“Trump Gets a Slow Start on Judges After Setting a Record Pace in First Term; The president named his first appeals court candidate this week, but fewer vacancies and other priorities have led to a lack of judicial nominations from the White House so far”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

“Harvard is taking the Trump administration to court. The judge overseeing the case is no stranger to either side.” Lauren Mascarenhas of CNN has this report.

“Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison; The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees”: Sarah Blaskey, Samantha Schmidt, Silvia Foster-Frau, Ana Vanessa Herrero, Arelis R. Hernández, María Luisa Paúl, and Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post have this report.

“The Rule of Law, The Rule of Courts, and the Rule of the State; Fuller on the Limits of Legality and of Judicial Review”: Adrian Vermeule has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.

“Judicial Notice (05.04.25): ‘Juvenile And Impertinent’; Lisa Blatt v. Roman Martinez, a Trump appointee v. the Trump administration, Judge Katsas v. Judge Rao, and … a purple dragon?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The Fourth Circuit’s Geofencing Case Ends Not With a Bang But A Whimper; Fifteen judges produce eight separate opinions — but no view gets a majority”: Orin S. Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justice Department lawyers face skeptical judges upset by ‘shoddy work’; As they defend against more than 200 lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s initiatives, some government lawyers are getting scolded from the bench”: Mark Berman and Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post have this report.

“Another Reason People Fear the Government”: Columnist David French has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Minnesota Supreme Court reverses woman’s indecent exposure conviction; The Minnesota Supreme Court determined the state failed to prove Eloisa Plancarte ‘lewdly’ exposed her breasts in a Rochester gas station parking lot in 2021”: Olivia Estright of The Post Bulletin of Rochester, Minnesota has this report.

And Matt Sepic of Minnesota Public Radio News reports that “Woman’s indecent exposure conviction overturned by Minnesota Supreme Court.”

You can access this past Wednesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Minnesota at this link.