“Trump Judges Keep Pulling Desperate, Sweaty Stunts In the Hopes That He Offers Them Promotions; Only Ryan Nelson has the courage to ask the hard questions, like, what if the law allows Donald Trump to do whatever he wants?” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.” Jared Jacang Maher and David Sirota have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And online at Balls and Strikes, G.S. Hans has a book review titled “Anthony Kennedy Hasn’t Learned a Thing; The throughlines of the former justice’s new memoir are his confidence that he has always been right, and his disinterest in the real-world consequences of his votes.”

“Why Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court justice retention races are so contentious”: Chris Potter and Susan Scott Peterson of 90.5 WESA have this report.

And Elizabeth Estrada of Spotlight PA has a report headlined “Guns, soda tax, and paid sick leave: How Pa. Supreme Court rulings have shaped cities.”

“All the President’s Enemies; Trump’s misguided indictments won’t help him, as the Founders foresaw”: Columnist Barton Swaim will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“It’s time to end presidential pardons; A tool meant to fix miscarriages of justice now routinely produces them”: Columnist Jeff Jacoby has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“Trump’s desire for loyalist prosecutors threatens the case against Comey; Former FBI director James B. Comey is asking a judge to dismiss his case on grounds that the U.S. attorney overseeing it was illegally appointed”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post has this report.

“First Circuit ends Jewish students’ lawsuit over Gaza protests at MIT; The appeals panel found that students’ accusations ‘do not plausibly rise to the level of actionable harassment’ required for the discrimination claim”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday.

“The Supreme Court is poised to erase Black power in the South; Activist justices threaten the Voting Rights Act”: Columnist Theodore R. Johnson has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“DOJ Lawyers’ Courtroom Lies Challenge Judiciary, Ex-Judges Say”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“9th Circuit rethinks ruling that bolstered Trump’s authority to deploy troops”: Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Margaret Attridge of Courthouse News Service reports that “Feds urge Ninth Circuit to let National Guard stay federalized in LA; The appeals court previously granted the government an emergency stay after a federal judge ordered the president to return control of the state’s National Guard to Governor Gavin Newsom.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted the video of the oral argument on YouTube.

“How the Insurrection Act would change what troops could do in San Francisco”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“Former Biden and Senate Counsel to Lead Progressive Legal Group; Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal turmoil”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

“Trump DOJ Upheaval in Virginia Hobbles National Security Unit”: Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“A History of Vacatur”: Law professor Ben Johnson has posted this article online at SSRN.