“Justice Neil Gorsuch: ‘Aspirations for power need to be checked.’” The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie has posted this video on YouTube.

“226. Two More Data Points for the Inconsistent Court: Two procedural moves by the justices on Monday reinforce criticisms that the Court behaves differently in otherwise similar cases based solely on the ideological/partisan valence of the dispute.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Supreme Court Over the Dissent of At Least Justice Jackson, Breaks Its Usual Procedural Rules to Allow Louisiana to Minimize Black Voting Rights in the Middle of an Ongoing Election”: Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Samuel Alito Gutted More Than Just the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too. The Court’s decision in Callais will make it more challenging for Congress to pass laws designed to protect multiracial democracy.” Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“DOJ asks Second Circuit to back end-run installation of Trump’s disqualified New York US attorney pick; John Sarcone III was one of several federal prosecutors around the country determined by judges to lack authority after the Republican administration employed personnel maneuvers to keep them in their posts without U.S. Senate confirmation”: Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument via this link.

“Pirro will not appeal judge’s quashing of Fed subpoenas; The move is the latest sign of retreat by the Justice Department in what became a politically fraught investigation”: Salvador Rizzo and Andrew Ackerman of The Washington Post have this report.

“Federal Judge Has ‘Grave Concerns’ About Missouri Roundup Deal”: Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “A federal judge overseeing thousands of cancer lawsuits against Bayer AG and its Roundup weedkiller said he had ‘grave concerns’ about whether a proposed $7.25 billion class-action settlement in Missouri could properly address future claims outside the state.”

“Will Massachusetts Sour on Religious Freedom? Plaintiffs seek to banish religious symbols using the Lemon test, which the U.S. Supreme Court ‘long ago abandoned.’” Law professors Michael McConnell and John Witte Jr. have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“A Radical Court Just Called Trump’s Abortion Bluff”: Law professors Naomi Cahn and Sonia M. Suter have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Sierra Dawn McClain will have an op-ed titled “Mifepristone as a Tool of Coercion; Women across the country claim their boyfriends forced or deceived them into taking the abortion drug.”

“First Circuit scrutinizes denial of bond hearings for ICE detainees; The government faced resistance from judges who questioned why the Laken Riley Act would need to exist if ICE truly had broad discretion to detain immigrants”: Erik Uebelacker of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument via this link.

“Trump’s Interpretation of the War Powers Resolution Is Wrong But Not Crazy; It builds on past presidential opportunism on the WPR”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“The Triumph of Clarence Thomas; As he becomes the second-longest-serving Justice, the Supreme Court has shifted his way”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion Pill by Mail; A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

Praveena Somasundaram, Justin Jouvenal, and Julian Mark of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill by mail for now; The order reinstates mail access to the drug for one week while the justices consider emergency applications by drugmakers.”

James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Justice Alito Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion Pills by Mail; The order, which isn’t a final ruling on the dispute, allows time for the high court to consider the issue more fully.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Mail-order access to abortion drug reinstated by Supreme Court.”

And Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court allows abortion pill by mail to continue — for now.”

You can access here and here today’s orders of the U.S. Supreme Court.

“225. How Congress Used to Leverage the Court: History is replete with examples of Congress using its powers to leverage, nudge, and even threaten the Supreme Court; A big part of how we got to where we are is that Congress has stopped doing so.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Mifepristone Returns to the Shadow Docket; Drug makers seek interim relief after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocks FDA rule allowing mifepristone prescriptions via telemedicine”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Declares Racism Over”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

In the May 11, 2026 issue of The New Yorker: Diego Lasarte has a Talk of the Town item titled “Is the Twenty-fifth Amendment Really an Option? After J.F.K.’s assassination, a neophyte lawyer named John Feerick was summoned to Washington to draft the provision; Now everyone wants him to weigh in on booting Trump from office.”

And Jill Lepore has an article headlined “Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits? Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front; It came at a cost.”