“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.

“Judicial Notice (04.20.25): All Fed Up; A rebuke of the Trump administration from a leading conservative jurist, an extraordinary order from SCOTUS, and notable new clients of Quinn Emanuel.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Obamacare covers cancer screening and cholesterol meds. Will the Supreme Court change that? The case focuses on Obamacare’s preventative care requirement. Religious opponents say HIV medications, for example, would make them ‘complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior.’” Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

And Tierney Sneed, Tami Luhby, and Sarah Owermohle of CNN report that “Trump is defending Obamacare at the Supreme Court. A win could boost RFK Jr.’s influence.”

“Defying the Law and the Courts, Trump Seeks to Shift the Focus; The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law”: Peter Baker of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Minho Kim of The New York Times reports that “After Meeting Wrongly Deported Man, Van Hollen Accuses Trump of Defying Courts.”

And Victoria Albert and Mariah Timms of The Wall Street Journal report that “Four Immigration Cases Are Testing the Limits of Trump’s Power; The president’s fast-moving immigration agenda has placed college students, a construction worker and others at the center of legal clashes.”

“Police officers who joined Jan. 6 rally ask Supreme Court for anonymity; Four officers sued to prevent the disclosure of Seattle’s inquiry into their attendance at the pro-Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ rally on Jan. 6, 2021”: Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post has this report.

“Will This Conservative Legal Doctrine Undo Trump’s First Months in Office?” Law professor Aaron Tang has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Alito Releases Dissent in Supreme Court Decision Blocking Deportations; Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the court’s overnight order blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans under a wartime law was not ‘necessary or appropriate’”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

And Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court makes ‘unprecedented’ intervention to block Trump’s latest round of gang deportations.”

You can access the dissent at this link.

“Trump Justice Dept. weighs trying to undo Peter Navarro’s conviction; Days after announcing tariff hikes championed by Navarro, the Trump administration said it may drop opposition to the White House trade adviser’s appeal”: Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has this report.

“Free preventive care faces amputation at Supreme Court; What began as religious opposition to HIV prevention medication has evolved into a fight over executive power with major consequences for Americans’ health care costs”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Supreme Court to hear religious freedom case involving LGBTQ+ storybooks; The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether public schools can refuse to give parents the right to pull kids from lessons involving LGBTQ-themed books”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

And in commentary, Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Gender Storytime at the Supreme Court: If elementary schools read children’s books with LGBTQ themes, can parents opt out?“

“Playing Chicken With the Constitution: Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are revving up for a face off between the president and the courts.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Princeton dedicates building, unveils portrait in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor ’76”: Emily Aronson of Princeton University has this report.

“A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Understanding The Oral Argument Order in the Birthright Citizenship Cases”: William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One; The court didn’t even wait to let Alito write his dissent”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The Supreme Court signals it might be losing patience with Trump; In an unusual overnight order, most of the justices voted to halt several illegal deportations.”

And at his “One First” Substack site, Steve Vladeck has a post titled “144. The Supreme Court’s Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention: Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation — in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

“Inside the Urgent Fight Over the Trump Administration’s New Deportation Effort; The push to deport a group of Venezuelans raises questions about whether the government is following a Supreme Court order requiring that migrants receive due process”: Hamed Aleaziz, Alan Feuer, and Annie Correal of The New York Times have this report.

Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “An Urgent Supreme Court Order Protecting Migrants Was Built for Speed; In an overnight ruling blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, the justices ignored some of their protocols.”

And Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times reports that “Trump Administration Asks Justices to Reject A.C.L.U. Request to Pause Deportations; The solicitor general asked the Supreme Court to ‘dissolve’ their temporary block on the deportations of Venezuelans and to allow lower courts to consider the case.”

You can access the federal government’s opposition at this link.

“Supreme Court blocks Trump from conducting more deportations under Alien Enemies Act; The 1 a.m. order came after lawyers rushed to the court to stop an ‘imminent’ wave of deportations”: Ali Bianco, Hassan Ali Kanu, Kyle Cheney, and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“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.