“DOJ’s targeting of Trump critics ramps up with attempt to indict lawmakers; The case is the first time the Justice Department has attempted to classify critical speech from prominent Trump detractors as a crime”: Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein, Theodoric Meyer, and Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post have this report.

And in commentary, online at The New York Times, Chesa Boudin and law professor Eric S. Fish have a guest essay titled “A Grand Jury Will Indict a Ham Sandwich? Not in the Trump Era.”

“The Conservative Movement Was Ready For Antonin Scalia’s Death; The sequence of events kicked off by Scalia’s passing a decade ago might feel improbable; But the right was waiting for its chance to capture the Court, and didn’t let it go to waste”: Jay Willis has this essay online at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Solicitor General Pushing Justices to Take More Cases Uninvited”: Justin Wise and Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Supreme Court Schedules Opinions on Feb. 20 as Tariff Case Looms”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Trump Yet to Announce Judicial Nominations in Some Red States”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Justice Antonin Scalia’s Legacy: 10 Years Later | Day 2”: American Enterprise Institute has posted this video on YouTube.

And Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal reports that “Judges Recount Scalia Clerkships Ahead of 10-Year Anniversary of His Death; ‘You learned very quickly as a Scalia clerk that he wouldn’t respect you if you wouldn’t disagree,’ said Judge Jeffrey Sutton.”