“The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities; May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research”: Michael C. Bender of The New York Times has this report.

“Originalism Hulk”: You can access the new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“172. “Federalizing” D.C.: Like any federal enclave, the federal government has plenary power over the District of Columbia; But Congress has delegated most of that power to local officials; it would take new laws to undo that.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“How the GOP is Trying to Steal the 2026 Midterms”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Who Gets Left Out of Originalism? How and why an incomplete history of our country gets told in the courtroom.” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“Keep politics and money out of Kansas Supreme Court justice picks”: Carol Beier has this essay online at The Kansas City Star.

“‘The courts are helpless’: Inside the Trump administration’s steady erosion of judicial power.” Katelyn Polantz of CNN has this report.

“Michelle Obama and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Draw Crowds on Martha’s Vineyard; In Oak Bluffs, film premieres, book fairs and star-studded soirees attracted fans who came for the art and stayed for the community”: Yola Mzizi of The New York Times has this report.

“Judicial Notice (08.10.25): Biglaw Battles — And Bonuses; Milbank’s major move, decisions in discrimination cases, a 40-lawyer lateral hire — and beyond Biglaw, a cornucopia of court rulings from circuits across the country.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Appeals court rules Trump clamp-down on spending data defies Congress’ authority; An order issued Saturday evening by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel gives the administration until Friday to restore the data online”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report on an order that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

“The Case That Could Test The Lengths Of Trump’s Military Power; Get ready for three days of intense trial debate that could have huge implications for the future powers of any presidency”: Brandi Buchman of HuffPost has this report.

“In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails; The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“This Federal Judge Is the ‘Tip of the Spear’ of Trump-Era Conservatism; Judge James C. Ho has recast the role of jurist as a vociferous combatant in the culture wars; Could that be exactly what Trump is looking for?” Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

“Trump’s birthright citizenship order faces more bans than before Supreme Court ruling; Four lower courts have placed nationwide injunctions on the Trump administration from enforcing plans to deny automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors”: David Nakamura of The Washington Post has this report.

“Prosecutors add allegations against poker-playing Supreme Court lawyer Goldstein”: David Thomas of Reuters has this report.

You can access the superseding indictment at this link.

“Dan Markel murder: Donna Adelson trial locked in for Aug. 19 after final hearing.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Appeals Court Ends Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry of Trump Officials; The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s verbal order that they return to the United States”: Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

Mark Berman of The Washington Post reports that “Appeals court vacates Boasberg’s contempt finding against Trump administration; James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in D.C., had said probable cause existed to find the federal government in contempt.”

Dan Morrison of USA Today reports that “Trump officials spared contempt ruling over Venezuelan deportations; U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt order ‘raises troubling questions’ over foreign policy and criminal justice, Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote.”

And Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Appeals court tells Judge Boasberg to shut down contempt proceedings against Trump administration.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in which all three judges wrote separately, at this link.

“Law firm in L.A. homelessness case bills the city $1.8 million for two weeks’ work”: Andrew Khouri and David Zahniser of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Senate Heads for a ‘Nuclear’ Showdown on Trump Nominees; Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

“Start of indicted Supreme Court judge Hantz Marconi’s trial delayed”: Paul Feely of The New Hampshire Union Leader has this report.

Nancy West of InDepthNH reports that “NH Supreme Court Justice Hantz Marconi’s Hearing and Trial Postponed.”

And Todd Bookman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports that “Witnesses in trial of NH Supreme Court Justice could include big names in state politics and law.”

“Gov. Laura Kelly selects Leawood attorney to fill vacancy on Kansas Supreme Court; Democratic governor makes fourth appointment to the state’s highest court”: Tim Carpenter of Kansas Reflector has this report.

Matthew Kelly of The Kansas City Star reports that “Kansas’ new Supreme Court justice could be last appointed before polarizing vote.”

And Jack Harvel of The Topeka Capital-Journal has an article headlined “Who Gov. Laura Kelly chose in what may be her last pick for Kansas Supreme Court.”

“DOJ tells judge it will ask Supreme Court to quickly rule on constitutionality of Trump’s birthright citizenship order”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report.

“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops; A lower court had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like race or speaking Spanish”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift limits on ICE’s ‘roving patrols.’”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Sixth Circuit says Second Amendment doesn’t cover machine guns; An appellate panel in Cincinnati upheld a man’s conviction for owning a machine gun and limited the protections of the Second Amendment in the process”: Destiny DeVooght of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Mallory Culhane of Bloomberg Law reports that “Federal Machine Gun Ban is Constitutional, Sixth Circuit Says.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

“Record Party Gaps in Job Approval of Supreme Court, Congress; Supreme Court’s approval rating falls below 40% for the first time”: Jeffrey M. Jones and Sarah Hogenboom-Jones of Gallup have this report.

“This Is No Way to Run a Country”: Online at The New York Times, columnist David French has an essay that begins, “Have you ever written words that you thought might get you killed? Have you ever written words that you worry might get someone you love killed? That’s the reality that federal judges are facing across the nation.”

“American Bar Association Assails Conservative Fifth Circuit Nominee; Michael B. Wallace is victimized by scandalous abuses”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Bonus 171: Circuit Riding and the Antebellum Court; Having the justices spend much of the year out in the country was an important means by which Congress brought the nascent Supreme Court to the people — and, as importantly, the people to the Court.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack; The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states”: John Sakellariadis and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

“A Prosecutor Took on MS-13 and Violent Crime. Trump Fired Her Anyway. Desiree Grace was a casualty of the struggle between the White House and district judges over who would lead the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.” Jonah E. Bromwich of The New York Times has this report.

“Oklahoma Can Prohibit Trans Care Despite Parental Rights Fight”: Mary Anne Pazanowski and Maia Spoto of Bloomberg Law have this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued today.

“Secret Recording of Sotomayor in Switzerland Captures Liberal Justice Admitting ‘Mistake’ on Failure To Recuse for Multimillion-Dollar Book Deal; The court’s most senior liberal justice also muses on the prospects of a binding code of ethics and term limits”: A.R. Hoffman of The New York Sun has this report.

Yesterday, the organization Fix the Court posted online a news release titled “‘Virtually All of Us Are Committed’ to SCOTUS’s Ethics Code, Justice Sotomayor Tells Audience in Zurich; In a wide-ranging talk, the audio of which Fix the Court just unearthed, SCOTUS’s senior liberal said term limits could bring political balance to the bench — ‘a great value’ — and owned up to missing a recusal.”

You can access the audio recording via this link.

“Supreme Court, Justice Department push back on lower courts over emergency docket orders”: Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times have this report.

“NJ Prosecutor Fired to Make Way for Alina Habba Files Appeal”: Justin Wise and David Voreacos of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Federal Ban on Felons Possessing Guns Upheld by Fifth Circuit”: Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today.