“Katie Magbanua deal? Prosecutor leaves door open in Dan Markel murder case.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Emil Bove Defended Trump in Court. Then Trump Made Him a Judge. President Trump is appointing his former personal lawyers to judgeships, part of a larger effort to put his stamp on the federal courts.” Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

“Reagan Appointee Knocks Full Fifth Circuit Review in Murder Case”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granting rehearing en banc, and the opinion of Circuit Judge Jerry E. Smith dissenting therefrom, at this link.

“A Conservative Court, but No Monolith; Republican-appointed justices aren’t consistently originalist and don’t vote in lockstep, unlike liberals”: Law professor Elizabeth Price Foley and Mark Pinkert will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Fifth Circuit Was Again Most Reversed by the US Supreme Court”: Jordan Fischer of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The Constitution Is Not a Suicide Pact; On Saving the Federal Reserve Board”: Cass Sunstein has this post at his Substack site.

“America’s Trumpiest Appeals Court Is About To Get a Little Trumpier; The Fifth Circuit is already the federal judiciary’s most aggressive incubator of MAGA legal activism; Kurt Engelhardt’s retirement has given President Donald Trump another opportunity to make it worse”: JP Collins has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“The Supremes Shut Down the Plaintiff’s Bar Crusade Against Monsanto’s Roundup; False jury verdicts are largely blocked by a long-overdue Supreme Court majority decision”: Richard Epstein has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“Why the Roberts Court Makes Easy Cases So Hard; If Earl Warren could pull off a 9–0 vote in Brown v. Board of Education, why can’t John Roberts?” Jesse Wegman has this post at his “Major Questions” Substack site.

“On Seeing Two Things At Once; Or, What to Make of Polarized SCOTUS Commentary”: Richard M Re has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“Surveying the Wreckage of This Supreme Court Term”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Congress should restrict birthright citizenship, House speaker says”: James Powel, Bart Jansen, and Joey Garrison of USA Today have this report.

“Humans, machines or nothing: Case will decide future of California court transcripts.” Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Smart Microwave”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“237. Last Week’s Other News: The Supreme Court handed down a number of headline-grabbing rulings last week; Today’s issue is devoted to some of the biggest things that happened *away from* those headlines.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.