“The DOJ’s Failed Attempts To Meddle In The Midterms”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Justice Kagan Confronts a Broken Court”: Jesse Wegman has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Trump lawyers ask Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 California ballots”: David G. Savage and Kevin Rector of The Los Angeles Times have this report.

Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times reports that “Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Intervene in California Ballot Case; In an emergency application, administration lawyers asked the justices to immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.”

Patrick Marley and Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post report that “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 California ballots for now; The appeal came in a fast-moving legal dispute over midterm ballots that the Trump administration claims may have been cast by noncitizens in the state.”

And at his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has a post titled “Trump Administration Goes to Supreme Court in Emergency Hail Mary Petition to Try to Force California to Segregate Ballots from Alleged Noncitizens.”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“$7.3M Verdict Against Contractor Survives Statutory-Employer Immunity Challenge on Appeal; The appellate court denied attempts to shield the general contractor from liability via statutory-employer immunity under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act”: Riley Brennan of The Legal Intelligencer has this report.

Last Wednesday’s en banc decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania consisted of a majority opinion and an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

“New Maduro Judge, ‘Immune to Pressure,’ Dealt With Bannon, Jay-Z”: Mike Vilensky and Georgia Fearn of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Supreme Court to Consider Successive Habeas Claim in Capital Case, Twenty Years After the Murder; This week, the Court will consider when a death-row inmate may file a second habeas application based on ‘a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable’”: Paul Cassell has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Corruption on the Ballot: Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual mechanism for changing votes?” Ruth Marcus has this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the November 9, 2026 issue of The New Yorker.