“Student asks Supreme Court to say he can wear T-shirt saying ‘There are only two genders’; In past decisions, the Supreme Court has allowed students to wear arm bands in protest of the Vietnam War but not to hold up a ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ banner”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

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

“White, heterosexual woman twice replaced by gay co-workers to get Supreme Court hearing”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“In Moving to Stop Adams Case, Career Lawyer Sought to Stave Off Deeper Crisis; A high-stakes decision for public corruption prosecutors at the Justice Department revealed a generational difference”: Devlin Barrett, Adam Goldman, Glenn Thrush, and William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times have this report.

“First Test of Trump’s Power to Fire Officials Reaches Supreme Court; The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to fire independent agency leader; The administration is seeking legal support from the conservative high court to back its efforts to expand the power of the presidency.”

And Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire Ethics Watchdog; Lower courts blocked dismissal, citing federal law requiring misconduct to remove official before his term ends.”

You can view the court filing at this link.

“Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn; Defendants argue that Trump pardons should absolve them of additional crimes, some discovered during investigations of the Capitol riot”: Scott Calvert, Tawnell D. Hobbs, and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“What Happens If President Trump Defies a Judge’s Order?” David Voreacos of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Appeals court rejects Trump in showdown over firing of ethics watchdog; The D.C. Circuit panel voted, 2-1, against the president’s bid to immediately remove Hampton Dellinger”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report on an order that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

“This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them”: Law professors Trevor W. Morrison and Richard H. Pildes have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Justice Department fires multiple immigration judges amid case backlog; A union representing the judges said it ‘makes no sense’ to make cuts to immigration courts as Trump promises to carry out mass deportations, which must go through the courts”: Julia Ainsley, Aaron Gilchrist, Nnamdi Egwuonwu, and Megan Lebowitz of NBC News have this report.

“Can Trump Defy the Supreme Court? The theoretical power to do so runs far ahead of presidential practice.” Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“The TikTok Ban Withers Away; As Apple and Google put TikTok back in app stores, Trump’s non-enforcement policy threatens to permanently nullify Congress’s law”: Alan Z. Rozenshtein has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“The Gangster Presidency: The DoJ’s Eric Adams shakedown sets off a series of defiant and courageous resignations.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“The Situation: No Way Out; On the necessity and impossibility of being a federal prosecutor under Donald Trump.” Benjamin Wittes has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

And The Free Press has published an editorial titled “Danielle Sassoon’s Courage and the Rule of Law: The Justice Department ordered New York’s top federal prosecutor to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams; She refused.”