“Supreme Court Grapples With Suit by Soldier Injured in Bombing on U.S. Base; The lawsuit stemmed from a 2016 suicide attack in Afghanistan by a former Taliban member hired as a subcontractor on an American military base”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

And Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Soldier wounded in suicide bombing wants right to sue military contractor; The Supreme Court is considering the legality of a suit filed by a U.S. soldier who was injured in an explosion at an air base in Afghanistan.”

“Retired Supreme Court Justice Kennedy reflects on cases, politics, Sacramento boyhood”: Sharon Bernstein of The Sacramento Bee has this report.

“Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent; Jury selection started on Monday for Sean C. Dunn, who was charged with misdemeanor assault after hitting a federal agent with a ‘sub-style sandwich’”: Zach Montague of The New York Times has this report.

“Why New York’s Trump ‘Hush Money’ Trial Was a Travesty: There’s no way he could have known he was committing a crime, since prosecutors concocted the offense.” Alan M. Dershowitz has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack; The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election”: Glenn Thrush of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“Bust the Filibuster at the GOP’s Peril; Break the Senate’s 60-vote rule, and a vital check on the left is gone”: This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump’s Power Faces Pressure Test in Court and at Ballot Box; President Trump has a lot riding on the results of Tuesday’s elections, his tariffs case at the Supreme Court and the future of the government shutdown”: Erica L. Green of The New York Times has this report.

“The Tariff King and the Supreme Court: Will the Justices stop Trump from usurping Congress’s power over taxes and tariffs?” This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Idaho book censorship law bothers Ninth Circuit; The schools say the state’s restrictions on ‘harmful’ materials violate their First Amendment rights”: Monique Merrill of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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

“Demanding Kavanaugh Recusal in School Prayer Case Ignores History”: Jeremy Dys has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power; The justices face a so-called legitimacy dilemma as they deal with a tricky legal dispute and a president who has made clear he would view defeat as a personal insult”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

Maureen Groppe of USA Today has a report headlined “Trump says his tariffs will help American businesses. So why are they suing? Small businesses are leading the charge against President Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The Supreme Court will hear their challenge on Nov. 5.”

John Fritze of CNN reports that “Big business sits out the Supreme Court fight over Donald Trump’s tariffs.”

And Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report headlined “A major question for the Supreme Court: Will it treat Trump as it did Biden?“

“The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid; One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid; It still has a long way to go”: Zach Montague of The New York Times has this report.

“NJ Solo Practitioner to Face Lisa Blatt in Supreme Court Debut”: Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“President Donald Trump pushes for ‘no’ vote on Pa. Supreme Court retention election; Trump blasts Justices Donohue, Dougherty, Wecht as ‘woke,’ ‘radical,’ but Dems outspending in race”: Benjamin Kail of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this report.

Gillian McGoldrick of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a report headlined “Five things we’re watching ahead of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court retention election; The high-stakes retention election over whether Justices Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht should remain on the bench is the biggest race on Pennsylvania’s November ballot.”

Carter Sherman of The Guardian reports that “Abortion is on the ballot in three US states, from supreme court to governor; Reproductive justice has changed the face of judicial and gubernatorial races as abortion sanctuaries fight back.”

Jane C. Timm of NBC News reports that “Pennsylvania Supreme Court faces a key election as justice warns that a deadlock would be ‘disastrous’; David Wecht, one of three Democratic justices facing up-or-down retention votes Tuesday, told NBC News that ‘it’s extremely hard to work with a shorthanded court.’”

Chris Potter of 90.5 WESA reports that “Trump urges ‘no’ on Pa. Supreme Court retention; Shapiro says POTUS has ‘zero credibility.’”

And Jaxon White of WITF reports that “Voters put off by polarization, ad barrage in Pa. Supreme Court election.”

“Ford Foundation’s New Leader Vows to Protect Elections and the Rule of Law; Heather K. Gerken, a voting rights scholar and former dean of Yale Law School, plans to intensify its emphasis on democracy as it girds for attacks from the Trump administration”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.

“What Is Going On Inside the Department of Justice? ‘Injustice,’ by the veteran journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, follows federal prosecutors at work under the presidencies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.” Jeffrey Toobin has this book review online at The New York Times.

“Voting Rights and Immigration Under Attack: The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause.” Jelani Cobb has this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the November 10, 2025 issue of The New Yorker.

“187. ‘Regular Forces’ and the Insurrection Act: The supplemental briefing order in the Illinois National Guard case provides an obvious way for the Court to block President Trump’s deployments to date—and a fair concern about what could come next.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The Legal Battles Over Trump’s War on Blue Cities”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett”: Georgetown Center for the Constitution has posted this video on YouTube.

“Judicial Notice (11.02.25): Oh, SNAP; Judges order the continuation of critical federal food benefits, AUSAs get in trouble for disrespecting January 6, and a sizable group of immigration lawyers leaves Biglaw.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.