“Hantz Marconi to return to the bench, capping whirlwind week for convicted justice”: Todd Bookman of New Hampshire Public Radio has this report.

“Why the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected an attempt to create business-only courts system”: Dale Denwalt of The Oklahoman has this report.

“Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion legalizing same-sex marriage. Here’s why he says it won’t be overturned.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“How a Pennsylvania Supreme Court election could influence the 2028 presidential race; It’s been 20 years since a Pennsylvania justice has lost a retention vote”: Emily Chang of ABC News has this report.

“Trump-appointed judges signal willingness to let president deploy troops to states”: Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article headlined “Portland is no ‘war zone,’ as Trump has claimed. Legally, it might not matter.”

“California’s first openly gay Supreme Court justice to step down, giving Newsom another pick”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“The Supreme Court should listen to the founders on tariffs; James Madison and John Marshall would say Trump’s tariffs are legal”: Law professor Chad Squitieri has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“US Senate confirms Trump nominee Mascott to federal appeals court”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law reports that “Trump White House Lawyer, Professor Confirmed to Third Circuit.”

You can access the roll call vote tally at this link.

“Should They Just Go Ahead and Put Up a Gold Trump Sign on the Supreme Court?” Emily Bazelon and David French have this written conversation online at The New York Times.

“Pennsylvania court tells Lower Merion it can’t use zoning to regulate how gun shops do business; A split Commonwealth Court ruled that a Lower Merion’s requirements on gun shops were preempted by state law; ‘It is a gun regulation, not a zoning regulation,’ Judge Matthew Wolf wrote”: Katie Bernard and Abraham Gutman of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

You can access today’s en banc ruling of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

“Chicago Chief Judge Says US Troops Should Stay Away From Court”: Seth Stern of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Trump Court Battles Must Continue During Shutdown, Judges Rule”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Bonus 182: Damages as a (Missing) Deterrent; It’s worth reflecting on how different things might look right now if federal officers — or the federal government itself — faced a meaningful specter of monetary liability for constitutional violations.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Senate Panel Advances Circuit Pick Who Drew Conservative Ire”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced President Donald Trump’s pick for the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit who attracted rare conservative pushback.”

“Oregon bid to block Trump’s National Guard orders hits skeptical appeals court”: Kale Williams of Axios has this report.

And the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted online at YouTube a video of today’s oral argument titled “25-6268 State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al.“

“Presidential Bad Faith in the Law of Emergency Power; Trump’s false claims about Portland matter a great deal in evaluating the legal basis for a military deployment in Portland — and in other cities”: Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“Nixon Now Looks Restrained; The former President once made an offhand remark about Charles Manson’s guilt; The reaction shows how aberrant Donald Trump’s rhetoric is”: Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Presidential and Judicial Political Capital: An Inverse Relationship; Why delaying Supreme Court review of Trump’s major policies might be desirable.” Dan Epps has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“California Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin Jenkins to Retire; Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins will retire from the California Supreme Court at the end of October after five years with the court and more than 35 years of judicial service”: Merrill Balassone of California Courts Newsroom has this report.