“Supreme Court Poised to Curb Scope of Environmental Reviews; Several justices indicated that a federal agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Justin Jouvenal and Maxine Joselow of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court seems likely to narrow environmental reviews for projects; An 88-mile rail line in Utah has become a proxy battle over federal authority.”

“Kash Patel Doesn’t Belong at the FBI; At the NSC, he was less interested in his assigned duties than in proving his loyalty to Donald Trump”: John Bolton will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“A Court Called Out Clarence Thomas’ Gun Extremism. He Didn’t Take It Well.” Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Trump’s Misguided Attack on Birthright Citizenship; He almost certainly lacks the power to end it, and doing so would swell the illegal population”: Columnist Jason L. Riley will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Jones Day adds 10 U.S. Supreme Court clerks from the October 2023 Term”: Jones Day issued this news release today.

“The Truce Over Interstate Abortion Fights Is About to Come to a Bitter End”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Deep Dive #1: All the Presidents’ Judges.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Legalytics” Substack site.

“The Skrmetti Opinion the SCOTUS Conservatives Seem to Want ‘Won’t Write’”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”