“Barack Obama and John McCain Clash Over Selecting Judges; 2008 presidential contenders present competing visions of the judicial role”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Trump’s Midterm Redistricting Master Plan Is Falling Short; An unfavorable Supreme Court ruling and surprise Democratic enthusiasm in Texas show limits to president’s plan”: Aaron Zitner, Elizabeth Findell, and Olivia Beavers of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors; Some offices are so decimated that the Justice Department has sent in military lawyers; More recently, officials asked for volunteers from other offices who can quickly deploy to places in desperate need”: Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer, Mimi Dwyer, Ernesto Londoño, and Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times have this report.

“Appeals court backs Trump’s mass detention policy; The ruling from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals contradicts thousands of lower-court rulings”: Kyle Cheney of Politico has this report.

Devan Cole of CNN reports that “Appeals court greenlights Trump admin policy of detaining undocumented immigrants without opportunity to seek release.”

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “US appeals court upholds Trump’s immigration detention policy.”

Megan Crepeau of Bloomberg Law reports that “Fifth Circuit Sides With Trump on Immigrant Detention Law.”

Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fifth Circuit upholds Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy; A panel of judges ruled 2-1 that the government can lawfully require detention for all noncitizens in removal proceedings who entered the U.S. without being legally admitted.”

And at his “One First” Substack site, Steve Vladeck has a post titled “208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark: Late Friday, two of the nation’s most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.