“‘Nothing like this in American history’: the crisis of Trump’s assault on the rule of law; Even if the supreme court were to resist the president’s onslaught, it has little means to enforce its decisions.” Ed Pilkington of The Guardian has this report.

“With Congress on the sidelines, judges and world leaders defy Trump; Federal judges have lifetime tenure, and foreign leaders answer to their own citizenry; For now, they’re acting as the emergency brakes to Trump as he pushes to remake the world”: Peter Nicholas and Garrett Haake of NBC News have this report.

“MAGA mirrors far left in calling Justice Barrett a ‘DEI hire.’ Knock it off. MAGA supporters are starting to mirror the far left. True conservatives applaud the independence of the Supreme Court and the judicial branch of our government.” Columnist Ingrid Jacques has this essay online at USA Today.

“The Urgent Supreme Court Case That’s Not Getting Enough Attention”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Amy Coney Barrett Isn’t What the Conservative Legal Movement Expected; The Supreme Court’s second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hack—to the increasing consternation of MAGA”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat; Executive orders against Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have chilled industry”: Erin Mulvaney and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

In commentary, online at The New York Times, columnist David French has an essay titled “The MAGA Culture War Comes for Georgetown Law.”

And Chris Geidner has a Substack post titled “Trump lashes out, acting as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived opponents; The Trump administration is testing out whether Trump can get away with taking a clearly more authoritarian path forward; We must respond accordingly.”

“The Constitutional Truth At The Heart Of The DOGE Cases: Elon Musk cannot, as a legal matter, be simultaneously leading DOGE and also not leading DOGE.” You can access yesterday’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.