“Hawaii Tries to Redefine ‘Corporation’; The legal gambit is an effort to claim that companies lack political speech rights. Other progressive states are watching”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Supreme Court Leaves Trump’s Fed, Citizenship Gambits for Last”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
“Judicial Notice (06.28.26): Home Stretch; Final opinions from SCOTUS, the last days of Cadwalader and Hogan Lovells (as separate firms), and a late-career move for a legend of the bankruptcy bar”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force; The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security; At what cost?” Josh Gerstein has this article online at Politico Magazine.
“Trump administration asks Supreme Court to OK its unprecedented immigration detention policy; The Justice Department asked the justices to resolve a division among federal appeals courts”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.
You can access the cert. petition at this link.
“Florida Needs Haitian Workers. Congress Should Let Them Stay.” Mary Ellen Klas has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“With time running out, Trump digs in on changing midterm election rules; Fearing a Democratic takeover of Congress, the president has spent months trying to alter how the midterms will be conducted, but obstacles keep cropping up”: Patrick Marley and Ben Binday of The Washington Post have this report.
“The Pa. Attorney General’s Office seeks to intervene in a murder case that Philly prosecutors helped overturn last month; The attorney general’s actions Wednesday provided a first test case since the state Supreme Court issued a forceful ruling against DA Larry Krasner’s office last week”: Jillian Kramer, Ellie Rushing, and Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.
“White House Secretly Swayed Board Meant to Stop Civil Service Politicization; Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government”: Jonah E. Bromwich, Michael S. Schmidt, and Rebecca Davis O’Brien of The New York Times have this report.
“As Nerves Fray at Supreme Court, Some Pine for an Old Colleague With a Soft Touch; Justices miss retired colleague Stephen Breyer, who forged bonds across the ideological spectrum”: James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Mechanical / Animal”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.