“The next big battleground test: A Wisconsin race that has tortured Republicans; Republicans and Democrats have each poured tens of millions into the state’s recent Supreme Court races — and the GOP has gotten crushed.” Gregory Svirnovskiy of Politico has this report.

“Trump’s Legacy Is in the Supreme Court’s Shaky Hands”: Ed Kilgore has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“Chaos Reigns as Texas Awaits Supreme Court’s Ruling on Redistricting; A decision on the state’s new congressional map will affect five House seats and could help determine control of the chamber next year”: J. David Goodman of The New York Times has this report.

“The Three Faces Of Trumpism: Has Trump ushered in an authoritarian crisis, an overdue constitutional overhaul, or merely benefitted from America’s rotten politics?” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“$1 billion Supreme Court music piracy case could affect internet users; Cox Communications was ordered to pay $1 billion for not doing enough to stop music piracy; The company says that judgment could ‘jeopardize internet access for all Americans’”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“Judicial Notice (11.30.25): Dismissed; Dismissals for Trump, Jim Comey, and Tish James; two new SCOTUS opinions; rethinking the Biglaw summer program; and the latest in Latham v. Kirkland.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Billboards, Donations and 6,000 Letters: Why Luigi Mangione’s Fans Won’t Quit; As the accused killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO heads to court this week, his support has proven surprisingly enduring.” Corinne Ramey of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s ‘retribution campaign’; In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump’s norm-shattering bid to punish political foes”: Noah Robertson, Tara Copp, and Sarah Ellison of The Washington Post have this report.

“Inverse Critical Race Theory: Why did Texas redistrict?” Adam Unikowsky has this post at his “Adam’s Legal Newsletter” Substack site.

“Trump officials and judge face off over flights to El Salvador in rare, high-stakes contempt probe”: Sudhin Thanawala of The Associated Press has this report.

“Tom Goldstein Identifies Funder He Used to Pay Personal Debts”: Emily R. Siegel of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

Update: You can access the pro se appellant’s motion to expedite and brief for appellant.

“North Dakota Supreme Court Justice Daniel Crothers announces retirement”: Mary Steurer of North Dakota Monitor has this report.

“Gov. Cox says it’s ‘a good idea’ to add justices to the Utah Supreme Court — and it’s not court packing; The governor acknowledged Republican lawmakers are frustrated with the court, but ‘I didn’t have that same consternation’”: Robert Gehrke of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

“ProPublica’s hit piece on NC Supreme Court gets the law wrong”: Jeanette Doran has this essay online at The Carolina Journal.

“My Interview with a Supreme Court Justice: KidScoop correspondent meets Anthony Kennedy.” Culver City News has published this report written by Quinlan Taylor.

“Frustrated by missing mail, one American took the Postal Service to court”: Susan Haigh of The Associated Press has this report.

“The Irish court”: Mark Walsh has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“All you ever wanted to know about the Supreme Court lottery”: Nora Collins has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Copyright Piracy at the Supreme Court: In Cox v. Sony, is an internet provider liable for digital thieves?” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“DOJ Legal Adviser Says Halligan Can Still Be Called US Attorney”: Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court Defers Ruling on Trump’s Effort to Oust Copyright Official; An appeals court panel had said that Shira Perlmutter, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, could remain in her role as an adviser to Congress”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

And Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court puts off ruling on Trump’s firing of copyright official; The Supreme Court will consider two other cases on presidential firings first.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Bove Can’t Use Judgeship to Duck Testimony On Removal Flights”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Luigi Mangione’s next court hearing could last all week — here’s why; The court may hear from numerous witnesses, including the police officers who arrested Mangione in Pennsylvania”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“The Situation: You Get To Play Lindsey Halligan’s Hand; She made her bed; Now you get to lie in it.” Katherine Pompilio and Benjamin Wittes have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Hundreds Attend 114th Harvard Ames Moot Court Competition at Law School”: Sidhi Dhanda and Caroline G. Hennigan of The Harvard Crimson recently had this report.

And Harvard Law School has posted on YouTube a video titled “Ames Moot Court Competition 2025.”

“Trump administration prosecutions focus new attention on grand juries; The administration has struggled with an unusual level of rejections in some cases and procedural stumbles in others”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

“Appeals court upholds $1M penalty against Trump in lawsuit against Hillary Clinton; The judges ruled that the president’s arguments ‘were indeed frivolous’”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report.

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

“Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. delivers the 2025 Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture”: Elyse Paul of Notre Dame Law School has this report.

And on YouTube, Notre Dame Law School has posted a video titled “2025 Rice Hasson Lecture.”

“Trump’s Retribution Push Has Expanded Even as It Hits Legal Barriers; A judge dismissed indictments against two of the president’s foes, but a new Pentagon investigation of a prominent Democrat shows how he is using a whole-of-government approach to punish those who cross him”: Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“The ‘Wild Card’ in the Comey and James Cases: Will Judges Pick the Next Prosecutor? The dismissal of indictments that President Trump sought against his perceived foes opens the door for federal judges to pick a new U.S. attorney to replace a Trump loyalist.” Devlin Barrett of The New York Times has this report.

“Mark Kelly Is Being Investigated for Telling the Truth”: Law professor David Cole has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump; The president has now seen three criminal cases against him dissolve since he was re-elected last year”: Richard Fausset and Danny Hakim of The New York Times have this report.

“Top US Officials Identified by DOJ in Deportation Contempt Fight”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “The Trump administration identified top US officials involved in the decision not to turn around planes of deported migrants in March per a judge’s order, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Judge Emil Bove, who was a Justice Department official at the time.”

And Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico report that “Kristi Noem made call to hand over deported men to El Salvador, DOJ says; The disclosure adds a wrinkle to the murky timeline surrounding the unprecedented deportation effort.”

You can access yesterday’s court filing at this link.

“The Losing Isn’t Over for Trump’s Justice Department”: Elie Honig has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“The Situation: Not The Way I Wanted This to End; But I’ll take it.” Benjamin Wittes has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.