“She wanted to open a hair salon. Then came Trumpish protectionism. To see how bureaucratic economic planning works on the local level, check out Clayton County, Georgia.” Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution; Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment; Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said; ‘I’ve got no problem with gruel’”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity; An increasingly fraught relationship threatens the government’s credibility in court, legal experts say”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

“The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court”: Law professor Kate Andrias has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“If ‘Conversion Therapy’ Is Free Speech, What Isn’t?” Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judge Faces Backlash in Sentence of Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin”: Jacqueline Thomsen has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“The Conservative Justices Are Not Even Bothering to Tell This Lie Anymore; Extolling the virtues of upholding precedent used to be mandatory for Supreme Court justices; Now that the conservatives have six votes, they suddenly view it as very optional”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Baylor Law School — Judge Kenneth W. Starr Federalist Papers Lecture — 2025”: Baylor Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“Political Violence as a Threat to Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law”: The Federalist Society has posted this video on YouTube.

“How Trump’s message to ‘Pam’ got exactly the results he wanted; Donald Trump has long called for imprisoning his opponents; For the first time, he has a Justice Department willing to do his bidding”: Kyle Cheney, Erica Orden, and Hassan Ali Kanu of Politico have this report.

“A Perilous Difference Between the Trump and Nixon Eras”: Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.