops do crimes is a big no-no, but thanks to a zany lower court ruling the question is in the Supreme Court’s hands.” Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

“Supreme Court case on Trump’s taxes may show if he benefits from CARES Act”: Ephrat Livni of Quartz has this report.

“Texas’ New Abortion Restrictions Will Actually Do More to Spread the Coronavirus Than Prevent It”: Law professor Sonia M. Suter has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Washington State Now Has the Most Diverse Supreme Court In History”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Republican lawmakers are planning to ask the Supreme Court to block Evers’ stay-at-home order extension”: In today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Patrick Marley and Molly Beck have a front page article that begins, “Republican legislative leaders are planning to ask the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court to block Gov. Tony Evers’ latest order to shut down the economy until late May — deepening the partisan divide over how to battle the coronavirus pandemic.”

“Activists are using Covid-19 to set limits on abortion around the world”: Annabelle Timsit of Quartz has this report.

“Alabama appeals abortion ruling during COVID-19 outbreak”: Kim Chandler of The Associated Press has this report.

“Tennessee can’t delay abortions, ‘even by a matter of days,’ amid COVID-19, judge says”: Adam Tamburin of The Tennessean has this report.

Travis Loller of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Judge: Tennessee can’t prevent abortions during coronavirus.”

And Veronica Stracqualursi of CNN reports that “Federal judge blocks Tennessee governor’s order and allows abortions to continue in state amid coronavirus.”

You can access at this link yesterday’s order of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, issued by a Senior U.S. District Judge based in Detroit, Michigan sitting by special designation.