“Justice Department Makes Abrupt Reversal on Law Firm Sanctions; Decision comes less than a day after the Trump administration told a court it was dropping appeals of four lower-court losses”: Erin Mulvaney and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Mark Berman of The Washington Post reports that “Justice Dept. reverses course and seeks to defend orders targeting law firms; The administration had moved to drop its defense of President Donald Trump’s executive orders sanctioning law firms; A day later, it abruptly backpedaled.”

Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service reports that “DOJ reverses course to continue defending law firm sanctions in sudden about-face; In a response to the Justice Department, the four firms said the reversal was unexplained and urged the D.C. Circuit to maintain a Friday briefing deadline.”

And in commentary, The Washington Post has published an editorial titled “Hotter heads prevail at Trump’s Justice Department; The administration keeps up its fight to meddle in the business of law firms.”

“Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him.” Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano of The New York Times have this report.

“Justices Signal Openness to Expanding Appeal Waiver Exceptions”: Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Justices seek escape hatch for far-out criminal sentences under appellate waivers; The justices worried that closing off all expectations to appellate waivers would cement unlawful sentencing decisions and bring the judiciary into disrepute.”

“The Situation: Stand With Anthropic; You might not like the creator of Claude, but its fight with Pete Hegseth is important for the rule of law.” Alan Z. Rozenshtein and Benjamin Wittes have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“A Remarkable Reversal In Trump v. Biglaw; The DOJ now seeks to ‘undismiss’ its appeals of rulings against its executive orders targeting law firms — less than 24 hours after moving to dismiss the appeals”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Incumbent SC Supreme Court Justice John Few abruptly withdraws from heated re-election race”: Anna Wilder and Nick Reynolds of The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina have this report.

“Trump Administration, in Apparent Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms; The administration told a court on Monday that it was abandoning its defense of executive orders targeting the firms; But on Tuesday, the Justice Department appeared to abruptly change its position”: Michael S. Schmidt, Jonah E. Bromwich, and Devlin Barrett of The New York Times have this report.

“Supreme Court denies appeal in AI-generated art case; The high court declined to decide whether an artificial intelligence machine could author a work under copyright law”: Steve Garrison of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“White House faces thousands of lawsuits as it tries to slow-walk tariff refunds; The Trump administration is attempting to delay the process for repaying importers for duties the Supreme Court struck down last month”: Ari Hawkins of Politico has this report.

“Infiltrating the Supreme Court: A roundtable conversation with top Supreme Court reporters on secrecy at the court, the justices’ ethics and how they do their job at a crucial moment.” Ankush Khardori has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won.” The New York Times has published this editorial.

“The American Bar Association and the Federalist Society: a few thoughts on taking sides.” William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.