“Depleted and Distracted, Justice Dept. Staff Fear Losing Focus on Potential Threats; Rank-and-file prosecutors and agents have expressed serious concern that a hobbled work force hurts the government’s ability to identify and stop terrorist plots, cyberattacks, mass violence and fraud”: Michael S. Schmidt, Devlin Barrett, and Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times have this report.

“Trump’s New Judges Have Nothing Bad to Say About January 6; Trump has spent the last year erasing evidence of his attempt to overthrow the government; During their confirmation processes, his judicial nominees have been happy to help”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Prosecutors defend Pam Bondi’s impartiality in Mangione murder case; Mangione’s defense team claims Bondi should recuse herself from his case because of her ties to a lobbying firm that worked with United Healthcare”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“NC judges rule against Gov. Josh Stein on power to fill vacancies on top courts”: Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

And Sydney Haulenbeek of Courthouse News Service reports that “North Carolina governor can’t claw back judicial appointment power; Governor Josh Stein was seeking to regain sole control over vacancies in the state’s Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, rather than being required to choose from a list of nominees presented by the political party of the departing judge.”

You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals at this link.

“Senate Judiciary clashes over judicial impeachments, rising threats against judges; Republicans have renewed an effort to remove a pair of federal judges who they said have abused their power, but some expert witnesses and Democrat warned that such a campaign could further threaten federal courts”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law reports that “Senate Republicans Call to Impeach Federal Judges Over Rulings.”

You can view the video of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing via this link.

“The Supreme Court Could Give the GOP a Political Lifeline”: Ronald Brownstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1881 to 1901; Every president from 1881 to 1901 successfully defended presidential at-will removal power”: Steven Calabresi has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” along with a related post titled “Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1901 to 1921; Every president from 1901 to 1921 successfully defended presidential removal power at will.”

“Tom Goldstein’s NYT Story Should be Evidence, Prosecutors Say”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

Update: You can access the motion at this link.

“Judging Fast and Slow”: Bert I. Huang has this post at the Democracy Project of NYU Law.

“Does the Supreme Court Favor the Rich? The NYT profiles a sloppy and highly problematic empirical study of the Supreme Court.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“The Situation: One Judicial Opinion That Sums Up Everything; Judge Paula Xinis’s opinion last month in the Abrego Garcia case is worth a deeper read.” Olivia Manes and Benjamin Wittes have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Second-Order Constitutional Theory”: Law professor Aaron Tang has posted this article online at SSRN.