“Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View; An inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death; It’s now locked in a courthouse”: Benjamin Weiser, Steve Eder, and Jan Ransom of The New York Times have this report.

“The Comey indictment could be upended by this 2015 Supreme Court precedent; The high court a decade ago explicitly overturned the legal standard that prosecutors are now citing to charge Comey with threatening President Trump”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this news analysis.

“Judge Asks Justice Department: Will You Oppose Trump? A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain whether it intends to contest President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. over the disclosure of his tax returns.” Andrew Duehren of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“Second Circuit debates NYC self-defense law in case of 2022 fatal stabbing by bodega clerk; Jose Alba, a bodega employee who fatally stabbed a customer in the neck in 2022, is looking to revive claims of malicious prosecution and false arrest”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Comey Indictment Shows Justice Dept. Got the Message From Bondi’s Firing; In naming only an interim successor as acting attorney general, President Trump has established even greater incentives to execute his most extreme demands, current and former officials say”: Glenn Thrush of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“Inside the courtroom for the Voting Rights Act’s final bow; Before the Supreme Court began broadcasting live audio from inside the courtroom, Justices Alito and Kagan gave dueling views over the intersection of race and politics in a representative democracy”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

Unanimous Supreme Court of Pennsylvania holds that doctrine of nullum tempus cannot be invoked to preclude application of Pennsylvania’s Construction Statute of Repose: You can access the decision at this link.

“Trump Judicial Pick ABA Rated Unqualified Advances in Senate”: Olivia Alafriz of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service reports that “Top Democrat decries ‘slow-mo self-destruction’ of Senate Judiciary Committee; In an extraordinary statement, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse slammed his colleagues on the Senate’s powerful judicial affairs panel for handing their authority over nominees to the executive branch.”

“DOJ Readies Fed Subpoena Appeal After Closing Powell Probe”: Chris Strohm of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Top Comey Prosecutor Parroted Trump on Way to Targeting His Foe”: Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law has this report, along with a report headlined “Trump DOJ Pursuing Separate Comey Probe for Classified Leaks.”

“Free Speech Means Kimmel Has the Right to Ridicule You”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Big Law Firms Asked to Weigh in on Trump IRS Case Jurisdiction”: Erin Slowey of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Abortion Clinic in Fight Over Donor Records; A crisis pregnancy group had asked the justices to allow it to sue in federal court over a demand for donor information by New Jersey officials”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“Shadow Docket Memos Reveal Uneven Reliance on Officials’ Remarks”: Law professor Kate Shaw has this essay online at Bloomberg Law.

“John Roberts’ effort to gut the Voting Rights Act is complete”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“What Does the Correspondents Dinner Have to Do With Trump’s Ballroom Project? The case may test just how far national security deference by the courts to the executive can stretch.” Eric Columbus and Molly Roberts have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“The Supreme Court Did Not Want to Talk About Trump’s Long History of Gutter Racism; The president has never been shy about why he wants to deport Haitian people; The justices are pretending to have never heard any of it”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Supreme Court’s decision against Voting Rights Act will be devastating”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

And online at MS Now, law professor Richard L. Hasen has an essay titled “The Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling creates a dangerous choice for Democrats; Democrats could spread out minority voters who are reliable supporters to help capture more seats; But doing so would reduce minority representation in the House.”

“Media outrage over Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act decision collides with reality; Justice Alito’s majority opinion applied existing statutes and case law without overturning any prior cases”: John Shu has this essay online at Fox News.

And online at City Journal, Dan Morenoff has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Strikes a Blow for Voting Rights Sanity; Its decision in Callais finally solves the Goldilocks problem of racial districting.”

“US Supreme Court under Roberts takes ‘wrecking ball’ to Voting Rights Act”: John Kruzel of Reuters has this report.

“In Narrowing Voting Rights Act, Conservative Justices See Progress on Racism; The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed; Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“Adam Liptak on the ‘Shadow Docket,’ a Changing Supreme Court, and How It’s Covered; The longtime ‘New York Times’ correspondent and inaugural journalist-in-residence at the Constitutional Law Institute examines rapid-fire decisions, real-time reporting, and the tension between transparency and confidentiality”: Mark A. Cohen of the University of Chicago Law School has this report.

“Chief Justice Roberts Played the Long Game on Voting Rights; Since his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“Bonus 223: ‘They Are Who We Thought They Were’; Wednesday’s Callais ruling has understandably prompted renewed calls for Court reform; It also provides a stark reminder of why the most popular reform proposals *aren’t* how we should fix the Court.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now; Just say it’s because they’re Democrats”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Sonia Sotomayor’s False Testimony About Firefighters Case; Ricci v. DeStefano, Part 4”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Even Eve-ier”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.