“Making Sense of the Moody Opinions In NetChoice; I think it is clear that Justice Alito lost the majority, but the resulting schizophrenic opinions still do not cohere”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Trump’s classified-documents case dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon; The Florida judge accepted a long-shot legal argument, embraced by conservatives, that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed”: Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein of The Washington Post have this report.

Charlie Savage of The New York Times reports that “Cannon’s Dismissal of Trump Case Rejects Precedents of Higher Courts; Her decision rejected what the Supreme Court said in a landmark ruling in 1974.”

C. Ryan Barber and Sadie Gurman of The Wall Street Journal report that “Federal Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Prosecution Against Trump; Judge Aileen Cannon finds special counsel was unlawfully appointed.”

Aysha Bagchi of USA Today reports that “Trump classified documents case dismissed based on ‘unconstitutional’ prosecutor appointment.”

Tom Howell Jr. and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times report that “Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Donald Trump.”

And Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, and Betsy Woodruff Swan of Politico report that “Judge dismisses Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified docs criminal case; Cannon concluded that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida at this link.

“The Only Part of Trump’s RNC Abortion Platform That Matters”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Judicial Notice (07.14.24): ‘Scorching Prejudice’; Alec Baldwin’s ‘dream team,’ shocking allegations against a (former) federal judge, a juicy suit over law faculty hiring, and Paul Hastings’s latest big-name hire.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Opinionpalooza: This SCOTUS Decision Is Actually Even More Devastating Than We First Thought; While we were worrying about the blockbuster decision to overturn Chevron, the court decided a clutch of other cases that will supercharge the dismantling of government as we know it.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“After Eight Turbulent Years, A.C.L.U.’s Legal Director to Step Down; As the Supreme Court veered to the right, David D. Cole oversaw hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration and helped secure more wins than losses before the justices”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.