“Judicial Notice (08.25.24): Irreconcilable Differences; An injudicious judge, gun laws post-Brahimi, the breakup of Bennifer, and WilmerHale partnership news.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“They didn’t submit a photocopy that wasn’t required; Why abortion won’t be on the Arkansas ballot in November”: Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”

“Nvidia has more friends than Facebook in cases at US Supreme Court”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.

“Trump’s Latest Abortion Comments Expose the Bind He’s In”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Why Is Donald Trump Stalling With His Supreme Court Shortlist? When people despise the Supreme Court you built, it’s sort of tricky to talk about what you’d do next with the Supreme Court.” Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Federal judge tosses Kansas machine gun possession case on Second Amendment grounds”: Jonathan Shorman of The Kansas City Star has this report.

Jason Alatidd of The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that “Kansas judge dismisses machine gun and Glock switch charges, citing 2nd Amendment.”

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “US judge tosses machine gun possession case, calls ban unconstitutional.”

And in commentary, online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns; The Supreme Court’s Bruen decision will keep on creating chaos until it is overruled.”

You can access last Wednesday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas at this link.

“The federal courts are full of judges who could retire but won’t. There is little to be done about it. Democrats were able to get President Joe Biden to step aside after a pressure campaign. But it’s much more difficult to force out a federal judge.” Lawrence Hurley and Elleiana Green of NBC News have this report.