“Cornyn wants Trump IRS settlement rewritten before voting for Blanche; The Texas Republican drew a red line ahead of a crucial Judiciary Committee vote Thursday”: Chris Marquette of Politico has this report.

“Trump Is Wrong About Nixing the Filibuster; The 60-vote rule helps the conservative party, and the SAVE America Act isn’t worth it”: This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“J&J to Pay $5.5 Billion to Settle Talc-Related Cancer Claims”: Jonathan Roeder, Madison Muller, and Robert Langreth of Bloomberg News have this report.

And Elias Schisgall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Johnson & Johnson Agrees to Pay Up to $5.5 Billion to Settle Talc Lawsuits; The agreement is conditioned on 95% of remaining claimants participating, the company said.”

“Buffalo Mass Shooter’s Racist Motives to Be Weighed by NY Jury”: Beth Wang of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

And Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service reports that “Second Circuit reinstates racial hatred factors in Buffalo shooter’s death penalty trial; The appellate ruling reverses a lower court’s dismissal of a trio of aggravating factors in the upcoming federal hate crimes trial of already-convicted mass shooter, Payton Gendron.”

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

“Comey Seeks Dismissal of Seashells Charges; The filing focused on the question of whether a photograph of seashells arranged to read ’86 47′ constituted a true threat under federal law”: Devlin Barrett of The New York Times has this report.

And Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News has an article headlined “Citing ‘common sense,’ James Comey’s team urges judge to toss seashells case; Attorneys for the former FBI director say the indictment secured by the Trump administration ‘targets and chills core political speech and fails as a matter of law.’”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Dude Process, Not Due Process”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Now I see the truth about the filibuster; The 60-vote Senate rule forces compromise; Democrats were wrong to attack it”: U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots; The appeal to the justices is part of a high-stakes push by President Donald Trump and his allies to put fresh limits on voting ahead of pivotal elections where control of the House and the Senate is at stake”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

John Fritze and Tierney Sneed of CNN report that “Trump asks Supreme Court to let him curtail mail voting.”

And Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News reports that “US Asks Supreme Court to Restore Trump Mail-In Voting Order.”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Neil Gorsuch | Full Episode 7.24.26”: Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS has posted this video on YouTube.

“A Stunning Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Opinion Was The Right Thing To Do; A sitting judge putting his own reputation and his court’s credibility on the line to publicly challenge the nation’s highest court is a big deal”: Alexander Silvert has this essay online at Honolulu Civil Beat.

“Justice Samuel Alito: The Man and the Movement That Shaped Him.” Amanpour and Company has posted this video on YouTube.

“Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status; A recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a humanitarian program that has allowed about one million immigrants to work legally in the U.S.” Miriam Jordan and Madeleine Ngo of The New York Times have this report.

“2026 Supreme Court Roundup”: The Federalist Society has posted this video on YouTube.

“Inside the fights to maintain TPS status for thousands after the Supreme Court sided with Trump”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report.

“Appeals Court Upholds Blocks on Trump Order Restricting Mail Voting; The ruling on Saturday was the latest rebuke to President Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting; The government says it may take the case to the Supreme Court”: Adam Sella of The New York Times has this report.

“Justices’ lucrative book deals deserve more scrutiny”: Gabe Roth has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Kim Davis accused of hiding inheritance to avoid paying gay couple $565K judgment”: Austin R. Ramsey of The Lexington Herald Leader has this report.

“Texas Business Court Judges Await Abbott’s Thumbs Up or Down”: Ryan Autullo of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Fighting Anti-Semitism from the Bench: Josh Blackman interviews Judge Roy K. Altman.” Civitas Outlook has posted this interview online.

“For the Children: When freedom was snatched away, Elizabeth Turner’s mother fought back, and changed the Constitution.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms?” Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns — Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect; The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying”: Mike Spies has this American Chronicles article in the August 3, 2026 issue of The New Yorker.

“240. The Rise and Fall of the Alien Tort Statute: It wasn’t the most important or visible ruling of the term, but the Court’s evisceration of the Alien Tort Statute struck a significant (and unpersuasive) blow against human rights accountability.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

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