“Supreme Court wrestles with death penalty in cases of intellectual disabilities; The justices wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states’ death rows”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

“Ninth Circuit Upholds Federal Machine Gun Ban in Split Decision”: Isaiah Poritz of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally; One of the president’s appeals-court nominees, a former lawyer for the president, was in the crowd at a raucous event in Mt. Pocono, Pa.” Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

Nick Moyle of NJ Advance Media has a report headlined “A federal judge attended Trump’s latest rally. Here’s why that’s ‘highly unusual.’”

Mike Scarcella of Reuters reports that “Trump-allied judge draws scrutiny for rally appearance.”

Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has a report headlined “Did Emil Bove violate judicial ethics code with appearance at Trump rally? Experts and lawmakers are questioning the decision by the controversial Third Circuit judge and former Trump lawyer, who has long been accused of political loyalty to the White House.”

And in commentary, online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has a post titled “Emil Bove Will Always Be a Trump Rallygoer First; Trump demands loyalty from his judicial nominees; As Emil Bove demonstrated on Tuesday, his nominees are very comfortable with displaying that loyalty in public.”

“Supreme Court Weighs Opening Investment Funds to More Suits”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law; Attending Trump’s rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning; Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“Campaign Finance in a Polarized Republic: The party spending case before the Court is about an old quarrel, but the stakes are very different now.” Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“Trump wants Supreme Court’s oldest justices, Thomas and Alito, to stay; ‘I hope they stay ’cause I think they’re fantastic, OK? Both of those men are fantastic,’ Trump said of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the two oldest members of the court”: Zac Anderson of USA Today has this report.

“The Liberal Justices Aren’t as United as You Might Think; Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson are split over the best approach: investing in diplomacy inside the court or sounding the alarm outside.” You can access today’s episode of “The Daily” podcast from The New York Times via this link.

“Llano County library book removals allowed after U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear challenge; Seven residents launched a challenge in 2022 to the removal of 17 books, which included topics on race and gender; They won a reinstatement of the titles, but lost on appeal”: Alex Nguyen of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Supreme Costs: A condensed version of our series on the ‘obscene’ spending on Wisconsin justices; In a three-part series, Wisconsin Watch examines why our state set back-to-back national records in Supreme Court election spending and what can be done about it.” Larry Sandler of Wisconsin Watch has this report.

“North Dakota names first female Supreme Court chief justice”: Mary Steurer of North Dakota Monitor has this report.

“Trump’s lawyer pushed for more executive power; Supreme Court justices seem eager to comply”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“The Supreme Court Might Actually Simplify Campaign Finance”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judge Suggests Prosecutor on Comey and James Cases Should Resign as U.S. Attorney; Lindsey Halligan’s indictments against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, were dismissed last month over Ms. Halligan’s appointment”: Devlin Barrett of The New York Times has this report.

And Alan Feuer of The New York Times reports that “Justice Dept. Fights Roadblock to Pursuing Comey Case; The battle preceded the department’s looming decision over whether — and how — to bring new charges against James B. Comey.”

“Emil Bove Attends Trump Rally in Rare Move for Federal Judge”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court Hears Death Penalty Case on Intellectual Disability; The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Seems Ready to Let the President Fire Almost Anyone”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Three Years After Dobbs, ‘the Reality Is People Are Getting Abortions’; The state divide over abortions has only deepened since the Supreme Court decision; But research shows the number of abortions has climbed”: Soumya Karlamangla of The New York Times has this report.

“Dan Markel murder: Donna Adelson moved to prison closer to home.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

Access online the American Tort Reform Foundation’s 2025-2026 Judicial Hellholes report: At this link.

“DOJ’s slow-walking of the law firm cases continues, pushing appeals well into 2026; The Trump admin has often rushed to the Supreme Court this year; In the law firm cases, though, DOJ — even though it lost below — is moving the appeals as slowly as possible”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“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.

“Judge calls for Justice Dept. whistleblower to testify in migrant planes case; Judge James E. Boasberg said he wants to hear from former Justice Dept. attorney Erez Reuveni in an inquiry that could lead to a criminal contempt referral involving Trump administration officials”: Steve Thompson of The Washington Post has this report.

Kyle Cheney of Politico reports that “Boasberg escalates contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act deportations; The judge ordered testimony from two of the top DOJ lawyers involved in the March deportation operation.”

And Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg News reports that “Judge Summons DOJ Lawyers for Testimony in Contempt Probe.”

Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove filed this declaration in the district court proceeding today.

“DOJ Hits Back at Judges Doubting Halligan’s US Attorney Role”: Celine Castronuovo of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Trump’s Pardon of Honduran Ex-President Erases Top Loyalist’s Triumph; Emil Bove III’s work as a prosecutor, before he was a Trump lawyer and official, helped lead to the conviction of the former Honduran leader whom President Trump freed this week”: Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times recently had this report.

“Firing Immigration Judges Threatens More Than Immigrants”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“The Supreme Court Is About to Hand Trump a Cudgel in the Paramount-Netflix Fight”: Mark Joseph Stern has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.