“The Kidney Stones that Made John Marshall Chief Justice . . . and other serendipities”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk; Samuel Tunick, who faces a felony charge for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives ‘creepy’”: Adeel Hassan of The New York Times has this report.

“Trump Administration Attacks Bar Association’s Power to Accredit Law Schools; Move escalates feud with nation’s premier legal organization”: Douglas Belkin and Erin Mulvaney of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Appeals court affirms Sarcone is unlawfully serving as top federal prosecutor in Upstate NY”: Jon Moss and Anne Hayes of The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York have this report.

Emily Goodin of The New York Post reports that “Trump admin dealt major blow in crusade against Letitia James after top NY prosecutor determined unlawfully appointed.”

Kara Scannell of CNN reports that “Trump US attorney pick can no longer investigate one of the president’s top foes, court rules.”

And Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service reports that “Second Circuit kills appointment of Trump loyalist as top New York prosecutor; Trump’s pick for the top federal prosecutor overseeing the Northern District of New York was found to have sidestepped Senate appointment procedure and was barred from investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James.”

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

“Judge Bibas on Opinion Writing: Skip the ‘$5 Words,’ Read More Fiction”: Avalon Zoppo of Law.com has this report.

“‘Not the mastermind’: Donna Adelson appeals conviction in Markel death; She ‘was not the mastermind’ behind the murder-for-hire, a new brief says.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Bonus 244: Minnesota v. Abbott; Governor Abbott is refusing to comply with a demand to extradite an ICE officer under criminal indictment in Minnesota; He has no viable legal argument, but may instead be trying to run out the clock.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Let’s Pretend We’re Justices | Interview: Chris Scalia”: You can access the new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.