“Republican US Senator Grassley clashes with Trump over nominations”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law reports that “Grassley ‘Offended’ by Trump Call to End Nominations Custom.”

“The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible; Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year; They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

Online at The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic has an essay titled “Emil Bove Is a Sign of the Times; He has demonstrated that total sycophancy to the president can be a fantastic career move.”

And online at The Boston Globe, columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr has an essay titled “Emil Bove and the Kavanaugh rule: Loyalty to Trump dictates judicial confirmations, not qualifications; Trump didn’t single-handedly break the Senate’s confirmation process; But a single event turned the judicial confirmation process into the kind of pure, bare-knuckled partisan cage match it is today.”

“New SCOTUS Clerk Class Has More Women, Experience Than in 2000”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“Why lawyers seek to try cases in Philly, even when the plaintiffs aren’t from here; Lawyers on both sides of the 27 lawsuits related to the 2023 R.M. Palmer chocolate factory explosion in West Reading fought for two years over where the cases should be litigated”: Abraham Gutman of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Trump Sees Emergencies Everywhere. Judges Are Considering Whether to Rein Him In. In a latest test, an appeals court is set to weigh the president’s claim that economic emergencies allow him to impose sweeping tariffs unilaterally.” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Weak Ethics and Deep Politics at DOJ in the Epstein Case; The Role of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has drawn attention — but not enough”: Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.