“Justice Comes to Town: Supreme Court Heading to Defiance County.” Court News Ohio has this report.

“Justice Clarence Thomas says legal precedents are not ‘the gospel’; The conservative justice wants to overturn cases wrongly decided in his view”: Devin Dwyer of ABC News has this report.

“Get Ready for Another Rightward Lurch in the New Supreme Court Term; If things stay true to form, President Trump will benefit from the Roberts court’s generous takes on executive power; The rest of us may not be so lucky”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid; The court’s conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed ‘the potential harm’ faced by aid recipients”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court allows Trump officials to freeze billions in foreign aid; The ruling is a victory for the president’s aggressive push to exert greater control over federal spending.”

Lydia Wheeler of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Allows Trump to Withhold $4 Billion in Foreign Aid; The administration had been trying to run out the clock on paying the funds, with authorization set to expire next week.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a Jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers; The conservative supermajority’s lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the dissent therefrom, at this link.

“With Comey prosecution, Trump fulfills promise of revenge; President Donald Trump’s predecessors sought to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions; Trump openly intervened in the Comey prosecution”: Patrick Marley of The Washington Post has this report.

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have an article headlined “Why the case against James Comey may end in humiliation for Trump’s DOJ; ‘This case should never go to trial,’ one former prosecutor said.”

Francesca Regalado of The New York Times reports that “Brief Comey Indictment Prompts Questions and Criticism; The two-page indictment of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, offered little indication of the evidence that would be presented at a trial; Some legal experts called it flimsy and dangerous.”

Zach Montague of The New York Times reports that “Judge in Comey Case Has Presided Over Other Politically Fraught Proceedings; Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, a Biden appointee, previously handled the 2019 arraignment of two associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani, among other high-profile cases.”

Annie Linskey and Meridith McGraw of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump Pledges That Others Will Be Indicted After Comey; Critics say Justice Department is at an inflection point with the president calling shots.”

In commentary, online at The New York Times, Garrett M. Graff has a guest essay titled “Trump Can’t Be the One to Dictate Who Gets Indicted.”

Online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Barbara McQuade has an essay titled “Comey’s Indictment Subverts Justice and Trump’s Credibility; The Justice Department’s indictment of the former FBI director appears to follow the Putin playbook: discredit the system to protect yourself.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Comey’s indictment is a warning to the Supreme Court justices; Dear John, Brett, and Amy: If Trump can come for James Comey, he can come for you.”

“Nationwide Injunctions Are a Bipartisan Problem; Trump v. CASA leaves open significant loopholes, enabling continued exploitation of injunctions by partisan actors”: Samuel Estreicher and Malcolm Girand have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to rule on its plan to end birthright citizenship; The Justice Department wants the justices to issue a final decision on whether the contentious proposal seeking to reinterpret the Constitution’s 14th Amendment is lawful”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Trump Expands Tariffs Beyond Supreme Court’s Reach; The president’s tariffs on foreign drugs and furniture rely on national security laws outside the scope of current lawsuits”: Ana Swanson of The New York Times has this report.

“Are Military Lawyers Being Sidelined? The TdA boat strike, which JAGs likely would have advised against, raises alarm bells for the military’s legitimacy.” Dan Maurer has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us: Doxing, deplatforming, defunding, persecuting, firing, and sometimes killing — all are part of an escalating war over words; What happens next?” Louis Menand has this A Critic at Large essay online at The New Yorker.

“Donald Trump’s Mouth May Bring A Quick End To Charges Against Comey; The president’s statements and social media posts disparaging the former FBI director could persuade a judge that the case is a ‘vindictive’ prosecution”: S.V. Date of HuffPost has this report.

“The Flimsy, Dangerous Indictment of James Comey: The charges against the former F.B.I. director look weak; But they may be just the start of Donald Trump’s long-threatened drive to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.” Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“The Situation: Brief Thoughts on the Indictment of James Comey; You can’t keep the facts out of a criminal case forever.” Benjamin Wittes has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Justice Barrett reflects on public scrutiny, swing votes, and recusals at SCOTUSblog Summit”: Kelsey Dallas has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“A TikTok ‘Deal’? We may never know if the administration-brokered TikTok sale complies with the law, or at what cost it was secured.” Kate Klonick and Alan Z. Rozenshtein have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Interim Precedent: What is the Effect of a SCOTUS Stay?” Richard M Re has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“Barack Obama Imperils Fifth Circuit Nomination . . . and Dianne Feinstein rescues it”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“William Rehnquist Was the Original Trump Judge; Two decades after Rehnquist’s death, a new generation of conservative activists is scoring life-tenured federal judgeships by following in his unabashedly bigoted footsteps”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Clarence Thomas portrait installed in Yale Law School over the summer; Some students described the installation — delayed six years since the portrait was received — as politically motivated”: Henry Liu of The Yale Daily News recently had this report.

“Meet the judge who will oversee James Comey’s criminal case; U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a 2021 appointee of President Joe Biden, was randomly assigned Thursday evening to the Comey case”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

“Fed Independence Reaches Its Moment of Truth as Supreme Court Weighs Cook’s Fate; High court to decide whether Trump can remove board member, which former officials see as threat to central bank independence”: Nick Timiraos of The Wall Street Journal has this report.