“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.

“John Roberts Is on a Collision Course With Trump”: Jeff Shesol has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“DOJ Accuses Judge of ‘Misconduct’ in Trans Military Ban Case; Reyes accused of mistreating DOJ attorney during hearing; Complaint will be reviewed by DC court’s chief judge”: Erik Larson and Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Kagan ’81 speaks on college days, workings of Supreme Court in Alumni Day event”: Sena Chang of The Daily Princetonian has this report.

And Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law reports that “Kagan Defends Public’s Right to Criticize US Supreme Court; Kagan weighs in on court criticism at Princeton event; Supreme Court likely facing more challenges over Trump actions.”

“Judiciary Tells Judges, Staff to Ignore Email to Explain Work; Some judges, court staff got Musk-led email to explain jobs; Experts say executive branch lacks authority over judiciary”: Suzanne Monyak and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Judicial Notice (02.23.25): How Appalling; Impeachment articles against Judge Paul Engelmayer, Paul Clement’s latest project, a notable hire by Hecker Fink, and more DOJ departures.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Revered RI judge Bruce M. Selya, known for distinctive writing style, dies at 90”: Antonia Noori Farzan of The Providence Journal has this report, which includes a link to my “20 Questions for the Appellate Judge” interview with Judge Selya from March 2024.

And Edward Fitzpatrick of The Boston Globe reports that “Federal Judge Bruce Selya, widely respected R.I. jurist known for his vocabulary, dies at 90; US Senator Jack Reed described the judge as ‘a legal legend’ and ‘a man of great wisdom, integrity, modesty, wit, and high ethical standards.’“

“Reasoning backward and forward; Birthright citizenship and the horseshoe”: Adam Unikowsky has this post at his “Adam’s Legal Newsletter” Substack site.

“Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors’ Suit Against Hungary; The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Maureen Groppe of USA Today has an article headlined “Unemployment benefits: Supreme Court says these workers can sue over delays; State labor departments are supposed to issue most of the of first payments for unemployment benefits within weeks; But there rarely are penalties.”

“George W. Bush’s Dashed Hopes; Wrapping up judicial confirmations in his first term”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Republicans have a chance to transform the Pa. Supreme Court this year”: Stephen Caruso of Spotlight PA and Carter Walker of Votebeat have this report.

“NC Supreme Court won’t fast-track lawsuit challenging 60K ballots in race for one of its own seats; Republican Jefferson Griffin wants his case to be heard by the state Court of Appeals, while Democrat Allison Riggs and the State Board of Elections wanted to bring it directly to the Supreme Court; The Supreme Court sided with Griffin on taking the slower route”: Will Doran of WRAL has this report.