“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Revive Ban on Transgender Troops; Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

You can access the emergency application at this link.

“Trump Initiatives Knocked Back in a New Round of Court Rulings; Fresh setbacks are latest frustrations for an administration hit with numerous legal challenges to its top policy priorities”: Mariah Timms and Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“The lawyers pushing back on Trump’s campaign to corral big law firms: Big law firms stayed silent or cut deals as Trump sanctioned some firms; An increasingly vocal array of lawyers are challenging his moves.” Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

“Trump admin must seek return of another man who was improperly deported to El Salvador, judge rules; A Trump-appointed judge ruled that the administration deported a 20-year-old Venezuelan man last month in violation of a legally binding, court-approved settlement agreement”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report.

Mariah Timms of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Administration Must Seek to Return Another Wrongly Deported Man, Judge Rules; A second ruling finds that the government wrongly sent a man to an El Salvador prison under wartime law despite legal protections.”

And Breanne Deppisch of Fox News reports that “Trump-appointed judge orders administration to return second deported migrant; Trump-appointed district judge ordered a 20-year-old immediately returned to the US, setting the stage for a high-profile compliance fight.”

“The Court Should Bless Religious Charters; St. Isidore Catholic Virtual School isn’t a state actor merely by dint of public funding”: Law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Here’s Why the President Keeps Ignoring the Law; Trump knows he’s unlikely to face consequences; And he has enablers”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Supreme Court to Weigh Discrimination Standard for Some Special Education Cases”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

“US appeals court questions 97-year-old judge’s challenge to her suspension”: Blake Brittain of Reuters has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit via this link.

“The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution; The law allows for extraordinary interventions under extraordinary circumstances, such as when human beings face the possibility of lifetime incarceration without due process”: Adam Serwer of The Atlantic has this essay.

“West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Beth Walker to retire in June”: Lori Kersey of West Virginia Watch has this report.

“What the Supreme Court has already said about banishment; It called leaving people stateless a punishment worse than torture”: Law professor John D. Bessler has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Trump administration moved Venezuelan to Texas for possible deportation despite judge’s order”: Luc Cohen of Reuters has this report.

“Bonus 145: How (We Think) Emergency Applications Work; Given how much of the Supreme Court’s work in recent years (okay, days) has been focused on emergency applications, it seemed worth attempting an explainer on how (we think) they’re handled.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.