“Appellate court affirms conviction of Katie Magbanua in 2014 Dan Markel murder-for-hire”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.
You can access today’s ruling of Florida’s First District Court of Appeal at this link.
“Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say; Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.
“This Is the Real Impact of the Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood Decision”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
“Wisconsin’s Abortion Settlement; A Badger State Supreme Court ruling sustains the state’s political compromise on the issue”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Trump nominates Maine litigator Joshua Dunlap for First Circuit court”: Nate Raymond and Christian Martinez of Reuters have this report.
And Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law reports that “President Trump Plans to Nominate Two Appellate Judges; Former DOJ attorney Eric Tung picked for Ninth Circuit; Commercial, appellate litigator Joshua Dunlap tapped for First Circuit.”
“The 2024-25 term brought notable wins for the court’s conservative majority — and the Trump administration”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
Also at “SCOTUSblog,” Erwin Chemerinsky has a post titled “By the numbers.”
“Nationwide injunctions should have been nullified long ago”: George Liebmann has this essay online at The Baltimore Sun.
“Trump urges Supreme Court to let him fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.
You can access the federal government’s filing at this link.
“Appeals court backs Florida’s teacher pronoun law in challenge by transgender Hillsborough teacher”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.
“US Tells Court It Can’t Locate Man Wrongly Sent to El Salvador”: Robert Burnson of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “The Trump administration told a federal appeals court it has been unable to locate a man wrongly deported to El Salvador a week after a three-judge panel ordered that he be returned to the US.”
“Trump Lawyer Habba Faces Home State Opposition for US Attorney”: Seth Stern and Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law have this report.
According to the article, “While Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim didn’t explicitly say they intend to block the nomination, homestate senators’ approval is needed for US attorney nominees to move forward under Senate custom.”
“The Supreme Court’s Majority Is Playing the Long Game; The session is being interpreted by many as giving President Trump more power; Chief Justice Roberts has a different strategy”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Amy Coney Barrett Is the Most Interesting Justice on the Court”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.
“Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidates the state’s strict 1849 abortion law”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.
Kate Zernike of The New York Times reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban; After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republican prosecutors in Wisconsin said they intended to enforce the old law.”
And Patrick Marley and Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post report that “Wisconsin Supreme Court allows abortion to continue in state; The 4-3 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling blocks a 19th-century law that for a time effectively banned abortion in nearly all instances.”
You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin at this link. That court today also issued this order in the case captioned Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Joel Urmanski.
“The Supreme Court has created an endless summer of work for itself”: Nina Totenberg recently had this audio segment on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
“Trump Nominates Alina Habba as New Jersey’s Permanent U.S. Attorney; Ms. Habba, the president’s former spokeswoman and personal lawyer, has been serving in an interim capacity; She had no prosecutorial experience when she was appointed”: Santul Nerkar of The New York Times has this report.
And Zach Blackburn of New Jersey Globe reports that “Trump nominates Habba for full U.S. Attorney term; Currently embroiled in several high-profile cases, she’s unlikely to receive Democratic support.”