“Judicial Notice (12.14.25): Not Dead Yet; Alina Habba’s bye-bye, Emil Bove’s boo-boo, Jack Smith’s second act, Becca Slaughter’s day of reckoning, and a 30-person hire by Cooley.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Man sentenced for setting fire in Colorado Supreme Court building that caused extensive damage; Brandon Olsen pleaded guilty in July to one count of arson; He broke into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center on Jan. 2, 2024, and started a fire”: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks of 9News in Denver has this report.

“Leon Schools asks Supreme Court to reject parents’ appeal in gender case”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report.

You can access the brief in opposition at this link.

“Arkansas Supreme Court dismisses chief justice’s appeal of HR report alleging harassment; Three special justices were appointed to replace three justices who recused themselves, including the chief justice”: Tess Vrbin of Arkansas Advocate has this report.

“This is why you’re wrong about the Supreme Court and Trump; The conservative majority of the Supreme Court is on a mission to put everything back into the right box; The goal is not to grow or shrink the power of any individual branch of government”: Columnist Dace Potas has this essay online at USA Today.

“With Fed independence in crosshairs, will Supreme Court back Trump again?” Jan Wolfe of Reuters has this report.

“Trump administration races to finalize tariff payments — and hamstring possible refunds; In response, companies are now filing lawsuits to make sure they get paid back if the Supreme Court invalidates some of the president’s duties”: Ari Hawkins and Doug Palmer of Politico have this report.

“One Amendment Explains It All: A decades-long conservative project to reject the reconstruction amendments is riding the coattails of Trump’s lawless chaos all the way to SCOTUS.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“The Restoration Narrative in Constitutional Law; As Opposed to the Redemption Narrative”: Cass Sunstein has this post at his “Cass’s Substack” site.

And at his “Shapiro’s Gavel” Substack site, Ilya Shapiro has a post titled “The End of the Beginning: The conservative legal movement is in the fourth inning, not the bottom of the ninth.”

“In this Supreme Court case, a sledgehammer is better than a scalpel; On Trump’s ability to fire the heads of agencies, the Supreme Court should take the harder route”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.