“Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division Pushes Trump’s Culture War Agenda; The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, shifting from its founding purpose of fighting race-based discrimination”: Glenn Thrush of The New York Times has this report.

“Wisconsin’s 402-Year Veto Rewrite: Liberal state Justices uphold a power grab by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Maryland Deportee Told Senator He Had Been in Isolation in El Salvador Prison; Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison”: Robert Jimison of The New York Times has this report.

And Silvia Foster-Frau, Theodoric Meyer, and Maegan Vazquez of The Washington Post report that “Sen. Van Hollen discusses El Salvador visit with wrongly deported man.”

“Judge Wilkinson’s Sage Advice on Abrego Garcia: Why is Trump so dead set on denying due process to the wrongly deported El Salvadoran migrant?” This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Supreme Court gets a chance to rebuke schools’ bullying wokeism; The high court hears a case involving Montgomery County, religious freedom and educational diktats”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Terrorism Suspect Trump Sent Back to Bukele; An MS-13 leader knew key details of a secret deal that his gang allegedly made with the Salvadoran President — then the White House put him on a flight to El Salvador”: Danielle Mackey of The New Yorker has this report.

“James Ho Knocks Trial Judge Who Blocked Venezuelan Deportations; Fifth Circuit’s Ho says judge ‘presumed to seize control’; Judge Boasberg had ordered stop to deportations”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg News has this report on a published order, accompanied by concurring and dissenting opinions, that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“US Judiciary Warns of Budget Shortfall as Threats Increase; Judges face rising threats as Trump allies attack rulings; US marshals ‘take extraordinary measures’ for judicial safety”: Suzanne Monyak and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Trump’s deportation of Maryland man divides conservatives; The White House argues that Kilmar Abrego García is a bad man; Some conservatives say that should not matter”: Naftali Bendavid of The Washington Post has this report.

“Senator Meets With Man Mistakenly Deported by Trump Administration; El Salvador’s president says Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose detention has sparked a fierce legal battle, will remain in custody for now”: Ginger Adams Otis and Vera Bergengruen of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“They were on federal death row. Now they may go to a supermax prison. Prisoners say the Trump administration is seeking tougher conditions for them as punishment for having death sentences commuted by President Joe Biden.” Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

“A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Tony Evers’ veto that extended school funding for 400 years”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Rich Kremer of Wisconsin Public Radio reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds Evers’ veto boosting school funding for 400 years; Court’s liberal majority says Wisconsin Constitution doesn’t limit governor’s partial veto powers ‘based on how much or how little’ it changes policy.”

Patrick Marley of The Washington Post reports that “Wis. court upholds creative veto to increase school funding for 400 years; The liberal-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Tony Evers was acting within his office’s powers to make an end run around Republicans.”

And Mitch Smith of The New York Times reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Governor’s 400-Year Edit Was Within Veto Authority; Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, used his veto power to increase school funding limits for four centuries longer than Republican lawmakers in the state had intended.”

You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin at this link.

“Who Is J. Harvie Wilkinson, the Judge Behind a Scathing Rebuke of the White House? The judge, a conservative Reagan appointee, wrote a blistering opinion accusing the administration of failing to give a man wrongly deported to El Salvador any semblance of due process.” Alan Feuer and Adam Liptak of The New York Times have this report.

“After Attacking Judges, Trump Administration Blames Judge for Escalating Tensions; The administration cast the threat by the judge, James E. Boasberg, to open criminal contempt proceedings as another salvo in an increasingly bitter battle between the White House and the courts”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

You can access the federal government’s filing yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“My School District Could Have Avoided This Supreme Court Case”: Megan K. Stack has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“You Cannot Appease Someone Who Intends to Destroy You; The BigLaw firms that rolled over to Trump are astonished to learn that he might not have been negotiating in good faith”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.