“Five Takeaways From Luigi Mangione’s Evidence Hearing; The suspected gunman in the killing of UnitedHealth executive goes to court”: Alyssa Lukpat of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Supreme Court weighs further loosening campaign finance limits; Republican leaders are asking the high court to remove limits on how much parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates on items like advertisements”: Julian Mark of The Washington Post has this report.

And Andrew Howard and Josh Gerstein of Politico have a report headlined “Is JD Vance already running for president? The Supreme Court wants to know. The vice president’s future ambitions were a top topic during oral arguments Tuesday in a highly watched campaign finance case.”

“Is the Supreme Court Unsure About Birthright Citizenship? Maybe the Justices simply want to reiterate what the Court has already said — or maybe not.” Amy Davidson Sorkin has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Split DC Circuit sides with Pentagon on transgender military ban; The majority, both Donald Trump appointees, determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s policy was likely constitutional because a classification based on transgender status does not trigger heightened scrutiny”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access today’s order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and the opinions concurring therein and dissenting therefrom, at this link.

“Appeals Judges Push to Clearly Allow Introductions in Briefs”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can view the letter at this link.

“Videos Played at Mangione Hearings Reveal New Details About His Arrest; Prosecutors showed body camera footage as they argued that some evidence collected when Luigi Mangione was arrested should be admitted at trial”: Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya of The New York Times have this report.

“At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash”: Law professors Kate Shaw, William Baude, and Stephen I. Vladeck have this discussion online at The New York Times Opinion.

“A Key Question for the Supreme Court: What About the Fed? The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause; But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Is Asked to Take Another Ax to Campaign Finance Limits; The case centers on efforts by Republican officials to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates”: Abbie VanSickle and Shane Goldmacher of The New York Times have this report.