“Appeals court appears skeptical of Trump’s attempt to shield presidential records; The Trump administration argues that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report.
And Mallory Culhane of Bloomberg Law reports that “DOJ Challenges Legality of Presidential Records Act on Appeal.”
You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.
“How Hegseth’s Plan to Livestream an Execution Sent the White House Scrambling; The livestream proposal triggered internal White House debate as well as public skepticism from Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson”: Lara Seligman, Alex Leary, and Philip Wegmann of The Wall Street Journal have this report.
“Academic Architect: A memorable summer job and influential mentors at home and at Harvard shaped the path of Dan Kelly, newly appointed dean of George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School.” Colleen Walsh of Harvard Law Today has this report.
“Two Michigan Supreme Court candidates aren’t eligible to serve. What if they win? Doug Tribou and Caoilinn Goss of Michigan Public Radio have this report.
You can elect judges who have a flat head: “Flathead Judges Amy Eddy and Dan Wilson Face Off in Montana Supreme Court Race; The Flathead County District Court judges in northwest Montana have outlined contrasting judicial philosophies over the court’s role in the nonpartisan race” reports Maggie Dresser of The Flathead Beacon.
“‘Be really open and receptive to new experiences’; Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar ’08 recounts her law career, Supreme Court interactions, and Harvard years”: Colleen Walsh of Harvard Law Today has this report.
“A Blockbuster-Era Law Won’t Save Your Privacy”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“A Texan-Led Movement to Tear Down the Church-State Wall Is Going National; Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions; Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide”: Robert Downen has this article in the November 2026 issue of Texas Monthly.
“Michigan’s U.S. Senate race will decide the Supreme Court’s future; Michigan’s U.S. Senate election could determine whether Donald Trump freely reshapes the federal judiciary, or hits limits on who reaches the bench”: Law professor Samuel R. Bagenstos and David B. Jaffe recently had this essay online at The Detroit Free Press.
“Samuel Alito Has Strong Feelings About Statues Honoring Long-Dead Genocide Perpetrators; All it takes for Alito to care about the denigration of the immigrant experience is the removal of an old Christopher Columbus statue from a city park”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.
“How Pete Hegseth’s Plan for a Reality-TV Execution Imploded; Trump is fine with a military execution by firing squad, just not with putting it on YouTube”: Missy Ryan and Vivian Salama have this article online at The Atlantic.
“Mapping Mississippi White: Bennie Thompson’s trailblazing career came after the success of the Voting Rights Act and could end with its fall.” Jeffrey Toobin has this article in the November 2026 issue of The New York Review of Books.
“Why Nathan Fielder’s ‘You Can See Everything’ Left Us Reeling”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Hard Fork” podcast from The New York Times on YouTube.
Relatedly, at his “Read Max” site, Max Read has a post titled “‘You Can See Everything’ is a secret history of the tech industry” (caution — contains spoilers with spoiler-warning).
And at the “cc: helmet girl” Substack site, Sam Bodrojan has a post titled “‘You Can See Everything’ Is A Film About Feminism; A spoiler-free review of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s hybrid portrait of Elizabeth Holmes.”
