“Alabama Fails in Supreme Court’s Newest Emergency Docket Test”: Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Bonus 232: The Term of the Summary Reversal; The Supreme Court has summarily reversed eight lower-court rulings so far this term — after just two last term and zero the term before; That uptick says a lot about how the justices sees their role.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Judge Offers New Apology for Her In-Chambers Affair and Other Misconduct; In a second apology letter, Judge Eleanor Ross said her actions were ‘patently wrong’; Some House Republicans want her impeached”: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times have this report.

“US appeals court judge pledges reforms after complaint that she created ‘culture of fear'”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law reports that “Second Circuit Judge Agrees to More Measures on Clerk Treatment.”

You can access the order of the Judicial Council of the Second Circuit at this link.

“Sam Bankman-Fried Loses Appeal of Conviction for FTX Fraud”: Bob Van Voris and Ava Benny-Morrison of Bloomberg News have this report.

And Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service reports that “Second Circuit denies Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to overturn FTX crypto fraud conviction; The convicted FTX founder has already filed an application for a presidential pardon, according to Department of Justice records.”

You can access today’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Can Transgender People Serve in the Military?” You can access the new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Judge Ross Lacked Any Remorse, and The Chief Judge of the Eleventh Circuit Gave Her One Too Many Chances To Correct The Record; The latest developments make Judge Ross’s situation, and the Eleventh Circuit’s response, even worse”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” along with a post titled “The Latest Chicanery in Judge Ross’s Case: Congress needs to revisit this entire regime.”

“The Senate Must Not Confirm Any More Trump Judges Who Are This Bad at Parking; A closer look at Judge Ryan Nelson’s deeply embarrassing bid to fight a stranger in a mostly empty parking lot”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s $1.8 billion payout fund; U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said the government has not provided ‘absolute certainty’ it won’t try to resurrect the fund in the future”: Katie Mettler and Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post have this report.

Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Judge extends block on Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’; Judge Leonie Brinkema said she’ll likely dismiss a lawsuit over the project if top officials formally kill it.”

Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News reports that “Judge Rejects DOJ Assurance ‘Weaponization’ Fund Is Defunct.”

And at his “All Rise News” Substack site, Adam Klasfeld has a post titled “Judge BLOCKS Trump’s $1.776 slush fund: Highlights from the hearing; It took U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema less than 30 minutes to gut Trump’s slush fund.”

Update: You can access the order at this link.