“Judge sets trial date for Donna Adelson in 2014 murder of Dan Markel”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“A Fifth Circuit immigration order lays bare a conservative divide on the appeals court; It’s ‘mad vibes’ judges v. legal conservatives in a sign of just how far right the federal appeals court has gone that covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site about an order, and the opinions concurring therein and dissenting therefrom, that the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued late Friday night denying Texas’ emergency motion to stay trial proceedings pending en banc review.

“Military Judge to Rule on C.I.A. Torture Program in Sept. 11 Case; Lawyers argued over the rare legal doctrine in an effort to dismiss the case at the start of pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 case at Guantánamo Bay”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“Hours After Trump Argument, Cautious Reflections From Justice Kagan; The justice took part in a public conversation on the afternoon of a Supreme Court hearing about whether the former president may hold office again”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

C-SPAN has posted the video of the interview online at this link.

True confession: As you may suspect, I don’t have time to listen to every single moment of every single podcast that I link to on here. Indeed, only this week, thanks to The New Yorker’s recent profile of Sarah Isgur of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast, did I learn of and thus get to listen to an episode of that podcast titled “Lisa, Sarah, and Sarah (and David)” that was released way back on October 5, 2023.

The episode featured as guests Lisa S. Blatt and Sarah M. Harris and was very much worth a listen.

“SCOTUS Has Their Own Theories About Trump’s Eligibility”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link.

And the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast is titled “Is SCOTUS Afraid of Holding Trump to Account? The Justices were so obsessed with finding off-ramps in the Trump disqualification case, they may have set a dangerous trap for the future.”

“The Legal Coup: New Documents Reveal How Trump Lawyers Sought ‘Chaos’ to Force SCOTUS, or Whoever Else, to Anoint Trump.” Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo has this report.

“Texas conservatives test how far they can extend abortion and gender-transition restrictions beyond state lines; Recent state and local legal maneuvers signal that Texas’ conservative movement could be wading into a complicated constitutional morass the country hasn’t dealt with since before the Civil War”: Eleanor Klibanoff and William Melhado of The Texas Tribune have this report.

“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Intervene Over Claim of Absolute Immunity; After a federal appeals court rejected his arguments for criminal immunity, the former president asked the justices to pause the ruling while he pursues an appeal”: Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times have this report.