“Appeals court allows Trump to reinstate two executive orders targeting DEI; The three-member appeals panel lifted a lower court’s injunction that had put the policy on hold”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on an order accompanied by three concurring opinions that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“Trump Expands Attacks on Law Firms, Singling Out Paul, Weiss; Experts have warned that the president’s efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to obtain legal counsel”: Devlin Barrett and Tyler Pager of The New York Times have this report.

“Judge rejects DOJ’s effort to expand reach of Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon; U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, called the Justice Department’s position irrational”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report on a ruling that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued Thursday.

“Pam Bondi reshapes the DOJ around Trump’s priorities; Some people thought Attorney General Pam Bondi would resist efforts to politicize the DOJ; Instead, critics say, she has embraced them”: Ken Dilanian of NBC News has this report.

“Courts could be last hope to thwart Trump impoundment; President Trump’s slash-and burn overhaul of federal funding should have ignited an existential crisis for lawmakers, since they alone hold the power of the purse; Instead, it may be up to the courts to mend the constitutional wounds”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Iowa Supreme Court dismisses alleged UIHC illicit insemination case; A case alleging a former University of Iowa OB-GYN chair non-consensually inseminated patients with his own sperm in the 1950s cannot go to trial”: Jami Martin-Trainor of The Daily Iowan has this report.

“The Detention of Mahmoud Khalil Is a Flagrant Assault on Free Speech; Whatever legal rationale the Trump Administration cooks up, deporting protesters for things they say is wildly un-American — and possibly unpopular, too”: Jay Caspian Kang has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Legal experts pan Trump’s Supreme Court appeal on birthright citizenship”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“The judge who contributed to Judge Griffin’s legal fund won’t hear his election case”: Lynn Bonner of NC Newsline has this report.

And The Carolina Journal reports that “Appellate judges reject full court hearing of Griffin-Riggs election dispute.”

“Supreme Court Revives Long-Running Nazi Art Restitution Case; The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a dispute between heirs and a Spanish museum”: Christopher Kuo of The New York Times has this report.

“Ninth Circuit dismisses sanctions against Alan Dershowitz for Kari Lake election suit; The panel agreed that the trial judge followed the law by imposing sanctions for bringing false claims into court but reversed the order due to a lack of precedent”: Joe Duhownik of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Full 11th Circuit upholds Florida age limit for gun buys, rejecting NRA challenge; Although the appeals court ruled the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act constitutional, Florida’s attorney general announced his office would not defend the law if the case is appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News Service has this report on an 8-to-4 decision that the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“Federal Appeals Court Dismisses Florida Case Over Gender Identity in Schools; The mother at the center of the case, January Littlejohn, was a guest of the first lady Melania Trump at President Trump’s speech to Congress last week”: Emily Cochrane of The New York Times has this report.

My earlier coverage of Wednesday’s Eleventh Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“The Unraveling of Trump’s Plan to Detain Thousands of Migrants at Guantanamo; The U.S. military has started making plans to draw down personnel deployed to the naval base in the coming weeks”: Shelby Holliday, Tarini Parti, and Nancy A. Youssef of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Trump Uses Speech at Justice Dept. to Air Bitter Grievances Against His Enemies; Mr. Trump veered from his prepared remarks to launch into a bitter spiel in which he lashed out at lawyers and former prosecutors by name in a venue dedicated to the impartial administration of justice”: Glenn Thrush, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, and Tyler Pager of The New York Times have this report.

“James Ho Supreme Court Audition Watch, Week 8: Working Hovertime; The Fifth Circuit’s thirstiest culture warrior is running out of ways to debase himself in public.” Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Trump’s Attack On Perkins Coie Sends Chills Down My Spine; That’s what one federal judge said about the executive order targeting Perkins Coie — and I agree with her wholeheartedly”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Don’t Condemn Lawyers Because You Don’t Like Their Clients; Law firm Perkins Coie looks likely to win at least part of its suit against President Trump but there’s a larger principle at stake”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda”: Carrie Johnson has this audio segment on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”