“Solicitor General John Sauer’s Predicament; His incompatible duties to the president and the Supreme Court are coming to a head”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“Federal appeals court upholds Massachusetts law banning assault weapons”: Anjali Huynh of The Boston Globe has this report.

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “US appeals court upholds Massachusetts assault weapons ban.”

Allie Reed of Bloomberg News reports that “Massachusetts Assault Weapon Ban Upheld by First Circuit Judges; Gun owners claim weapons are owned by law-abiding citizens; Appellate court previously upheld Rhode Island’s ban.”

And Thomas F. Harrison of Courthouse News Service reports that “First Circuit maintains Massachusetts assault weapons ban; A Second Amendment challenge floundered in part because the dangerous guns are seldom actually used for self-defense.”

You can access last Thursday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.

“A landlord says her mail wasn’t delivered because she is Black. Supreme Court to weigh in. The landlord alleges postal workers refused to deliver mail to some of her tenants because she’s Black and the tenants were white.” Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“‘An Enormous Usurpation’: Inside the Case Against Trump’s Tariffs; The lawsuits challenging Trump’s trade war make powerful legal arguments. Is that enough?” Ankush Khardori has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Patience runs thin as Trump’s battle with Supreme Court intensifies”: Zach Schonfeld of The Hill has this report.

And in commentary, online at Washington Monthly, law professor Garrett Epps has an essay titled “Is the Supreme Court Standing Up to Trump? The answer is complicated, but Chief Justice John Roberts may be treading a fine line between institutionalism and cowardice.”

“What does UK Supreme Court’s ruling on legal definition of a woman mean for sport?” Megan Feringa of The Athletic has this report.

“The Real Supreme Court Endgame for Abortion Foes; To understand the past and future of the American war over reproduction, we must tell the story of the fetal personhood movement”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Same-Sex Marriage Is the Law of the Land. Some States Are Debating It Anyway. State efforts to urge the Supreme Court to reconsider same-sex marriage have not advanced, but they have reopened the issue.” Amy Harmon of The New York Times has this report.

“ACLU says Trump officials not complying with Supreme Court in deportation case; The ACLU asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether the Trump administration can lawfully invoke the Alien Enemies Act for deportations”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

Bart Jansen of USA Today reports that “Venezuelan migrants ask Supreme Court to keep blocking their deportations; Venezuelan migrants are asking the Supreme Court to provide more guidance about how they can fight deportation under the Alien Enemies Act.”

And Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Venezuelan migrants were set for deportation without judicial review, lawyers tell US Supreme Court.”

You can access the reply at this link.

“The Supreme Court could be poised to hobble the Trump resistance; The Supreme Court’s decision to weigh nationwide injunctions could dramatically impact how Trump’s policies are applied across the country”: Hassan Ali Kanu and Erica Orden of Politico have this report.

“Claims & Theories in Rule 54(b) Appeals”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“Supreme Court Story Time: Justices Consider Children’s Books With L.G.B.T.Q. Themes; Parents in Maryland say they have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that storybooks with gay and transgender themes are discussed.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“145. Justice Alito’s Misbegotten Dissent in A.A.R.P.: Justice Alito’s after-the-fact opinion dissenting from the Court’s early-Saturday-morning Alien Enemy Act ruling rests on a revealing array of misrepresentations, misstatements, and non-sequiturs.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in one case and called for the views of the Solicitor General in one case.

At 10 a.m. eastern time, the Court will hear oral argument in a case in which Hashim M. Mooppan is arguing against Jonathan F. Mitchell.

“The conservative legal movement does not defend the Constitution”: Law professor Bruce Ledewitz has this essay online at The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.