“Appeals Court Says Trump Must End Los Angeles Deployment by Monday; While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city”: Shawn Hubler of The New York Times has this report.

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“The View from Here: There’s a clear line from Bush v. Gore, 25 years ago, to the January 6 insurrection.” Jeffrey Toobin has this essay online at Air Mail.

“D.C. Circuit’s Trump appointees again block Judge Boasberg’s contempt inquiry; DOJ keeps going to the D.C. Circuit, where Trump appointees on the court have repeatedly stopped the district court’s effort to hold the Trump admin accountable”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“First Circuit reverses block on Trump’s Planned Parenthood funding cuts; The appeals panel said that a provision of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ that stripped Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood didn’t violate the reproductive health care giant’s rights”: Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service has this report on a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday.

“Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey; Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post reports that “Judge’s ruling could doom Trump’s bid to prosecute Comey; The ruling delivered another setback to the Justice Department’s rapidly foundering effort to prosecute one of Trump’s chief foes.”

And Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Court orders DOJ to return data seized from Comey friend; U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled the material obtained from law professor Daniel Richman was handled with ‘callous disregard’ for his rights.”

You can access yesterday’s redacted opinion of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia at this link.

“North Carolina man asks Fourth Circuit to nix child porn flagged by Google algorithm; A Fourth Circuit panel appeared at odds on the role of automated searches in criminal investigations, reflecting a larger divide among the appellate courts on the issue”: Steve Garrison of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Appeals court weighs fate of US whistleblower law”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.

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

“Feds ask Ninth Circuit to lift block on excessive force against journalists; The appellate panel expressed some concern that a Joe Biden appointee’s preliminary injunction might run afoul of the Supreme Court’s condemnation of sweeping orders”: Edvard Pettersson of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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

“In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss; This week demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.” Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this news analysis.

“San Diego judge sentences GirlsDoPorn bookkeeper who offered ‘false assurances’ to victims; Valorie Moser transported about 100 women from the San Diego airport to local hotels, often helping calm their nerves despite knowing they were being deceived”: Alex Riggins of The San Diego Union-Tribune has this report.

And Quinn Welsch of Courthouse News Service reports that “Woman who recruited victims for GirlsDoPorn sentenced to prison; Employed to manage the books at GirlsDoPorn, Valorie Moser provided a friendly face to young women who were later coerced into acting in pornography videos.”