“The sad inevitability of Justice Alito’s birthright citizenship dissent”: Columnist Gustavo Arellano has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Los Angeles-area gas appliance ban upheld by US appeals court”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

You can access today’s decision of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Afroyim Has Got to Go!” Jeremy Christiansen has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.

“The Wrong Way to Win: Court-packing offers a shortcut that leads nowhere worth going.” Finn McCarthy and Grant Goral have this post at the “Checks & Balances” Substack site.

“Trump v. Barbara and the End of Originalism”: Jeremy Christiansen has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.

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

“Trump wins court reprieve from restoring slavery, climate park exhibits”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

You can access today’s order of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.

Update: In other coverage, Maxine Joselow of The New York Times reports that “Court Lets National Parks Keep Removing Signs on Slavery, Climate; The decision was a win for the Trump administration as it pushes to remove material that the president has called inappropriate or ‘woke.’”

“Let Folarin Balogun Play! Calling America’s Other National Team: Lawyers; There’s no chance of appeal to get the USMNT’s suspended star back on the pitch versus Belgium; Or is there?” Columnist Jason Gay has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Why Have Liberals Abandoned a Moral Reading of the Constitution? From slavery to abortion, conservatives and liberals alike have reached for ‘natural law’ to resolve many of the country’s most important cases; But, in recent years, the balance has shifted.” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“The Powerful, Resilient, Independent Supreme Court; The vindication of its authority is remarkable”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“The Birthright Citizenship Decision Will Not End the Birthright Citizenship Debate; The Chief Justice sought to settle the birthright citizenship debate for the body politic; He likely failed”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“Behind the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Transgender Athletes; The decision, unanimous on Title IX but split 6–3 on equal protection, upheld bans in twenty-seven states on transgender female athletes playing on girls’ and women’s teams”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Cooking Up A Mess: Judicial Review of Presidential Action after Trump v. Cook.” Adrian Vermeule has this post at “The New Digest” Substack site.

“Don’t Let the Supreme Court’s Big Decision Fool You. Trump Is Still a Threat to Mail Ballots.” Shirin Ali has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The GOP’s dirty little secret about the SAVE America Act; The president is demanding the inclusion of mail-voting restrictions that are highly unpopular among some Republicans”: Meredith Lee Hill of Politico has this report.

“Bayer Separation of Glyphosate Seen as Bid to Cap Legal Risk”: Sonja Wind of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Nina Totenberg’s False Report on Alito’s Retirement”: Michael A. Fragoso has this post at the “Bench Memos” blog of National Review.

“Takeaways from a divisive Supreme Court term that expanded Trump’s power”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

“It Is Time To Revisit Kennedy v. Louisiana; Even if there was an actual ‘national consensus’ against capital punishment for child rape in 2008, the facts are different today”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Bonus 236: A Term of Self-Inflicted Wounds; The Supreme Court has had numerous opportunities during the October 2025 Term to act (and appear to be acting) *above* politics; The real theme of the term may be how many of those it squandered.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“SCOTUS Plate Tectonics: Trump won the term; His three defeats are the seismograph — a reading of how far the Court’s ground has already shifted.” Erwin Chemerinsky and James Sample have this post at the “Who Decides Who Decides?” Substack site.

“Trump’s Firing Power Ripples Through US Agencies After Court Win”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.

“4 Takeaways From The Birthright Citizenship Decision; The outcome of Trump v. Barbara was not a surprise—but what happens next is uncertain”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The weed killer America can’t afford to lose; A 7-2 Supreme Court decision protects Bayer from costly litigation over Roundup; Thank goodness”: Zachary Karabell has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“How the Tide Turned Against Transgender Athletes — and the Movement; Loss at Supreme Court this week leaves activists playing defense — even in blue states”: Louise Radnofsky of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Roberts Gets the 14th Amendment Wrong; In the 1860s, citizenship was not only extended but defined more narrowly than the chief justice acknowledges”: Law professor Richard A. Epstein has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Breyer Details Retirement Calculus for Leaving Supreme Court”: Matthew S. Schwartz of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Trump May Ask Supreme Court to Rethink Carroll Appeal Denial”: Erik Larson of Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Supreme Court Can’t Save Digital Privacy”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“The Role of Originalism in Trump v. Barbara”: Lawrence Solum has this post at his “Legal Theory Blog.”

“Justice Stephen Breyer on Trump, the Rule of Law, and Whether the Supreme Court is Political”: Bloomberg Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“A Clarence Thomas Protégé Defied a Landmark Supreme Court Ruling. His Mentor Would Be Proud.” Austin Sarat has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“This Supreme Court ruling would make the Constitution’s framers wince; The justices diminished Congress with a decision on presidential firing power”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“With Fed independence on the line, Supreme Court left no room for questions; The high court’s unusual decision to release rulings on two separate appeals simultaneously created little doubt about the limits on partisan influence of the Federal Reserve”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Despite some big losses, Supreme Court rewards Trump’s assertion of power”: Andrew Chung and John Kruzel of Reuters have this report.