“This Supreme Court Gun Case Isn’t Getting Enough Attention”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judicial Notice (01.25.26): Weathering The Storm; Jack Smith’s congressional testimony, an attack on a judge and his wife, a deal for U.S. TikTok (finally), and a slew of group moves in Biglaw.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Why Pam Bondi Didn’t Publish All the Epstein Files in 30 Days; The answer is simple: It was not possible.” William P. Barr has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Who Gave ICE Permission to Trample the Constitution? The Supreme Court’s expanding doctrine of qualified immunity is swallowing your constitutional rights whole.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Appeals Court Rejects Justice Dept. Push for Arrest Warrant for Don Lemon; The department had made an extraordinary request for the appeals court to force a judge to issue warrants for Mr. Lemon and four other people in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

And Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico report that “Appeals court rejects DOJ’s emergency bid to arrest Don Lemon, church demonstrators; The ruling by a panel that included two Trump appointees followed a sharp rebuke of prosecutors by the chief federal judge in Minnesota.”

You can view Friday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“Prominent Appellate Attorney Cate Stetson ’94 Joins Faculty; Stetson Has Served as an Instructor of Law’s School’s Appellate Litigation Clinic”: Cooper Allen of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.

“With executive power rampant, the right book has arrived; Decades ago, a Supreme Court justice explained how to think today about Trump’s power grabs”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice: Every federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case — and what they tell us about the Department of Justice’s litigation behavior.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

And earlier, Vladeck had a post titled “204. Accountability After Minneapolis: A short post explaining (1) why it’s so hard to hold federal officers and/or the federal government liable for violating our rights; and (2) how a one-sentence statute could (and *SHOULD*) fix it.”