“A judge sided with Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination. Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by POLITICO.” Hailey Fuchs of Politico has this report.

“Some Thoughts on United States v. Skrmetti: Equal Protection Methodology Both Is and Isn’t Changing with the Times.” Richard M Re has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“Trump can command National Guard as California’s legal challenge moves forward, appeals court says”: Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal report that “Appeals Court Lets Trump Keep Control of California National Guard Troops in L.A.; Decision blocks a lower-court order that found the president exceeded his authority by federalizing state forces in response to protests.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Trump Delays TikTok Ban for a Third Time; The president gave the Chinese-controlled video app another reprieve from a 2024 law requiring its sale or closure”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And at the “Executive Functions” Substack site, Jack Goldsmith has a post titled “Trump’s Continuing Illegal Refusal to Enforce the TikTok Ban; This executive branch precedent will have long and bad legs.”

“How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost; The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation”: Nicholas Confessore has this article online at The New York Times Magazine.

“Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Louisiana Ten Commandments Display Law”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

“Supreme Court Cannot Keep Fed Independent but Shove Other Agencies Under President’s ‘Unitary Executive’ Thumb”: Stuart M. Gerson and Simon Lazarus have this essay online at The National Law Journal.

“Georgia’s Abortion Ban Just Forced a Brain-Dead Woman On Life Support to Give Birth; The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs upended decades of settled law; Adriana Smith and her family paid the price”: Madiba K. Dennie has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Lawyer Calls Judge ‘Honey’ During Oral Argument And You Can Feel The Cringe; You can’t spell ‘Your Honor” without “Hon…’”: Joe Patrice has this blog post at “Above the Law.”

“Just the Fax”: Mark Walsh has this View from the Court post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“The Corporate Court: In a stunning critique, Ketanji Brown Jackson nails the Supreme Court’s egregious big business bias.” Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Promise and Pitfalls of Justice Barrett’s Skrmetti Concurrence; Justice Barrett rehabilitates Footnote 4, gives credence to Justice Kennedy’s animus jurisprudence, and all but says that gays who were affected by a ‘legacy of de jure discrimination’ are a suspect class”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Won’t Fast-Track Tariffs Challenge; In an unusual request, two toy manufacturers had asked the court to greatly expedite their case”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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

“Mahmoud Khalil Must Be Released on Bail, Federal Judge Orders; Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and legal permanent resident, has been held in Louisiana for over three months; The judge found reason to believe it was retaliation for his pro-Palestinian speech”: Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times has this report.

You can access today’s order of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey at this link.

“Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is unconstitutional, federal appeals court rules”: Patrick Wall of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.