“A Senators-Only Right to Sue in Shutdown Deal; In their legislation reopening the government, senators awarded themselves a legal power to sue the government that should be universal”: Anya Bidwell and Patrick Jaicomo have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Judging The Justice System In The Age Of Trump: Nancy Gertner.” You can access the new episode of David Lat’s “Original Jurisdiction” podcast via this link.

“Gorsuch Joins Sotomayor as Supreme Court Children’s Author”: Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Justice Dept. Struggled to Find Lawyers to Handle Maurene Comey Suit; Ms. Comey, the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, sued the Trump administration after she was abruptly fired; Now the U.S. attorney in Albany has agreed to take the case”: Jonah E. Bromwich and William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times have this report.

“Judge will rule soon on Comey and James effort to disqualify prosecutor; U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie appeared skeptical that Lindsey Halligan had been lawfully appointed as U.S. attorney”: Jeremy Roebuck and Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post have this report.

C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Prosecutor in James Comey, Letitia James Cases Faces Test of Legitimacy; Judge considers whether Trump administration legally appointed Lindsey Halligan, who quickly brought charges president wanted.”

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Judge appears skeptical of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment as interim US attorney; A ruling against Halligan could threaten the cases she brought against James Comey and Letitia James.”

Chris Strohm and Jimmy Jenkins of Bloomberg News report that “Trump Foes Comey, James Dispute Prosecutor’s Authority in Court.”

And Gary Grumbach, Fiona Glisson, and Gabrielle Khoriaty of NBC News report that “Judge appears skeptical of DOJ arguments for keeping Lindsey Halligan as prosecutor in James Comey and Letitia James cases; Attorneys for Comey and James argued that Halligan is unlawfully serving as acting U.S. attorney and therefore the indictments against the pair should be thrown out.”

“Halligan in the hot seat as Comey, James move to disqualify her as interim US attorney; A judge will hear arguments Thursday on the validity of Lindsey Halligan’s appointment to lead the Eastern District of Virginia”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward of Reuters report that “Trump foes Comey, James to challenge appointment of US attorney.”

And Alexander Mallin, Katherine Faulders, and Nicholas Kerr of ABC News report that “Attorneys for Comey, James set to challenge appointment of Trump-installed prosecutor; Lawyers for the two will argue that Lindsey Halligan was unlawfully appointed.”

“Bonus 192: The Court vs. the Circuit Justice; Tuesday’s ruling in the SNAP case appears to be the second example in seven months (and for quite some before that) of the full Supreme Court taking an application away from the circuit justice.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Trump v. James and Maurene Comey”: Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.