“Who are the 3 Pa. Supreme Court justices running for retention?” Paula Reed Ward of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has this report.

And Tristin Hoffman of The Legal Intelligencer has a report headlined “Who in Pa.’s Legal Community Financed Who in Supreme Court Retention Election Campaign; An analysis of the final campaign finance records before next week’s election shows Justice Kevin Dougherty leading in financial support.”

“Texas Justices Float Changes to Docket System, High Court Briefs”: Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor Offers Advice, Insight to BU Law Students at Annual Shapiro Lecture; She spoke with her former law clerk Cesar Lopez-Morales (LAW’14) in a wide-ranging conversation at the Tsai Performance Center”: Molly Glass of BU Today has this report.

School of Law, Boston University has posted on YouTube a video titled “BU Law Presents The Shapiro Lecture: In Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.”

“UVA Law remains No. 5 in Supreme Court clerkships”: Mike Fox of UVA Today has this report.

“Will Trump’s Tariffs Survive Supreme Court’s ‘Major Questions’ Test? The justices used the doctrine, a judicially created method of reading statutes, to thwart several major Biden programs.” Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.

“Second Circuit upholds Keith Raniere sex cult abuse conviction; Raniere’s claims of digital evidence tampering stalled out on appeal, keeping in place his 120-year prison sentence”: Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service has this report on a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Trump Lands New Eighth Circuit Vacancy as Judge Goes Senior”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“DOJ stands down on deporting Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia by Halloween; Liberia is the fourth African nation to be designated as a potential destination for the Maryland man, following Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana, despite Ábrego García’s stated willingness to be deported to Costa Rica”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official; An appeals court sided with the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying her role is to work with Congress”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

And Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to allow firing of register of copyrights.”

You can access the Court filing at this link.

“West Texas A&M Drag Show Ban to Get Full 5th Circuit Rehearing”: Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Jessica Priest of The Texas Tribune reports that “Federal appeals court will reconsider West Texas A&M drag show ban; The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday tossed a three-judge panel’s earlier ruling that found the ban violated students’ free speech rights; The court’s 17 judges will rehear the case.”

You can view today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit via this link.

“Senate confirms Trump’s pick for Court of Appeals, a longtime assistant US attorney in Milwaukee”: Lawrence Andrea of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

And Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law reports that “Trump Appeals Court Pick Who Drew Conservative Ire Confirmed.”

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

“J&J Talc Cancer Suits Rise 17% After Failed Settlement Push”: Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News has this report.

“186. When Can States Prosecute Federal Officers? Stephen Miller claims that ICE officers have ‘immunity’ for anything they do while enforcing immigration law. Even as an argument about *state* criminal prosecutions, that claim is overstated at best.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The Venezuela Boat Strikes and the Justice Department’s Golden Shield; How the Office of Legal Counsel Helps the White House in its Summary Killings”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“America’s Book Club with Justice Amy Coney Barrett; Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joins host David M. Rubenstein to discuss her new book, her early life and her view of the Constitution”: C-SPAN has posted this video online.

In the November 3, 2025 issue of The New Yorker: In the Talk of the Town section, Adam Gopnik has a Comment titled “Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing; The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.”

And Jill Lepore has an article titled “Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up; His posts and rants are omnipresent, ugly, and unhinged; Don’t look to history to make it make sense.”

“Trump’s DOJ Shakedown”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Don’t Tell Democrats How Their Judges Answered”: Michael A. Fragoso has this post at the “Bench Memos” blog of National Review.