“Bradley Bondi, brother of attorney general, loses bid to lead D.C. Bar; Bondi, running for Bar president, received just 9 percent of the vote, while another lawyer connected to the Trump administration lost her race to become treasurer”: Keith L. Alexander of The Washington Post has this report.

“Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture; Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Maryland Supreme Court upholds gun possession ban in some non-felony cases”: Maryland Matters has this report on a 6-to-1 ruling that the Supreme Court of Maryland issued last Friday.

“Dan Markel murder: Jail policy change prompts Donna Adelson relocation; Adelson has long complained about her treatment at the Leon County Detention Facility, alleging ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Supreme Court rejects Fane Lozman’s latest bid to force Riviera Beach to pay him millions; Fane Lozman sued Riviera Beach in 2022 over the $49 million he claimed city officials robbed him of when they made his submerged land off-limits to developers”: Hannah Phillips of The Palm Beach Post has this report.

“The incomparable Ed Kneedler”: Gregory Garre has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip to face new murder trial but without death penalty; The decision by the state attorney general’s office to retry Glossip, 62, came after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his capital murder conviction in February”: Erik Ortiz of NBC News has this report.

“After Kennedy: pondering Eighth Amendment functioning and litigating; With states enacting new capital child rape laws, whither the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling Kennedy v. Louisiana?” Douglas A. Berman has this post at the “Sentencing Matters Substack.”

“Deportee’s Lawyers Push for Contempt Proceedings Despite His Return; Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s lawyers accused the Trump administration of spending months ‘engaged in an elaborate, all-of-government effort to defy court orders’”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

Devan Cole of CNN reports that “Abrego Garcia’s attorneys still want Trump administration officials held in contempt.”

David Rohde of NBC News has a report headlined “The questions raised by the new charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia; The potential political fallout for Democrats and why a federal prosecutor resigned days before the indictment remain unanswered.”

And today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an editorial titled “Bondi Bends on Abrego Garcia; Trump averts a needless showdown with the Supreme Court by bringing him back from a prison in El Salvador.”

You can access “Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Request for Stay” at this link.

“157. A Busy (and Glitchy) Week: The Supreme Court capped off a busy week with two major late-Friday-afternoon rulings on emergency applications — and a harmless but nevertheless alarming glitch prematurely releasing today’s orders.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Federal judges are powerful. Some of their law clerks describe a toxic work culture.” Carrie Johnson had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

And Saturday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained an audio segment titled “Carrie Johnson on her reporting that uncovered pervasive abuse of clerks by some judges.”

“The Supreme Court Is Divided in More Ways Than You’d Think”: Law professor J. Joel Alicea has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Inside America’s Death Chambers: What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption.” Elizabeth Bruenig has this cover story in the July 2025 issue if The Atlantic.

“Judicial Notice (06.08.25): Noisy Withdrawals; Damian Williams’s departure from Paul Weiss, three notable SCOTUS rulings, the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and another Biglaw firm opening in Boston.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without the Roberts Court; The original sin of selling the US justice system comes home to roost at the Supreme Court”: You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“The Supreme Court Just Gave DOGE the Keys to the Kingdom; Allowing the department access to Social Security data means the White House can presumably share it with any federal agency it wants to leverage for political purposes”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“9-0, but Make It Complicated”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’; Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories”: Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, and Adam Goldman of The New York Times have this report.

“Relocating Nationwide Injunctions”: Samuel Issacharoff and Derek T. Muller have this post at the “Just Security” blog.