“Republicans bring TV ad rate war to Supreme Court; The high court was asked to take emergency action in a partisan fight over campaign spending on TV ads set off by the justices’ own ruling”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Is SCOTUS Letting Trump Meddle in the Midterms?” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Trump Keeps Building His Ballroom Amid Supreme Court’s Silence”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

In the September 7, 2026 issue of The New Yorker: In The Talk of the Town section, Zach Helfand has an essay titled “All Rise! Coyote Court Is Now in Session; In the new film ‘Coyote vs. Acme,’ starring Will Forte, Wile E. Coyote demands justice from the company that keeps blowing him up; Here to weigh in is the personal-injury attorney Motorcycle Mike.”

And Daniel Immerwahr has a Books essay titled “Has the Supreme Court Sandbagged Democracy? A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government; It arrives at an awkward moment.”

“Becoming Justice Gorsuch | 3. A Lunch Room for Life.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“The day Larry Krasner’s office was put on trial — by his own prosecutors; Three lawyers who still work in the district attorney’s office testified about the sloppy handling of a bid to overturn a 2009 murder conviction — and accused their boss of a coverup”: Columnist Paul Davies has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“The Supreme Court’s realignment roundup: October Term 2025.” Richard Re has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“247. Should Purcell Apply to the Federal Government? The Supreme Court has never been asked to apply the ‘Purcell principle’ to a late-breaking injunction against a *federal* election-related rule. If the Court wants to be consistent, it shouldn’t.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“How Trump’s Policy Agenda Runs Through One Federal Court, in Texas; For years, conservative litigants flocked to Judge Reed O’Connor’s district; Now, North Texas has become a favorite destination of the Justice Department”: Zach Montague and Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times have this report.

“Judicial Notice (08.30.26): Paying The Piper; Meta’s $18 billion settlement, two losses for the Trump administration in First Amendment cases, and another move by a star of the SCOTUS bar.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.