“Trump Is the Law for the Executive Branch; How the administration conforms legal interpretation to the president’s wishes”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“Trump, the NLRB, and Humphrey’s Executor: Does the Supreme Court believe in ‘independent’ federal agencies? Watch Gwynne Wilcox’s suit.” This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“‘It’s obviously retribution’: Supreme Court justices warn of Legislature’s judicial clampdown; Utah Republican lawmakers are working to pass a suite of bills targeting the state’s judiciary.” Robert Gehrke of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

“An Attack on Pregnant Workers at the 5th Circuit Could Unleash Chaos Across the Country”: Inimai Chettiar has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“DOGE Lawsuits May Occasion Scalia’s Revenge; Trump and Musk invite lawsuits that could vindicate his greatest dissent”: Columnist William McGurn will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump called himself a king. The Supreme Court must correct him. It’s not only crucial for democracy, but it’s the only way for the court to stay consistent with its own rulings.” The Boston Globe has published this editorial.

“Neal Katyal, Milbank join team suing Trump over bid to oust Democratic official”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.

“The Supreme Court will step up and Trump will back down”: Law professor Bruce Ledewitz has this essay online at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

“Supreme court justice calls out lawyer for citing AI-generated ‘phantom rulings’; Supreme Court Justice Kanfi-Steinitz exposes a lawyer’s use of artificial intelligence to fabricate legal precedents, highlighting growing concerns about AI’s misuse in Israel’s legal system”: Bini Ashkenazi of The Jerusalem Post has this report.

“Supreme Court Justices Appear Narrowly Divided Over Death Row Prisoner Plea for DNA Testing; The justices heard arguments in the case of a man on death row in Texas who claims DNA testing could spare his life”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“Straight woman lost two jobs to gay colleagues. Supreme Court will decide if she can sue. Lower courts said Marlean Ames hadn’t backed up her claim that the Ohio Department of Youth Services is ‘that unusual employer who discriminates against the majority.’” Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“Trump’s Justice Department enforcer is no stranger to complaints about his conduct”: Joshua Goodman, Jim Mustian, and Eric Tucker of The Associated Press have this report.

“Death penalty DNA debacle sparks broader questions over compliance with court orders ; Several Supreme Court justices worried that a low-profile death penalty appeal could upend fundamental judicial principles”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law reports that “US Supreme Court Weighs DNA Evidence for Death Row Defendant; Case over whether lack of DNA testing can be challenged; Justices decided similar dispute in 2023 involving Rodney Reed.”

“US Attorney’s ‘Operation Whirlwind’ Is About Retribution; Ed Martin’s pledge to investigate threats is more about chilling political speech than protecting the public”: Barbara McQuade has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Appeals Court Denies Elizabeth Holmes’s Plea to Overturn Conviction; Theranos founder had sought to reverse her 2022 guilty verdict and is currently serving 11-year prison sentence”: Meghan Bobrowsky of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians: A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world; For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.” Evan Ratliff of Wired has this report (subscription required for full access).

“While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize . . . Demolishing Section 230?” Mike Masnick of Techdirt has this post.

“The long wait for a glimpse of Luigi: Despite being out of the public eye for months, the popular frenzy around Mangione is alive and well.” Mia Sato of The Verge has this report.

“Federal judge says he will not recuse from trans athlete case over courtroom pronoun policy; ‘And no party should continue to confuse the Court’s show of respect and courtesy for bias,’ wrote Judge S. Kato Crews”: Michael Karlik of Colorado Politics has this report.

You can access the court’s ruling at this link.

“Justice Thomas lambasts writ denial of paralyzed Air National Guard member’s tort claims; The George H.W. Bush appointee said service members should be afforded the same chance at relief for government negligence as civilians”: Joe Dodson of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“The Atextual & Illegal Attack on Birthright Citizenship”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“The Supreme Court hears a challenge to a DEI rule that genuinely needs to go; Ames v. Ohio should be an easy — and potentially unanimously decided — case, assuming the Court doesn’t overreach”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“126. The ‘Fixed Star in Our Constitutional Constellation’: It’s worth spending time with Justice Robert Jackson’s 1943 majority opinion holding that the First Amendment bars compulsory flag salutes and compelled recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Statement of First Circuit Court of Appeals Regarding Passing of Judge Bruce M. Selya”: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued this news release yesterday.

“Long Live The King? Spotting the difference between ‘muscular unitary executive’ and ‘monarchy’ is getting tougher by the day.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“DOJ Slip-Ups Show Challenges of Defending Trump’s Freewheeling Approach; Judges have questioned whether government legal arguments and factual presentations are accurate”: C. Ryan Barber, Josh Dawsey, and Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Georgia Republicans push for Clarence Thomas statue by state Supreme Court”: Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy, and Adam Beam of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution have this report.

“Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to abortion clinic buffer zones; At issue was a 25-year precedent that allows local governments to create protest-free buffer zones around all health-care facilities, not just abortion clinics”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

And Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court rejects challenges to protest-free zones at abortion clinics.”

“An Important Judicial Tool Mysteriously Goes Missing at the Supreme Court; The justices have all but stopped issuing summary reversals, which are unsigned decisions used to correct clear errors by lower courts”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.

Kalvis Golde has posted on SSRN a Note titled “The Decline of Summary Reversals at the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan; The confusion surrounding the detention of migrants at the base and their sudden deportation shouldn’t be mistaken for a broader lack of planning”: Jonathan Blitzer has this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the March 3, 2025 issue of The New Yorker.

“Before he became Trump’s bulldog at DOJ, Emil Bove was nearly demoted for bellicose management style; When Bove worked in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, some colleagues saw his conduct as abusive, prompting office leaders to open an internal inquiry”: Erica Orden of Politico has this report.