“There Are Scandals. There Is the Law. And Then There’s This.” Emily Bazelon and David French have this conversation online at The New York Times.

“NY High Court, Volokh Tussle With Hate Speech Law’s Requirements”: Beth Wang of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Court Packing: A Threat to the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy.” House Judiciary GOP has posted this video on YouTube.

“House Democrats take on the Supreme Court shadow docket; A trio of bills from Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin would require Supreme Court justices to explain their secretive emergency orders and change how the high court selects cases for review”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before”: Noah Shachtman has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Supreme Court dismisses death penalty case on people with mental disabilities; The majority dismissed on procedural grounds the case of Joseph Clifton Smith, whose mental faculties skirt the threshold for being spared the death penalty”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the opinions accompanying it, at this link.

“Audit Immunity for Trump Family Puts I.R.S. in a Bind; Federal law prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from halting an audit at the direction of the president or his aides”: Andrew Duehren of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“The President Who Sued Himself; The Trump administration settles Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS with $1.776 billion for his allies and blanket immunity from government suits for the Trumps”: Anna Bower and Eric Columbus have this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“After languishing in state legislatures across the country, a novel approach to curtailing money in politics becomes law in Hawaii; SB 2471 was crafted allow the state to curb corporate political spending”: Will Lennon and Beatrice Peterson of ABC News have this report.

“Benjamin Flowers pressed on Ohio record at Senate hearing for appeals judgeship”: Sabrina Eaton of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

“The I.R.S. Thought It Could Fight Trump’s Lawsuit, but It Struck a Deal Anyway; Officials wrote a memo outlining ways to challenge President Trump’s suit against the Internal Revenue Service; The administration is instead creating a compensation fund”: Andrew Duehren of The New York Times has this report.

“Ex-Solicitor General Prelogar Joins Tom Goldstein’s Legal Team”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

You can access the federal government’s recently filed Opposition to Goldstein’s Motion for Judgment of Acquittal or New Trial at this link.

Update: In other news coverage, Mike Scarcella of Reuters reports that “Washington lawyer Goldstein hires ex-US solicitor general Prelogar to fight tax verdict.”

“All the Things Wrong with Trump’s Billion-Dollar Fund”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“An Early Look at Scalia-Ginsburg Friendship; Competing (or not) over a law clerk”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund in the Cross Hairs; Critics say the deal creates a ‘slush fund,’ a term with a colorful maritime history”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.