“Religious Freedom for All on Trial as Abortion Ban Case Begins”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Indiana’s top court is about to become the first in the nation to decide whether there’s a religious right to abortion.”

“Fifth Circuit questions Louisiana’s renewed attempt to block abortion pill mailing; Louisiana’s effort to reverse the FDA’s decision to allow remote dispensing of abortion pills could have significant implications for abortion access nationwide”: Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Sandhya Raman of Bloomberg Law reports that “Abortion Drug Access Weighed in Louisiana Suit Versus FDA.”

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“DOJ asks US Supreme Court to allow Trump ally to remain Nevada’s top federal prosecutor”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

You can access the cert. petition at this link.

“DC Circuit rules IRS data sharing plan with ICE unlawful; A federal judge previously determined the tax agency broke the law over 40,000 times by turning over immigrants’ addresses even when ICE submitted requests with random numbers as the ZIP code”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access yesterday’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“It’s up to Chief Justice Roberts to preserve the Smithsonian’s independence; The chief justice heads the institution’s Board of Regents, which will choose retiring secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III’s successor”: Columnist Philip Kennicott has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Eleventh-Hour Executive Branch Interventions in the Midterms; There will likely be more, and the Supreme Court faces critical choices”: Bob Bauer has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“SCOTUS Rewrites the Rules for One Special Boy; The Supreme Court’s hoping you won’t clock its newest way of giving Trump what he wants”: You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“248. The Justices’ Papers: Leaving to the whims of individual justices the fate of their internal papers is a recipe for inconsistency and obscurity for records with significant historical value.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“State prosecutors say DA Larry Krasner’s office should be kicked off a contentious federal court case. Krasner disagrees. State prosecutors said Philly’s district attorney had acted to protect his own interest. The DA disagreed.” Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.