“The DOJ Is Using Bad Lawyering to End Fed Independence; The administration is making an extraordinary power grab in Trump’s push to fire Lisa Cook before Tuesday’s Fed Board meeting”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this guest essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“The Supreme Court is about to decide one of the biggest economic policy cases ever; Cook v. Trump is one of the highest-stakes cases of Trump’s presidency”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Appeals court allows Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to keep her job; The Trump administration wants to remove the board member of the powerful central bank before a key meeting Tuesday on setting interest rates”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report on an order accompanied by concurring and dissenting opinions that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

“178. The Gold Clause Cases: The Court’s 1935 rulings effectively allowing the federal government to override the contractual consequences of devaluing U.S. currency were viewed in apocalyptic terms at the time, but aren’t today.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“A Disagreement about the Tariff Case and the Major Questions Doctrine; A response to Jack Goldsmith”: Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“Judicial Retirements Start to Pick Up After Slow Start for Trump”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law recently had this report.

“A national Democratic group is getting involved in the Pa. Supreme Court retention elections; Republicans in November are trying to break Democrats’ 5-2 majority on Pennsylvania’s high court, which plays a critical role in redistricting”: Sean Collins Walsh of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“How Originalism Killed the Constitution: A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.” Jill Lepore has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“I Won a $5 Million Judgment Against the MyPillow Guy. Now I’m Taking Him to the Supreme Court.” Bob Zeidman has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Jimmy Kimmel defeats George Santos’ appeal over videos”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a decision that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Action After Affirmative Action. Colleges can still pursue diversity. Here’s how.” Law professor Justin Driver has this essay online at The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“The Supreme Court’s Fast Track Needs a Name, and the Justices Are Split; Critics call the expedited rulings, which have become routine in the second Trump administration, the ‘shadow docket’; The justices have other ideas”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.

“How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“On the Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket, Sharp Partisan Divides; The second Trump administration has filed roughly the same number of applications so far as the Biden administration did over four years; But they have fared quite differently”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.