“Start of indicted Supreme Court judge Hantz Marconi’s trial delayed”: Paul Feely of The New Hampshire Union Leader has this report.

Nancy West of InDepthNH reports that “NH Supreme Court Justice Hantz Marconi’s Hearing and Trial Postponed.”

And Todd Bookman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports that “Witnesses in trial of NH Supreme Court Justice could include big names in state politics and law.”

“Gov. Laura Kelly selects Leawood attorney to fill vacancy on Kansas Supreme Court; Democratic governor makes fourth appointment to the state’s highest court”: Tim Carpenter of Kansas Reflector has this report.

Matthew Kelly of The Kansas City Star reports that “Kansas’ new Supreme Court justice could be last appointed before polarizing vote.”

And Jack Harvel of The Topeka Capital-Journal has an article headlined “Who Gov. Laura Kelly chose in what may be her last pick for Kansas Supreme Court.”

“DOJ tells judge it will ask Supreme Court to quickly rule on constitutionality of Trump’s birthright citizenship order”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report.

“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops; A lower court had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like race or speaking Spanish”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift limits on ICE’s ‘roving patrols.’”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Sixth Circuit says Second Amendment doesn’t cover machine guns; An appellate panel in Cincinnati upheld a man’s conviction for owning a machine gun and limited the protections of the Second Amendment in the process”: Destiny DeVooght of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Mallory Culhane of Bloomberg Law reports that “Federal Machine Gun Ban is Constitutional, Sixth Circuit Says.”

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

“Record Party Gaps in Job Approval of Supreme Court, Congress; Supreme Court’s approval rating falls below 40% for the first time”: Jeffrey M. Jones and Sarah Hogenboom-Jones of Gallup have this report.

“This Is No Way to Run a Country”: Online at The New York Times, columnist David French has an essay that begins, “Have you ever written words that you thought might get you killed? Have you ever written words that you worry might get someone you love killed? That’s the reality that federal judges are facing across the nation.”

“American Bar Association Assails Conservative Fifth Circuit Nominee; Michael B. Wallace is victimized by scandalous abuses”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Bonus 171: Circuit Riding and the Antebellum Court; Having the justices spend much of the year out in the country was an important means by which Congress brought the nascent Supreme Court to the people — and, as importantly, the people to the Court.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack; The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states”: John Sakellariadis and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

“A Prosecutor Took on MS-13 and Violent Crime. Trump Fired Her Anyway. Desiree Grace was a casualty of the struggle between the White House and district judges over who would lead the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.” Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times has this report.