“Sullivan Revisited: The outcome of the famous libel case rests on fabricated legal foundations.” Glenn Reynolds has this book review post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“How Democrats can repair the broken Supreme Court”: U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Trump cheers Alito staying for another Supreme Court term: ‘One of the greatest of all time’; The 76-year-old conservative justice confirmed he will remain for another term, batting down retirement speculation.” Eric Mack of Fox News has this report.

“Trump refuses to back down as Supreme Court blocks major policies; The president is seeking ways around rulings on tariffs, birthright citizenship and the Fed; Experts say the moves don’t signal outright defiance, but they push the court’s limits”: Julian Mark of The Washington Post has this report.

“Samuel Alito Is Not Doing Himself Any Favors; The Supreme Court justice recently spoke out about a new biography of him; The biographer responds”: Ankush Khardori has this post at his “OPENfile” site.

“Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows; Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case”: Dharna Noor of The Guardian has this report.

“White House Asks Justice Department to Consider New Reflecting-Pool Prosecution; Officials asked the department whether it is possible to bring new charge against Olympic canoeist after U.S. attorney dropped case”: Alex Leary and Sadie Gurman of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Luigi Mangione’s N.Y. Trial Will Have an Anonymous Jury; The identities of the 12 jurors will be shielded from the public; Jury selection is set to start on Sept. 8”: Hurubie Meko, Kate Christobek, and Anusha Bayya of The New York Times have this report.

Kyle Schnitzer and Steven Vago of The New York Post report that “Luigi Mangione’s NYC trial rules revealed as court OKs 86 news orgs, anonymous jury — after concerns of ‘intimidation’ by sick fans.”

And Patricia Hurtado and David Voreacos of Bloomberg News report that “Mangione Trial Will Have Anonymous Jurors, More Media Access.”

“Trump’s former lawyers: Judge Emil Bove swears in Attorney General Todd Blanche at the White House.” Hannah Rabinowitz of CNN has this report.

“The Fifth Circuit’s Dangerous Obsession with DeRay Mckesson; The nation’s most conservative appeals court is ignoring decades of Supreme Court precedent to punish protest leaders for exercising their First Amendment rights”: G.S. Hans has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Why didn’t Justice Alito retire? This is Justice Alito’s moment — and he’s not going to let it pass him by.” Noah Feldman has this post at his Substack site.

“Trump Judicial Picks Squeezed by Looming Midterm, Senate Recess”: Olivia Alafriz of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The court should hold oral argument outside of the capital”: Josh Blackman has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“William Howard Taft by John G. Roberts, Jr.; Maintaining your dignity and principles through defeat can pave the road for future success”: The “In Pursuit” Substack site has this post.

“SCOTUS’s October Preview”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.