“The Courts Must Stop This Judge From Stealing an Election”: Eric H. Holder Jr. has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Anti-Abortion States Are Trying to Enforce a Modern Fugitive Slave Act; A Louisiana prosecutor’s decision to indict a New York doctor for mailing abortion pills calls to mind one of the ugliest chapters in this country’s history”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Ohio Northern sues professor for having the audacity to defend his rights in court; After terminating Scott Gerber without telling him why, Ohio Northern University filed a lawsuit to shut him up”: Zach Greenberg has this post online at the website of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

“There May Be Enough Supreme Court Votes to Save the Government; Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs; But there is a way to win them back”: Simon Lazarus has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Bruen Was Right”: Law professor J. Joel Alicea has posted this article at SSRN.

“Steve Wynn asks U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider historic press freedom ruling”: Richard N. Velotta of The Las Vegas Review-Journal has this report.

You can access the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“As the US Supreme Court girds for Trump cases, can it be an ‘effective firewall’?” John Kruzel of Reuters has this report.

“Legal battle continues over North Carolina Supreme Court election; More than three months after Election Day, the race for North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice still isn’t over as a heated legal battle continues in state court”: Sydney Haulenbeek of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Trump administration withdraws from gender-affirming care dispute at the Supreme Court”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

You can access the letter from the Solicitor General’s Office at this link.

“You Will Never Guess Which Supreme Court Justice Trump Loves Most (It’s Clarence Thomas); At last, Ginni Thomas makes her triumphant return to the White House”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor honored with UofL School of Law’s Brandeis Medal”: Killian Baarlaer of The Louisville Courier Journal has this report.

And Bruce Schreiner of The Associated Press has reports headlined “Sotomayor is asked about lower trust in Supreme Court. She points to pace of overturned precedents” and “Justice Sotomayor renews her opposition to the court’s ruling that ex-presidents have broad immunity.”

“Why the courts may be the last constraint on Trump but may not contain his power grabs”: Stephen Collinson of CNN has this news analysis.

“As Trump pushes the limits of presidential power, the courts push back”: Chris Megerian and Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press have this report.

“Wake court to hear arguments in GOP challenge of 65,000 votes in NC Supreme Court election”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

The Carolina Journal reports that “Riggs, elections board signal plans to take ballot dispute back to federal court.”

And in commentary, at NC Newsline, Gunther Peck has an essay titled “Documenting the damage of Judge Jefferson Griffin’s Supreme Court election challenge; Research shows that numerous young voters fully complied with voter registration laws.”

“Trump administration signals pivots in pending Supreme Court cases; It was once rare for an administration to change its legal position in cases before the high court; Trump did so in his first term and has signaled his intent to do it again”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.