“Automating oral argument: The first frontier.” Adam Unikowsky has this interesting post at his “Adam’s Legal Newsletter” Substack site.

Access online the 2025 MoloLamken Supreme Court Business Briefing: At this link.

“Nearly Half of America’s Murderers Get Away With It; Most crimes go unsolved, emboldening criminals and potentially leading to more violence”: German Lopez of The New York Times has this report.

“Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Sentenced to Life in Assassination Plot; Edward Kelley had been convicted of plotting to kill the law enforcement officers who had investigated his case”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

“The Supreme Court and Congress cede powers to Trump and the presidency; The high court has given the president immunity and protected him from nationwide injunctions; Congress is giving ground on spending and tariffs; It adds up to a turbocharged executive”: Naftali Bendavid of The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court terms face decreasing unanimity among justices, data shows”: Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times have this report.

“One of the Supreme Court’s sharpest critics sits on it; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a strong voice on an unusually fractious U.S. Supreme Court”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

“Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations; An administrative stay on Friday morning blocks the Trump administration’s efforts for now; A hearing is ongoing in D.C. this Fourth of July”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“Trump wants Alina Habba to stay as U.S. attorney in N.J. Sens. Andy Kim and Cory Booker say absolutely not. Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has prosecuted Democratic elected officials in New Jersey and Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim say she isn’t fit to keep the position.” Aliya Schneider of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show; In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

And at the “Lawfare” blog, Alan Z. Rozenshtein has a post titled “The Government’s Astonishing Constitutional Claims on TikTok; The Justice Department is advancing a radical theory of presidential power, nullifying Congress’s foreign affairs powers whenever the president finds them inconvenient.”

“Conservative Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick has a warning for America”: Taylor Seely of The Arizona Republic has an article that begins, “Clint Bolick is worried. The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked ‘deeply disturbing’ attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump administration officials.”

The Society for the Rule of Law has posted on YouTube a video titled “The State of the Rule of Law: Insights from Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick.”

“Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan; The court’s order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections”: Adam Liptak and Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times have this report on an order that the U.S. Supreme Court issued yesterday.

Divided three-judge Fifth Circuit panel affirms entry of preliminary injunction prohibiting Texas from enforcing S.B.4: You can access the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Paul Clement to Defend Maryland Judges From DOJ Lawsuit; Conservative attorney moved to enter case for judges; Lawsuit is over order blocking immediate deportations”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And in related coverage, Thomsen also reports that “Trump Appointee and Ex-Prosecutor to Hear DOJ’s Judges Lawsuit; Prosecuted cases over deadly Charlottesville rally; To hear lawsuit over Maryland federal court standing order.”

“SCOTUSBlog Founder Goldstein Renews Fight Against Tax Charges; Motions seek to dismiss some charges, further detail others; Government called previous round of motions meritless”: Tristan Navera of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can freely access many of the court filings in the case via this link.

“Votes Suggest Chief Justice Regains Control of ‘Roberts Court’; Roberts in the majority more often than any other justice; Chief Justice didn’t write any separate concurrences, dissents”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“An Authority To License Illegal Conduct; Bondi’s Logic for Ignoring the TikTok Ban”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“‘There’s Just Too Much Lawlessness’: Three Legal Experts on an Embattled Supreme Court.” The New York Times has posted online this written discussion among law professors Kate Shaw, William Baude, and Stephen I. Vladeck.

“Appellate court affirms conviction of Katie Magbanua in 2014 Dan Markel murder-for-hire”: Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

You can access today’s ruling of Florida’s First District Court of Appeal at this link.

“Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say; Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

“This Is the Real Impact of the Supreme Court’s Planned Parenthood Decision”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Wisconsin’s Abortion Settlement; A Badger State Supreme Court ruling sustains the state’s political compromise on the issue”: This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump nominates Maine litigator Joshua Dunlap for First Circuit court”: Nate Raymond and Christian Martinez of Reuters have this report.

And Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law reports that “President Trump Plans to Nominate Two Appellate Judges; Former DOJ attorney Eric Tung picked for Ninth Circuit; Commercial, appellate litigator Joshua Dunlap tapped for First Circuit.”

“The 2024-25 term brought notable wins for the court’s conservative majority — and the Trump administration”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

Also at “SCOTUSblog,” Erwin Chemerinsky has a post titled “By the numbers.”

“Nationwide injunctions should have been nullified long ago”: George Liebmann has this essay online at The Baltimore Sun.

“Trump urges Supreme Court to let him fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

You can access the federal government’s filing at this link.

“Appeals court backs Florida’s teacher pronoun law in challenge by transgender Hillsborough teacher”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“US Tells Court It Can’t Locate Man Wrongly Sent to El Salvador”: Robert Burnson of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, “The Trump administration told a federal appeals court it has been unable to locate a man wrongly deported to El Salvador a week after a three-judge panel ordered that he be returned to the US.”

“Trump Lawyer Habba Faces Home State Opposition for US Attorney”: Seth Stern and Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law have this report.

According to the article, “While Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim didn’t explicitly say they intend to block the nomination, homestate senators’ approval is needed for US attorney nominees to move forward under Senate custom.”

“The Supreme Court’s Majority Is Playing the Long Game; The session is being interpreted by many as giving President Trump more power; Chief Justice Roberts has a different strategy”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Amy Coney Barrett Is the Most Interesting Justice on the Court”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“Wisconsin Supreme Court invalidates the state’s strict 1849 abortion law”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

Kate Zernike of The New York Times reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban; After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republican prosecutors in Wisconsin said they intended to enforce the old law.”

And Patrick Marley and Praveena Somasundaram of The Washington Post report that “Wisconsin Supreme Court allows abortion to continue in state; The 4-3 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling blocks a 19th-century law that for a time effectively banned abortion in nearly all instances.”

You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin at this link. That court today also issued this order in the case captioned Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin v. Joel Urmanski.

“The Supreme Court has created an endless summer of work for itself”: Nina Totenberg recently had this audio segment on NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Trump Nominates Alina Habba as New Jersey’s Permanent U.S. Attorney; Ms. Habba, the president’s former spokeswoman and personal lawyer, has been serving in an interim capacity; She had no prosecutorial experience when she was appointed”: Santul Nerkar of The New York Times has this report.

And Zach Blackburn of New Jersey Globe reports that “Trump nominates Habba for full U.S. Attorney term; Currently embroiled in several high-profile cases, she’s unlikely to receive Democratic support.”

“‘A Culture of Disdain’: The Supreme Court’s Actions Speak Louder Than Its Words.” Law professor Kate Shaw has this guest essay online at The New York Times.