“Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies; The justices announced they were not ruling on the legality of the specific downsizing plans but they allowed the Trump administration to proceed for now with its restructuring efforts”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.
Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court allows Trump to launch mass layoff and restructuring plans; The justices said they were not ruling on the legality of specific firing plans but simply allowing the administration to launch such efforts while litigation continues.”
And Corinne Ramey of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Mass Government Layoffs to Move Forward; Justices lift injunction on order that told agency heads to work with DOGE on hiring and layoff plans.”
You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.
“In Digital Era, Supreme Court Insists on Vast Piles of Paper; The court’s rules require many litigants to submit 40 copies of their briefs, resulting in millions of pages printed each term; Critics call the process outdated and wasteful”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.
“Judges Appointed by Republicans Could Be Refusing To Retire — To Frustrate Trump’s Ambition for a MAGA Judiciary; The nomination of a former personal lawyer, Emil Bove, for the 47th president to an appellate seat could be a bellwether”: A.R. Hoffman of The New York Sun has this report.
“Former D.C. U.S. prosecutors oppose Emil Bove appeals court nomination; The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote soon on Bove, a former Trump lawyer and senior Justice Department official”: Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post has this report.
And Hailey Fuchs of Politico reports that “Senate Judiciary eyes next week for votes on two contentious nominees; Emil Bove and Jeanine Pirro are expected to face fierce Democratic opposition.”
“With Broken Promise on Epstein, Pam Bondi Draws the Ire of Trump’s Supporters; MAGA influencers are calling for attorney general’s resignation after she failed to produce ‘truckload’ of documents about the sex offender”: Sadie Gurman of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
And Glenn Thrush and Stuart A. Thompson of The New York Times report that “Confronted Over Epstein Files, Trump and Bondi Tell Supporters to Move On; A small but influential cohort of the president’s far-right political coalition spared him their ire but turned with a vengeance on the attorney general and the top officials at the F.B.I.“
“U.S. Will Try to Deport Abrego Garcia Before He Faces Trial, Justice Dept. Says; The plan directly contradicted the White House, which last month described as ‘fake news’ reports of plans to re-deport Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia”: Alan Feuer and Minho Kim of The New York Times have this report.
And Steve Thompson of The Washington Post reports that “Trump administration ordered to detail new plan to deport Kilmar Abrego García; The order by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis came after a Justice Department lawyer said the Trump administration said it will deport Abrego again without waiting for his criminal trial in Tennessee to play out.”
“165. TikTok and the Dispensing Power; Attorney General Bondi’s TikTok-related letters rest on a view of presidential power that has no support in even the most capacious understandings of the ‘unitary executive’ theory.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
“A Term for the Rich, the Reactionaries, and the Ruthless”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.
“Judicial Notice (07.06.25): Diddy Or Didn’t He; Puff Daddy’s day of reckoning, Yale Law’s departing dean, an Am Law 200 firm in trouble, and the biggest case of the next SCOTUS Term (so far).” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“Automating oral argument: The first frontier.” Adam Unikowsky has this interesting post at his “Adam’s Legal Newsletter” Substack site.
Access online the 2025 MoloLamken Supreme Court Business Briefing: At this link.
“Nearly Half of America’s Murderers Get Away With It; Most crimes go unsolved, emboldening criminals and potentially leading to more violence”: German Lopez of The New York Times has this report.
“Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Sentenced to Life in Assassination Plot; Edward Kelley had been convicted of plotting to kill the law enforcement officers who had investigated his case”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.
“The Supreme Court and Congress cede powers to Trump and the presidency; The high court has given the president immunity and protected him from nationwide injunctions; Congress is giving ground on spending and tariffs; It adds up to a turbocharged executive”: Naftali Bendavid of The Washington Post has this report.
“Supreme Court terms face decreasing unanimity among justices, data shows”: Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times have this report.
“One of the Supreme Court’s sharpest critics sits on it; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a strong voice on an unusually fractious U.S. Supreme Court”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.
“Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations; An administrative stay on Friday morning blocks the Trump administration’s efforts for now; A hearing is ongoing in D.C. this Fourth of July”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.
“Trump wants Alina Habba to stay as U.S. attorney in N.J. Sens. Andy Kim and Cory Booker say absolutely not. Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has prosecuted Democratic elected officials in New Jersey and Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim say she isn’t fit to keep the position.” Aliya Schneider of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.
“Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show; In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.
And at the “Lawfare” blog, Alan Z. Rozenshtein has a post titled “The Government’s Astonishing Constitutional Claims on TikTok; The Justice Department is advancing a radical theory of presidential power, nullifying Congress’s foreign affairs powers whenever the president finds them inconvenient.”
“Conservative Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has a warning for America”: Taylor Seely of The Arizona Republic has an article that begins, “Clint Bolick is worried. The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked ‘deeply disturbing’ attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump administration officials.”
The Society for the Rule of Law has posted on YouTube a video titled “The State of the Rule of Law: Insights from Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick.”
“Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan; The court’s order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections”: Adam Liptak and Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times have this report on an order that the U.S. Supreme Court issued yesterday.
Divided three-judge Fifth Circuit panel affirms entry of preliminary injunction prohibiting Texas from enforcing S.B.4: You can access the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.
“Paul Clement to Defend Maryland Judges From DOJ Lawsuit; Conservative attorney moved to enter case for judges; Lawsuit is over order blocking immediate deportations”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.
And in related coverage, Thomsen also reports that “Trump Appointee and Ex-Prosecutor to Hear DOJ’s Judges Lawsuit; Prosecuted cases over deadly Charlottesville rally; To hear lawsuit over Maryland federal court standing order.”
“SCOTUSBlog Founder Goldstein Renews Fight Against Tax Charges; Motions seek to dismiss some charges, further detail others; Government called previous round of motions meritless”: Tristan Navera of Bloomberg Law has this report.
You can freely access many of the court filings in the case via this link.
“Votes Suggest Chief Justice Regains Control of ‘Roberts Court’; Roberts in the majority more often than any other justice; Chief Justice didn’t write any separate concurrences, dissents”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“An Authority To License Illegal Conduct; Bondi’s Logic for Ignoring the TikTok Ban”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.
“‘There’s Just Too Much Lawlessness’: Three Legal Experts on an Embattled Supreme Court.” The New York Times has posted online this written discussion among law professors Kate Shaw, William Baude, and Stephen I. Vladeck.
“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.
