“Wisconsin Supreme Court election results: Susan Crawford defeats Brad Schimel in most expensive judicial race in US history.” Alison Dirr, Daniel Bice, Laura Schulte, and Mary Spicuzza of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report.

Reid J. Epstein of The New York Times reports that “Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk’s Millions; Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court.”

And Patrick Marley of The Washington Post reports that “Liberal projected to win Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump; Conservatives were unable to topple the 4-3 liberal majority in the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history.”

“White House Takes Highly Unusual Step of Directly Firing Line Prosecutors; Two prosecutors were dismissed out of the blue, notified by a terse one-sentence email stating no reason for the move other than that it was on behalf of the president himself”: Devlin Barrett and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this report.

“Trump’s single most aggressive attack on immigrants is now before the Supreme Court; The president claims he can deport people without due process under a wartime law, even though we aren’t at war”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“‘Only this Court’: How Trump is begging the Supreme Court to approve his agenda.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Congress Wrote a Deportation Law to Be Used ‘Sparingly’; Trump Has Other Ideas; A crackdown targeting foreign students protesting Israel’s treatment of Palestinians conflicts with free-speech protections that lawmakers added in 1990”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

“Venezuelan Migrants Ask Supreme Court to Block Deportations; Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it ‘completely at odds’ with limited wartime authority given by Congress”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says; The attorney general said the decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering an insurance executive, was in keeping with an executive order by President Trump”: Glenn Thrush and Hurubie Meko of The New York Times have this report.

And Corinne Ramey and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal report that “Attorney General Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty Against Luigi Mangione; Justice Department’s directive comes in case against suspect charged with killing of UnitedHealth executive.”

“In Adams Case, Some Say It’s Not the Time for Narrow Reading of the Law; Some legal observers say the court-appointed expert who recommended dismissing charges against Mayor Eric Adams failed to account for the extraordinary factors in the case”: Michael Rothfeld and William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times have this report.

“Turnout Strong as Wisconsin Decides Key Court Contest; More than two million people are expected to vote to decide the balance of the state’s Supreme Court, as Elon Musk is paying $50 to anyone who uploads a photo of a resident outside a precinct”: Julie Bosman and Reid J. Epstein of The New York Times have this report.

“Trump-Allied Prosecutor Looks to Undermine Biden Pardons; In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family and former White House officials about clemency”: Kenneth P. Vogel of The New York Times has this report.

“ICE Can’t Bring Back Man Deported to El Salvador Prison in Error, Agency Says; The Trump administration said the court didn’t have the authority to order his return”: Joseph De Avila of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Trump says Doug Emhoff’s law firm latest to strike a deal with him; President Donald Trump has punished multiple law firms that have employed his perceived political opponents”: Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

And C. Ryan Barber and Erin Mulvaney of The Wall Street Journal report that “Willkie Farr Becomes the Latest Big Law Firm to Strike Deal With Trump; Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff is a partner at the firm, which has agreed to similar concessions as Skadden and Paul Weiss.”

“Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court Audition Watch: Andrew Oldham Has Some Conspiracy Theories to Run By You; His concurrence in United States v. Sanders starts by suggesting that Biden was too senile to pardon people, and somehow only gets stupider from there.” Jay Willis recently had this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“136. Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions: President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges; But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Texas Abortion ‘Bounty Hunter’ Case Vexes Seventh Circuit Judges; Chief Judge refers to abortion claimants as ‘bounty hunters’; Texas state court suitable to resolve matters, amicus argues”: Megan Crepeau of Bloomberg Law has this report.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has posted the audio of today’s oral argument on YouTube at this link.

“Eat Mor Chikin: The issue whether ‘boneless chicken wings’ must be boneless recently split the Ohio Supreme Court right down the middle.” William W. Bedsworth has this essay online at The Recorder.

“Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat? Tuesday’s election, as the only statewide race in the country before November, is a crucial test for the growing backlash against the Trump Administration’s agenda.” Dan Kaufman has this article online at The New Yorker.

“Conservative US appeals court judge knocks calls to impeach jurists”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

The new episode of the “Amarica’s Constitution” podcast is titled “Wisdom From Breyer To Pryor — Special Guest Judge William Pryor.”

“Doug Emhoff’s Law Firm Is Said to Be Trump’s Next Target; The firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, also employs a top investigator for the congressional committee that documented President Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol”: Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this report.

In commentary, online at The Washington Post, columnist David Ignatius has an essay titled “Trump’s war on Big Law is a dangerous new development; The administration’s attacks are a case study in how executive power can be abused.”

And online at The New York Times, Robert S. Smith has a guest essay titled “I’m an Alum of Columbia and Paul, Weiss. There’s an Uncomfortable Lesson in Trump’s Tactics.”

“Trump Wins a Big One on Executive Power; The D.C. Circuit lets the President’s dismissals of independent agency heads stand; The Supreme Court may be next”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Strategy Behind Trump’s Repeated Musings About a Third Term; The president’s comments deflect attention from other controversies; And they freeze the field of potential successors who might steal the spotlight from a lame duck”: Tyler Pager of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Leo Sands of The Washington Post has an article headlined “Can Trump run for a third term? The 22nd Amendment flatly prevents it. Trump suggested he has ‘methods’ for seeking a third presidential term. Constitutional law scholars are skeptical.

And Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal has an article headlined “Could Trump Serve a Third Term as President? The Constitution forbids his election again, but another path isn’t entirely foreclosed, some scholars say.”

“Supreme Court Leans Toward Catholic Charity in Tax Case; The Wisconsin Supreme Court had ruled that the group’s activities in serving the state’s poor were not religious enough to qualify for a tax exemption”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court appears to back tax exemption for Catholic Charities; The Wisconsin Catholic Charities case has implications for other religiously connected nonprofits, including hospitals, and for state unemployment systems.”

“Why Judge Boasberg’s Deportation Order Is Legally Invalid: He failed to impose a bond on plaintiffs as the law requires; Other injunctions have the same deficiency.” Daniel Huff has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court Should Give Catholic Charities a Tax Exemption; The organization’s Wisconsin chapter is challenging the state’s refusal to grant it the same exemption from paying unemployment taxes given to churches, religious schools and other groups”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Fifth Circuit’s James Ho Warns of ‘Off Track’ District Judges; Claims judges need to ‘earn’ other branches’ respect; Says there’s ‘war for the soul of the judiciary’”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman has a post titled “Judge James C. Ho: ‘Fighters, Climbers, and the War for the Judiciary’; Remarks delivered at the Texas A&M Journal of Law & Civil Governance Banquet.”

“Supreme Court Laments ‘Mini Epidemic’ of Shifting Arguments; Parties too frequently alter arguments in bait and switch, justices say; Complaints come from across ideological spectrum, in varied cases”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“J&J Effort to Use Bankruptcy to End Talc Cancer Claims Rejected”: Steven Church, Jonathan Randles, and Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News have this report.

And Dietrich Knauth of Reuters reports that “US judge rejects J&J’s $10 billion baby powder settlement.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas at this link.

In response to this development, Johnson & Johnson yesterday issued a news release titled “Johnson & Johnson to Return to Tort System to Defeat Meritless Talc Claims; Company has prevailed in 16 of 17 ovarian cases tried in the last 11 years; Company will reverse approximately $7 billion from amounts previously reserved for the bankruptcy resolution.”