“The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights; The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated”: Law professor Leah Litman has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Colorado Supreme Court Delay Threatens Democratic Redistricting Effort; Both parties are awaiting a decision on the validity of ballot proposals to redraw Colorado’s maps ahead of 2028; Democrats say each day without a ruling puts the proposals at risk”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report.

“Alito and Kagan’s telling exchange about race and politics; Both sides of the debate in the court’s case on temporary protected status could have used a little more realism”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court just made millions more vulnerable, including the MAGA types who are cheering; ‘You don’t have to care about the human aspect of this to see it is an economic disaster,’ said the CEO of a health care organization”: Columnist Yvonne Abraham has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“Trump Is Turning Journalists Into Criminals”: Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Does Steel Co. Apply to the Interim Docket? Meditations On Part III-A of Mullin v. Doe.” William Baude has this interesting post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“Iowans react to U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking Roundup cancer lawsuits”: Katarina Sostaric of Iowa Public Radio has this report.

“What’s next for South Floridian Haitians with TPS after Supreme Court ruling?” Vera Lucia Pappaterra of The Miami Herald has this report.

“After Supreme Court Blow To Gun Restrictions, What’s Next For Hawai‘i? Some gun control advocates fear that the islands’ status as one of the safest states from firearm crime could be at risk.” Madeleine Valera of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.

“Alito’s testy reaction to Sotomayor underscores tensions at Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Supreme Court halts order to force reporter to reveal source or pay fine; Press freedom groups have decried efforts to compel former Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge to reveal a confidential source”: Scott Nover and Julian Mark of The Washington Post have this report.

You can view the stay order at this link.

“Supreme Court says Alito’s verbal reaction to Sotomayor was based on a ‘misunderstanding’”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

And Nina Totenberg of NPR reports that “A day after Alito’s testy response to Sotomayor’s dissent, court says it was a ‘misunderstanding.’”

“The Supreme Court errs in this immigration ruling; The justices get it wrong on temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Hawaii Can’t Ban Guns by Default; The Supreme Court again vindicates the Second Amendment”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Years after GirlsDoPorn, survivors are finding ways to heal and fight back; Michael Pratt and his associates are in prison — but women targeted in his GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking operation say the exploitation never truly ended; Now, they’re pushing for reforms to prevent others from ever enduring the same fate”: Quinn Welsch of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Bayer’s Supreme Court Win in Roundup Case No ‘Silver Bullet’”: Jef Feeley and Sonja Wind of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Why Is the Supreme Court Unshackling the Presidency?” Law professor Kate Shaw has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Samuel Alito’s Jab at Hawaiian Culture Is Red Meat For Online Conservatives; The justice’s reference to the ‘spirit of Aloha’ betrays his contempt for the very idea of taking Hawaii’s history and legal traditions seriously”: Law professor Quinn Yeargain has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

Also online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Is a Pro-Gun Activist Group; In Wolford v. Lopez, the conservative justices have introduced a new Second Amendment test: Gun safety laws are probably illegal if Sam Alito thinks they would make gun owners feel upset.”

“The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak; No comment about ‘shithole countries’ is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Alcoholic Originalism”: You can access the new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“Corner stores say ‘skill games’ are an essential part of their business. A court ruling threatens that. A recent state Supreme Court ruling may threaten a key piece of income for corner stores in Pennsylvania by taxing and regulating skill games. State lawmakers are searching for a solution.” Dana Munro, Gillian McGoldrick, and Michelle Myers of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“SCOTUS Greenlights Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policies”: You can access the new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Obergefell’s Second Decade; Progressives continue to bemoan the Roberts Court’s supposed ‘illegitimacy’; But a case they venerate remains the measuring stick for judicial hubris”: Josh Blackman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The Supreme Court Enables Trump’s Cruel Immigration Agenda; Two new rulings make it easier for the Administration to prevent migrants from claiming asylum and to expel lawful refugees”: Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Nursing homes, factory owners and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling; The high court’s decision to strip Haitians and Syrians of their protections from deportation had immediate ripple effects for immigrants and their employers”: Maria Sacchetti and Lauren Kaori Gurley of The Washington Post have this report.

“SCOTUS Ends Judicial Review of Temporary Protected Status”: You can access the new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Immigration Hard-Liners Repeatedly Lost in Court Before Justices Ruled in Their Favor; ‘This is a victory 10 years in the making,’ a White House official said after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could end deportation protections for some migrants”: Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times has this report.

“Todd Blanche ‘conceded’ violating law on Epstein files, judge finds; Court gives DOJ a week to remove redactions or justify them”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report.

You can access today’s decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia at this link.

“Supreme Court Overturns Hawaii Gun Law; The case involved a Second Amendment challenge to a Hawaii law that barred carrying concealed weapons without permission onto private property open to the public”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii limits on carrying guns in public; The decision is the latest by the conservative majority to loosen firearms restrictions in recent terms.”

And Lydia Wheeler of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii Law Restricting Guns on Private Property; The 6-3 decision is the latest to expand the Second Amendment right to bear arms.”

“Supreme Court Expands Trump’s Power Over Immigration; The court handed President Trump victories in his push to rescind deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people and turn away migrants at the southern border”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

Julian Mark, Justin Jouvenal, and Maria Sacchetti of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court hands Trump major victories on his immigration agenda; In two ideologically split rulings that could affect millions, justices say the administration can deport some migrants and turn others away at the border.”

James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Lets Trump End Humanitarian Protections for Many Immigrants; In pair of polarized decisions, court broadens president’s authority to conduct immigration crackdown.”

In commentary, Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Trump, Refugees and the Supreme Court; The Justices say ‘no judicial review’ in the law means what it says.”

Online at The New York Times, Elora Mukherjee has a guest essay titled “This Decision Is a Slap in the Face to Immigrants Who Followed the Law.”

And online at Bloomberg Opinion, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Just Betrayed Asylum Seekers.”

“Confirm Todd Blanche at Justice; He is well-qualified and will run the department as well as anyone could under President Trump”: William P. Barr will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Alleging Roundup Weedkiller Caused Cancer; The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court blocks thousands of suits claiming Roundup causes cancer; The ruling restricts one of the largest waves of product liability lawsuits in the history of the nation.”

Lydia Wheeler and Patrick Thomas of The Wall Street Journal report that “Bayer Wins Supreme Court Challenge Over Roundup Litigation; The 7-2 decision will help the company in its battle to resolve thousands of claims that the popular weedkiller caused cancer.”

And in commentary, Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “A Roundup Supreme Court Victory; A 7-2 majority stops a mass tort attempt to evade federal law on regulating a Monsanto pesticide.”

“Thomas’s Constitutional Firepower; The restoration of the Second Amendment began with a lone concurrence in 1997”: Columnist Kimberley A. Strassel will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Thursday was Sam Alito’s big decision day. Was it his last? Justice Alito had two decisions backing restrictive immigration policies and a ruling striking down a Hawaii concealed carry restriction. Is a retirement announcement coming next week?” Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“An unusual retort to a dissent from the bench”: Mark Walsh has this “View from the Court” post at “SCOTUSblog.”