“District Court, as Expected, Issues Preliminary Injunction in Trump/USPS Mail-In Ballot Case: Why This Should Be an Easy Case for the Supreme Court to Deny a Stay.” Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

“The Supreme Court refuses to stop Trump’s destruction; The justices dismissed aesthetic pain to protect the president’s ballroom”: Columnist Kathleen Parker has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Supreme Court Sides With Republicans in TV Ad Fight; Republican groups had asked the court to clear the way for political parties to pay the same low-cost ad rates as candidates, a move that could undercut a Democratic advantage in the midterms”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Julian Mark, Clara Ence Morse, and Matthew Choi of The Washington Post have an article headlined “In boost to GOP, Supreme Court says parties should get lower TV ad rates; The GOP has far more money than the Democrats heading into the midterms. Now the party can get a discounted ad rate when it coordinates spending with its candidates.”

And James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Sides With GOP in Spat Over Political Ad Pricing; Brief decision likely enhances spending power of political parties in the coming midterms.”

You can access today’s per curiam decision of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Judge weighs whether Reflecting Pool charge against Olympian should be out for good; Attorneys for David Hearn say they worry President Donald Trump, who has continued to blame vandals for the damage, could push prosecutors to resurrect the case”: Liam Bowman and Jasmine Golden of The Washington Post have this report.

“Democrats Really Want 13 Supreme Court Justices; Listen to why they voted against a plan to keep the High Court at nine”: This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump Gets New Sullivan & Cromwell Attorneys in NY Fraud Fight”: Ryan Tarinelli of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Free Speech, Deportation, and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus; Denying habeas review of detention for protected speech risks accomplishing in practice what the Constitution forbids without actual suspension”: Jonathan Hafetz has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Judge Orders US to Name Architects of Trump ‘Weaponization’ Fund”: Jimmy Jenkins of Bloomberg News has this report.

Alan Feuer of The New York Times reports that “Judge Orders Trump Officials to Divulge Names of Those Who Set Up $1.8 Billion Fund; The plan to create a fund that could have funneled taxpayer money to the president’s allies drew repeated scrutiny, including a rare rebuke from Senate Republicans.”

And Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post reports that “Judge orders DOJ to disclose who conceived of now-defunct payout fund; The Trump administration dropped plans for a fund to compensate people who say they were unfairly prosecuted, but several lawsuits are ongoing.”

“Trump’s Ballroom Is Illegal, Despised, and Anti-Democratic, but the Supreme Court Greenlit It Anyway. ‘Our buildings shape us,’ and this building will shape a failure of democracy.” Harry Litman has this post at his “Talking Feds Substack” site.

“How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court; In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks”: Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“Constitution Doesn’t Include Right to Clean Water, Court Rules”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can access today’s 10-to-5 en banc decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.