“Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey: President Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July and hit a fever pitch over the last week, culminating in the indictment of one of his foremost enemies.” Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman, Alan Feuer, and Tyler Pager of The New York Times have this report.

And Charlie Savage of The New York Times has an article headlined “The Testimony at the Heart of the Comey Indictment, Examined; The charges against the former F.B.I. director center on an appearance he made before a Senate committee in September 2020; Here’s a closer look.”

“The Comey Indictment and its Aftermath; New strategies are needed to defend against the systematic politicization of federal law enforcement”: Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“Trump urges Supreme Court to decide whether to end birthright citizenship”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

You can view the cert. petition at this link.

“‘Color-Blind’ Admissions Continue to Hurt Us: America looks very different two years after the end of affirmative action.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Trump’s central role in Comey case may become key to defense strategy; The president overruled prosecutors who declined to bring charges in the case and has heavily criticized the former FBI director in public comments”: Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post have this report.

Sadie Gurman, Josh Dawsey,and Aruna Viswanatha of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump Overcame Internal Dissent to Get His Case Against Comey; The Comey family has emerged as one of Trump’s biggest targets for retribution in his second term.”

Alan Feuer of The New York Times has a news analysis headlined “Trump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey; The president’s voluble vitriol could provide defense lawyers with an avenue to protect the very people he most wants to punish.”

And in commentary, online at The New York Times, columnist Carlos Lozada has an essay titled “Why Comey Should Not Have Been Indicted, According to Trump.”

“No Donna Adelson retrial: Judge rules jury’s murder verdict is lawful.” Elena Barrera of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Comey indictment is the beginning of holding corrupt officials accountable”: John Eastman has this essay online at The New York Post.