“Pam Bondi’s Jeffrey Epstein stunt reveals populism’s limits; The attorney general’s promised revelations about Jeffrey Epstein’s associations were a dud”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Seven top D.C. prosecutors demoted in purge by Trump U.S. attorney; U.S. Attorney Ed Martin wiped out office leadership, including prosecutors of top Trump advisers and allies, Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy and public corruption”: Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has this report.

And Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, and Byron Tau of The Associated Press report that “Trump’s top prosecutor in DC demotes several supervisors who handled politically sensitive cases.”

“Groups urge Supreme Court to keep deadline for USAID to pay $2 billion; Global health groups urged the Supreme Court to deny a Trump administration request to block a deadline to restart nearly $2 billion in humanitarian relief”: Annie Gowen and Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post have this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Nobel laureate David Card recognized at Princeton Alumni Day”: Emily Aronson of Princeton University has this report.

Princeton University has posted on YouTube a video titled “Elena Kagan talks about her life, career and the Supreme Court with Princeton President.”

“Was it sexist for Brad Schimel to say liberal justices, all women, were ‘driven by their emotions’?” Columnist Daniel Bice has this essay online at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

And Scott Bauer of The Associated Press reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate’s criticism of liberal justices called ‘disgusting.’“

“Luigi Mangione Says Pennsylvania Search, Arrest Were Illegal; Lawyer says police failed to read Mangione his rights; Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in December”: David Voreacos and Patricia Hurtado of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Trump Birthright Order Is Left Frozen by Appeals Court; Government argued injunction should only apply to plaintiffs; Public interest favors nationwide injunction, Fourth Cir. says”: Mallory Culhane of Bloomberg Law has this report on an order that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

And in other coverage, Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Appeals court maintains injunction against Trump birthright order.”

“Montana ‘Trafficking’ Bill Shows Endgame for Abortion Rights Foes”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Elon Musk’s Attacks On Judges Are Getting More Racist and More Dangerous; Of the many federal judges who have blocked the unelected billionaire’s efforts to take over the government, you can probably guess which ones he is angriest about”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Trump’s biggest power grab just reached the Supreme Court; Trump’s lawyers just revealed their plan to place him in charge of federal spending”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alito blasts 9th Circuit in San Jose police shooting case”: Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Justice Dept. hires for court battles as Trump slashes other agencies; The Justice Department is recruiting and hiring lawyers to the civil division to defend Trump administration policies against an onslaught of legal challenges”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

“Congress Can Easily Green-Light DOGE; A simple sentence in the reconciliation bill would resolve legal concerns”: Law professor Jed Rubenfeld will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Indicted SCOTUSblog Publisher Tom Goldstein Appeals Jail Release Conditions”: Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman of The National Law Journal has this report.

You can access today’s redacted court filing at this link.

“Should the Charges Against Mayor Adams Now Be Dismissed With Prejudice . . . Because of Prosecutorial Misconduct?” Paul Cassell has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Bill Frist’s Huge Task in 2005: How to thwart the filibuster of judicial nominees.” Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“127. Chief Justice Roberts’s Administrative Stay in the Foreign Aid Funding Cases: There are two very different ways to understand Wednesday night’s order temporarily absolving the government from spending $1.5 billion in obligated funds; We’ll know soon enough which one is correct.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Justice Department Says Pardons for Jan. 6 Riot Cover Other Crimes; Prosecutors siding with some defendants who argue pardon absolves them of additional offenses, some discovered during investigations of Capitol riot”: C. Ryan Barber and Scott Calvert have this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The man trying to turn prosecutors loose against Trump’s enemies; Ed Martin went from a little-known conservative activist to US Attorney for DC — all because of Stop the Steal”: Andrew Prokop of Vox has this report.

“Fight to rein in US guns goes international at SCOTUS; Mexico says its claims against firearms manufacturers have nothing to do with the Second Amendment, but rather stopping the flow of illegal weapons fueling cartel violence”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“DOJ Seeks Rapid Lawyer Transfers to Defend Trump Agenda in Court; Lawyers urged to move to unit inundated with Trump suits; Normal seniority requirements may be waived for elite posts”: Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“As South Carolina prepares for a firing squad execution, here are how many have gone wrong”: Matthew T. Hall has this essay online at The State of Columbia, South Carolina.

“Maine’s strongest gun control law after Lewiston mass shooting is now in limbo; Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey appealed a judge’s ruling that the new law violates the Second Amendment”: Phil Hirschkorn of News Center Maine has this report.

“5th Circuit rebuffs ruling against Planned Parenthood; The unanimous ruling overturns a decision by Texas U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Donald Trump appointee”: Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico has this report on a non-precedential per curiam decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Nels Peterson to Become New Chief Justice”: The Supreme Court of Georgia issued this news release today.

“Five Years of the Texas Appellate Law Podcast: A Look Back and a Fresh Start.” D. Todd Smith has this blog post today.

“Quinn Emanuel breaks a barrier with $3,000 rates, but other firms close in”: David Thomas and Mike Scarcella of Reuters have this report.

“‘You don’t snitch’: Donna Adelson alleges jail abuse as she seeks release ahead of trial.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

And Nicholas McEntyre of The New York Post has an article headlined “Florida grandma’s shocking excuse for trying to board Vietnam flight before she was arrested in alleged murder-for-hire plot.”

“Prosecutors abandon effort to reverse Adnan Syed’s conviction; The move is a sharp contrast with the decision of the former Baltimore City state’s attorney, but it doesn’t seek more prison time for Syed”: Omari Daniels and Dan Morse of The Washington Post have this report.

“Prosecutors seeking ‘retribution’ for Trump can be disbarred; State bar associations and courts can discipline — and even disbar — lawyers for unlawful conduct”: Bruce E. Yannett has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block USAID funding order; Nearly $2 billion in foreign aid has been suspended despite a lower court’s order, and the administration faced a midnight deadline for disbursing it”: Ann E. Marimow and Annie Gowen of The Washington Post have this report.

“The Supreme Court faces the absurdly difficult problem of where to put nuclear waste; America’s worst NIMBY problem comes to the Supreme Court”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Supreme Court Poised to Rule for Straight Woman in Discrimination Case; Justices across the ideological spectrum and lawyers on both sides agreed that an appeals court erred in requiring members of majority groups to meet a heightened burden”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court seems poised to lower bar for Whites to sue for job bias; Marlean Ames challenged rulings requiring members of majority groups to meet a higher bar to prove job discrimination than groups that traditionally face bias.”

And Jess Bravin and Erin Mulvaney of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court Signals Minority Groups Get No Edge in Bias Suits; Amid DEI backlash, justices review the standard for groups that historically haven’t experienced discrimination.”

“Kansas Senate Republicans take up plan to rewrite constitution to elect Supreme Court justices”: Sherman Smith of Kansas Reflector has this report.

“Mexico prepares to appear before US Supreme Court in suit against gun manufacturers”: Belen Zapata and Max Saltman of CNN have this report.