“Abortions hold steady but fewer cross state lines for procedure, study finds; The decrease in interstate travel for abortions comes as telehealth providers, which can mail abortion pills to patients, rise in prominence”: Tobi Raji of The Washington Post has this report.

“Former top government lawyers are jumping into the Big Law fight against Trump; Some of the nation’s former solicitors general are working to defend law firms targeted by the Trump administration”: Daniel Barnes of Politico has this report.

“Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump: Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

And Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Donald Trump Tries to Run Harvard; Many of his demands on the school exceed his power under the Constitution.”

“Justice Department must provide details of attempts to return illegally deported man, judge says; The order that will require records and sworn answers from Trump administration officials furthers a legal standoff in the case of Kilmar Abrego García”: Steve Thompson and Katie Mettler of The Washington Post have this report.

Jacob Gershman, C. Ryan Barber, and Victoria Albert of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump and Judiciary in Escalating Standoff Over Wrongfully Deported Migrant; Judge demands more answers from government about what it has done to facilitate migrant’s return.”

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration’s refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man.”

And in commentary, Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Trump, Abrego Garcia and the Courts; The President may win this showdown, but by taunting the Supreme Court he is tempting fate later on cases of far greater consequence.”

“Justice Dept. restricts employees’ social media posts; The policy comes as some of the department’s top Trump-appointed leaders post openly partisan content or messages deriding defendants on their social media accounts”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post has this report.

“Palin Libel Retrial Against The New York Times Begins; In opening statements, lawyers for Sarah Palin and The Times each presented arguments on whether the editorial board had published a statement knowing it was false”: Katie Robertson of The New York Times has this report.

And Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service reports that “Retrial of Sarah Palin’s defamation case against NY Times kicks off; The onetime ‘maverick’ vice presidential candidate returned to Manhattan federal court to retry her libel claims, which have been thrice rejected under First Amendment protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”

“This Isn’t the First Time Trump Has Mistakenly Deported Someone; President Trump says he is powerless to retrieve a Salvadoran man who was deported because of an administrative error; But he has done so before”: Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times has this report.

“When the Fight for Democracy Is Personal: Allison Riggs discusses the protracted legal battle for her seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and what it means for the entire country.” David A. Graham has this article online at The Atlantic.

“US judge to question Trump officials’ refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia”: Michael Kunzelman and Ben Finley of The Associated Press have this report.

And Nicholas Riccardi of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That’s likely illegal.”

“Meet the Conservative Lawyer Helping Harvard Take On Trump”: David Voreacos of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Pizzas Sent to Judges’ Homes in Name of Judge’s Murdered Son; Hundreds of pizzas sent to judges amid threats; Salas’ son was murdered in 2020 at their home”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And MSNBC has posted online a video titled “NJ Judge: My murdered son’s name was on pizzas sent to intimidate other judges.”

“The Next TikTok Shutdown Is Likely to Be Longer; The trade war with China is compounding an impasse that shows few signs of being resolved by the June deadline”: Dave Lee has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power”: Jeffrey Blehar has this essay online at National Review.

“‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants: The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang; But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.” Julie Turkewitz, Jazmine Ulloa, Isayen Herrera, Hamed Aleaziz, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times have this report.

“Lawyers say El Salvador blocks access to detained Venezuelans”: Nelson Renteria and Sarah Kinosian of Reuters have this report.

“143. The State of Play in the Abrego Garcia Case: The Trump administration isn’t defying the letter of Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling; But it’s daring the federal courts to take much more aggressive steps to block its immigration policies.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative; Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“The constitutional crisis is here, legal experts say; Court watchers say President Trump has careened the country in a dangerous direction by ignoring orders to help return a Maryland father locked up in El Salvador”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know? The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.” Roger Parloff has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Law Firms’ Quid Pro Quo Pro Bono Work on Tariffs Is Unethical”: Law professor Atinuke Adediran has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“2025 Klinsky Lecture | Elizabeth Prelogar on Representing the United States in the Supreme Court”: Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.