“In Alabama Case, Supreme Court Faces First Major Test of Voting Rights Act Ruling; Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“Former Judges Urge Inquiry Into Deal Trump Struck With I.R.S.; The motion was particularly significant because it asked the judge overseeing the initial suit against the I.R.S. to examine the terms of the deal”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News reports that “Ex-Federal Judges Urge ‘Fraud’ Probe of Trump IRS Settlement.”

And Megan Butler of Courthouse News Service reports that “Former judges accuse Trump of deceiving court with fraudulent ‘anti-weaponization’ settlement; A settlement was never brought before the court before the president dismissed his suit against the IRS, according to 35 former federal judges.”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Judge to Decide How Long Torture’s Taint Infected the Sept. 11 Case; Eight days of legal arguments at Guantánamo have brought the long-running terrorism case to a moment of truth in the long wait for justice”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“When I Left Big Law, I Learned This”: Matthew Wollin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll”: Hannah Rabinowitz, Paula Reid, and Kara Scannell of CNN have this report.

And Glenn Thrush of The New York Times reports that “Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll; The investigation is said to center on whether Ms. Carroll committed perjury in civil lawsuits against Donald J. Trump, whom she accused of sexual assault.”

“Appeals court unlikely to intervene in ‘Scandoval’ revenge porn lawsuit; The ‘Vanderpump Rules’ love triangle may be a distant memory, but the litigation is just getting warmed up”: Hillel Aron of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Who Is The District Court Judge Who Was Privately Reprimanded For Having Loud Sex In Her Chambers With A Law Enforcement Officer From Her District? The clues in the memorandum point to a specific judge.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justice Anthony Kennedy assesses the challenges facing the Supreme Court in Trump’s second term”: You can access the new episode of the PBS program “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” via this link.

“A Warning to Quorum Breakers; If quorum breakers make legislation impossible, the Court has preserved room for itself to ‘throw them out’”: Aaron L. Nielson has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“Trump Slush Fund May Cost Todd Blanche the Attorney General Job”: Elie Honig has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“Allergan Product Liability Blindness Suit Revived by NJ Justices”: Alex Ebert of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

You can access today’s decision of a unanimous Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.

“Light Penalty for Judge Who Had Sex in Chambers Draws Criticism”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

It appears that online sleuths may have identified the judge involved, and presumably Congress could get involved if impeachment and removal from office were to be merited, so the “light penalty” imposed thus far might not be the end of the story.