“A Year Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.” Emily Bazelon and Rachel Poser have this article online at The New York Times Magazine.

“Fifth Circuit split on Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelans; Judges questioned the extent to which courts have the power to second-guess the president’s invocation of the 18th-century law”: Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law reports that “Fifth Circuit Weighs Deferring to Trump on Wartime Authority.”

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“IRS Told Goldstein to Keep Better Gambling Records, Jury Hears”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Bonus 203: Correcting the Record in the Social Security/DOGE Case; An eye-opening filing by the Department of Justice should give more than a little pause to the justices with respect to one of their earlier grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“George W. Bush’s Minor Impact on D.C. Circuit; Key appellate court is left ripe for liberal takeover”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Bok Choy”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“Ferris High School grad formally sworn in on Washington Supreme Court”: Mitchell Roland of The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington has this report.

“‘The Justices Might Actually Have to Say No, Even to the President’”: Law professors Kate Shaw, William Baude, and Stephen I. Vladeck have this written discussion online at The New York Times.

“ALI Elects Wallace B. Jefferson, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, as Its Next President”: The American Law Institute issued this news release today.

“Race looms large in gun-rights arguments at Supreme Court; The justices debated post-Civil War ‘Black codes’ as they mulled a Hawaii law limiting guns in public places”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

“The full Fed battle”: Mark Walsh has this View from the Court post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Supreme Court conservatives have downplayed Trump’s conduct. The Fed case may change that.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.