“DOJ Defense of Top Prosecutors Tees Up Debate for Supreme Court”: Celine Castronuovo and Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Supreme Court Urged to Reject GOP-Drawn Texas Voting Maps”: Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg News has this report.

“In Gulf of America case, AP renews legal fight to end White House ban; The Associated Press, which sued the government after being barred from covering White House events, presented its case to a circuit court panel”: Scott Nover of The Washington Post has this report.

And Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service reports that “DC Circuit judges spar over AP access to White House; A general rule barring federal courts from issuing injunctions against the president stands in the way of restoring Oval Office access for the nation’s largest wire service.”

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“The Gang That Couldn’t Indict Straight; Trump’s revenge lawfare on James Comey and Letitia James gets thrown out of court”: This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“It Turns Out Lindsey Halligan Was a Fake Prosecutor All Along”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“How Constitutional Limits Become Negotiable”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judge Dismisses Cases Against Comey and James, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed; The decision is a setback for the president’s efforts to wield the criminal justice system against his perceived enemies”: Alan Feuer and Devlin Barrett of The New York Times have this report.

Jeremy Roebuck and Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post report that “Judge tosses cases against Comey and James, rules prosecutor appointment unlawful; The decision could end the prosecution of the former FBI director; The government could refile charges against the New York attorney general.”

C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal reports that “James Comey and Letitia James Cases Dismissed in Blow to DOJ; Judge finds Lindsey Halligan, who led the prosecution of two of the president’s perceived adversaries, wasn’t properly appointed.”

Susan Ferrechio of The Washington Times reports that “Judge dismisses criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James.”

Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein, and Hassan Ali Kanu of Politico report that “Comey, James cases dismissed as judge disqualifies interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan; A judge concluded Halligan’s appointment violated laws that limit the ability of DOJ to install top prosecutors without Senate confirmation.”

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico also have a report headlined “Lindsey Halligan is out — but there are major questions about what comes next; Here’s a look at the most pertinent questions following the dismissal of the cases against James Comey and Letitia James — and what might come next.”

You can access here and here today’s rulings of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

“Trump’s Mark on Ninth Circuit Tested as Challenges Progress”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The DOJ’s Prosecutorial Malpractice Keeps Spilling Out in Court; New developments in the Epstein and Comey sagas have revealed a lot about how justice can still break through the lawlessness of this moment”: You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Judicial Notice (11.23.25): Benchslaps And Bonuses; A wild ride of a dissent, the start of Biglaw bonus season, a problem for the prosecution in the Comey case, and a major transatlantic merger.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Boy Math, Boy Law, Man Problems”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“194. Another Bad Week for the Presumption of Regularity: Three different flashpoints highlight how much the Trump administration has done, in such short order, to undermine its own litigation efforts and to damage — perhaps irreparably — DOJ’s credibility.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“‘Ticking Time Bomb’: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.” Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser of ProPublica have this report.

“Federal prosecutors say Bondi’s comments shouldn’t affect Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case”: Michael R. Sisak of The Associated Press has this report.

And David Voreacos, Patricia Hurtado, and Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News report that “Luigi Mangione’s Death Penalty Case Shouldn’t Be Tossed, US Says.”

“Disappeared to a Foreign Prison: The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.” Sarah Stillman has this Annals of Immigration article in the December 1, 2025 issue of The New Yorker.