“‘The cases swung, not me’: Ex-Justice Kennedy reflects on a changing Supreme Court.” Nina Totenberg of NPR has this book review.

“The Former Insurance Lawyer Trump Picked to Take On Comey; Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan worked around the clock to secure an indictment of former FBI director”: Meridith McGraw, C. Ryan Barber, and Lydia Wheeler of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein, and Emily Davies of The Washington Post report that “Comey case raises question of who are Trump’s next political targets; Federal prosecutors across the country are facing increasing pressure to quickly produce results in other investigations targeting subjects of Trump’s scorn.”

Peter Baker of The New York Times has a news analysis headlined “In Going After His Foes, Trump Sets a Precedent That Could Haunt His Allies; President Trump’s retribution campaign risks ushering in a cycle of retaliation in which each new administration takes aim at the last one.”

And in commentary, online at The New York Times, columnist David French has an essay titled “Make No Mistake About Where We Are.”

“A ‘brazen’ Jeffrey Yass-backed mailer suggests the Pa. Supreme Court created the congressional map it actually threw out; ‘It’s probably the most shameless political ad I’ve ever seen,’ said Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht in a rare interview”: Katie Bernard of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“History’s Case for a Strong Presidency; The Constitution’s framers were informed by colonial practice, which defined ‘executive power’ broadly”: Illinois state court Judge Kenton J. Skarin will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Wisconsin officials ask for suspension of judge who tried to discredit 2020 election; The former justice doesn’t dispute that he mishandled records and lied under oath during his messy and unsuccessful campaign to decertify the 2020 election with conspiracy theories”: Destiny DeVooght of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Judicial Notice (09.28.25): Qualifications Are Overrated; The indictment of James Comey, the passing of a celebrated D.C. lawyer, a powerful dissent by Justice Kagan, and a noteworthy in-house hire.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.