“Announcing Final Decisions PLLC”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“The Justice Department’s Defense of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Is Vapid and Embarrassing; In a judiciary dominated by conservatives, the Trump administration’s worst legal arguments stand a better chance than ever of carrying the day”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Who Wins at the Supreme Court? Exploring the Patterns of Victory in Major Case Areas; An in-depth look at the dominant players, key issue areas, and repeat victors shaping the outcomes of Supreme Court rulings.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Legalytics” Substack site.

“The Next Trump Judges Will Be So Much Worse; The Federalist Society’s waning influence in the Trump White House means that his next nominees will be considerably further to the right, and personally committed to the work of protecting Donald Trump”: Molly Coleman has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Prosecution Seeks Pause in Sept. 11 Case Until Trump Administration Is in Place; The new administration does not yet have a confirmed defense secretary, attorney general or solicitor general in place”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“New Research Finds Potential Alternative to Abortion Pill Mifepristone; The research could further complicate the polarized politics of abortion because the drug in the study is the key ingredient in a pill used for emergency contraception”: Pam Belluck and Emily Bazelon of The New York Times have this report.

“Bonus 118: On the Credibility of the Department of Justice; Three days into the second Trump administration, there are already reasons to be gravely concerned about the extent to which government lawyers will turn square corners with (and in) the Supreme Court.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Trust the ichthyologists; But verify”: Adam Unikowsky has this post at his Substack site, “Adam’s Legal Newsletter.”

“Trump Must Pick Judges Who Have Publicly Demonstrated Their Courage; The most important predictor of behavior on the bench is judicial courage”: Josh Blackman has this post at the Civitas Outlook site.

“Trump Gives TikTok an Illegal Amnesty; The tech firms that host the app are putting their shareholders at risk by failing to comply with the law”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court Seems Ready to Reject Limit on Excessive-Force Suits; The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to ‘the moment of threat’”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court takes on accountability for police shootings; Ashtian Barnes, an unarmed Black man, was fatally shot by a Texas officer following a routine traffic stop for unpaid tolls.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Police conduct in deadly traffic stop under Supreme Court microscope; The justices seemed likely to agree that courts can look beyond the exact moments force was used to determine if it was unreasonable.”

And Lawrence Hurley of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court leans toward reviving excessive claim against cop who killed a Black man in a traffic stop; The case over the death of Ashtian Barnes in Houston focuses on the moments leading up to the deadly shooting.”

“In blow to GOP, NC Supreme Court won’t immediately act on lawsuit to throw out 60,000 ballots; In a blow to Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for a seat on the state Supreme Court, that court has ordered that it won’t fast-track his effort to throw out 60,000 ballots”: Will Doran of WRAL has this report.

“Race for North Carolina Supreme Court seat is last uncertified statewide contest in the nation”: Rusty Jacobs of WUNC has this report.

“Crisis pregnancy centers ask Supreme Court to revive suit against New Jersey”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report.

“Courthouse News Loses Bid for Remote Virginia State Court Access”: Ufonobong Umanah of Bloomberg News has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“Alexi Ehrlich, ’21, to Clerk for Justice Gorsuch”: Sharon Morioka of Michigan Law has this report.

“Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s elephants are not ‘legal persons’ under the law, Colorado Supreme Court rules; The Colorado Supreme Court upheld El Paso County District Court’s June ruling on Tuesday”: Lauren Penington and Katie Langford of The Denver Post have this report.

And Monique Merrill of Courthouse News Service has an article headlined “Elephants denied ‘personhood’ must sue to leave zoo: Colorado Supreme Court; The high court rejected arguments that elephants qualify as ‘persons’ under state law and suggested animal advocates turn to the legislative branch to expand legal rights.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Colorado at this link.

“Riggs seeks earliest possible oral argument in NC Supreme Court election dispute”: The Carolina Journal has this report.

“UT alumnus appointed as Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice”: Isaiah Williams of The Daily Texas has this report.

“Great-grandson of the man who established birthright citizenship slams Trump’s new executive order; ‘He’s feeding off the American mindset, and it’s not a healthy one,’ said the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, whose 1898 Supreme Court case helped guarantee birthright citizenship”: Kimmy Yam of NBC News has this report.

“Supreme Court seems skeptical of court-shopping claim against vape makers; The FDA says vaping companies are improperly gaming the court system, filing claims in an appeals court they think will be sympathetic to them”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court Questions Prosecutors’ Focus on Sex in Capital Case; The court instructed an appeals court to reconsider whether lurid evidence tainted the trial of Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court directs new review of death row case from woman who says she was sex shamed; The woman’s lawyers say sexually charged descriptions casting her as an unchaste wife peaked when the prosecution called her a ‘slut puppy’ and held up a pair of her thong underwear.”

And Nolan Clay of The Oklahoman reports that “Oklahoma’s only woman on death row says prosecutors sex shamed her; US Supreme Court orders review.”

“Trump’s TikTok Executive Order and the Limits of Executive Non-Enforcement”: Alan Z. Rozenshtein has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Why Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship Will Backfire at the Supreme Court”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The single most unconstitutional thing Trump did yesterday, explained; The president cannot unilaterally repeal parts of the 14th Amendment.”

“How Trump’s TikTok Ban Reprieve Could Work; The president can’t suspend a duly enacted law but he can use prosecutorial discretion to achieve the same end”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Breaking Circuit Boundaries: The Surprising Power of Inter-Circuit Citations; What happens when federal appeals judges break out of their own circuit’s bubble? A closer look reveals a fascinating web of influence that could reshape the future of federal law.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Legalytics” Substack site.

“Could Wendi Adelson be Implicated? | Vinnie Politan Investigates Podcast Video”: Court TV has posted this video on YouTube.

“Birthright citizenship and other Trump executive actions likely to face pushback from the courts; Policies like seeking to end birthright citizenship and refusing to spend money allocated by Congress could end up at the Supreme Court”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Supreme Court Unmoved By Fifth Circuit Forum Shopping Concern; US says e-cigarette makers trying to game the system; Justices looked to text of law, rather than forum shopping concerns”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“A supremely strange start at the Arkansas Supreme Court”: Sonny Albarado has this essay online at Arkansas Advocate.

“Conservative Fifth Circuit Is an Outlier for Supreme Court; Fifth Circuit is more than 20% of high court workload; E-cigarette dispute highlights prevalence of judge shopping”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Hello, Ginni Thomas: Will Clarence Thomas stay on the bench long enough to keep his wife relevant?” Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate.

“Trump signs executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship; The president issued several actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement”: Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti, Arelis R. Hernández, and Dan Lamothe of The Washington Post have this report.

“‘Split-second decision’: Supreme Court returns to the question of police killings; The court will hear arguments this week over the ‘moment of the threat doctrine,’ which addresses how much time can be taken into consideration when police kill people”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Jefferson Griffin’s Gambit For a State Supreme Court Seat; Months before Election Day, a state board and a Republican-appointed rules commission said overseas voters didn’t need to provide a photo ID; Now the GOP candidate wants some of their ballots — all from heavily Democratic counties — tossed”: Jeffrey Billman and Michael Hewlett of The Assembly have this report.

And Doug Bock Clark of ProPublica reports that “North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Years Earlier, That’s How He Voted. Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in 2019 and 2020.”