“Trump Wants to Kick ‘Rogue Activist Judges’ Off Cases. Can He? A Supreme Court decision and ethics opinions give judges room to speak their minds.” Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “On the Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“Appeals Court Denies DOJ Bid to Block 20,000 California Ballots”: Erik Larson of Bloomberg News has this report.

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

Update: In other coverage, Kevin Rector and Brittny Mejia of The Los Angeles Times report that “9th Circuit again denies Trump administration request to block 20,000 California ballots.”

And Zach Montague of The New York Times reports that “Appeals Court Again Rejects Trump Effort to Impound California Ballots; In a 2-to-1 vote, an appeals court panel declined to order the state to set aside more than 20,000 mail-in ballots, calling the notion plainly unconstitutional.”

“If Trump Gets Another Supreme Court Pick, MAGA Wants a Loyalist; For years, Supreme Court aspirants have avoided talking about how they might rule; Trump’s frustrations with his first-term picks could change that”: Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.