“Trump Plan to Pause Anti-Weaponization Fund Faces GOP Skepticism”: Kate Sullivan, Jeff Mason, Erik Wasson, and Caitlin Reilly of Bloomberg News have a report that begins, “The Trump administration’s plans to scrap, for now, a controversial $1.8 billion legal fund for victims of alleged government ‘weaponization’ ran into skepticism from Republican senators who demanded public assurances the fund is dead.”

“Fifth Circuit split on Louisiana police buffer zone law; A group of media companies is challenging the law, arguing it interferes with journalists’ ability to engage in newsgathering”: Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Split appeals court panel protects some transgender people already in military; The ruling allows the Trump administration to keep its policy barring new transgender enlistees”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

And Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service reports that “DC Circuit rules Pentagon policy banning transgender soldiers unconstitutional; The appeals panel ruled 2-1 that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s ban violated the equal protection clause, blocking the expulsion of active-duty service members while maintaining a bar on new recruits.”

You can access today’s decision of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in which each of the three judges on the panel wrote separately, at this link.

“Texas prisoner wins Supreme Court review in self-represented petition; A Texas prisoner’s rare successful pro se petition sought clarification on applying the First Step Act, an issue the justices have repeatedly ruled on in recent years”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law reports that “Inmate Who Filed Own Appeal Gets Supreme Court Review.”

“Ex-DOJ Lawyer Who Defended Trump’s Big Law Attacks Lands at Firm”: Tatyana Monnay of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Trump Administration Signals Retreat on ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund After Blowback; Justice Department says it will abide by a court order directing it to temporarily halt work on the nearly $1.8 billion fund during a legal challenge”: Sadie Gurman and Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

And Kate Sullivan and Courtney Subramanian of Bloomberg News report that “Trump to Drop Plans for $1.8 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

“Trump admin plans to drop ‘weaponization’ fund”: Marc Caputo of Axios has this report.

“The Road to Hana is a road that takes you to Hana”: You can learn this and more in a podcast episode from December 2018 titled “Life LowDown of Ann O’Connell Adams,” which is tangentially related to today’s U.S. Supreme Court cert. grant in a case that began with a pro se request for SCOTUS review.

“Ballrooms, ‘Bama and (Very) Bad Behavior”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“230. Florida v. California: Justices Thomas and Alito have been (mostly) consistent in arguing that the Court *must* hear disputes between two or more states; Florida v. California is a good example of why I remain unpersuaded.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The Myth of John Roberts vs. Donald Trump: This end of term, the Supreme Court is focused on its own power, not the president; That may be a mistake.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Losing Trust in Justice Dept., Judges Call Out Its Lawyers’ Behavior; The federal courts have long assumed that the government’s lawyers are trustworthy; Now judges across the country are criticizing their lack of candor”: Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.