“How Trump changed my mind on the filibuster: The Senate’s 60-vote requirement is an excuse for aggrandizing executive power.” Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“When Courts of Appeals Decide Issues Pending Before the Supreme Court; The practice is not consistent”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Free Speech Lawsuit From Immigration Judges; The case, brought by the union representing immigration judges, could have implications for other workplace claims brought by government officials”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Waco judge who refused to marry same-sex couples asks federal courts to overturn right to gay marriage; Judge Dianne Hensley, who has been fighting the state judicial oversight body since 2019, is hoping to tee up a new challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges ruling”: Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Former Obama Solicitor General Keeps Faith in the Supreme Court”: Tali Hayes of The Greyhound of Loyola University Maryland has this report.

In related commentary, online at The Guardian, law professors Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn have an essay titled “It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced; We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule.”

And at the “Divided Argument” Substack site, Richard M Re has a post titled “On Polls and Supreme Court Legitimacy: Did the Supreme Court Lose or Gain Legitimacy in 2025?“

“Mangione’s Lawyers Take Issue With Bondi’s Ties to UnitedHealthcare; Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive, say Attorney General Pam Bondi should have recused herself from the case”: Hurubie Meko of The New York Times has this report.

“The Forgotten Lawsuits Targeting Trump’s Worst Abuses: The Alien Enemies Act litigation may have fallen off the front pages, but it’s about to make headlines again.” You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.