“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.

“Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

Access the contents of the Summer 2025 issue of The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process: Via this link.

“The state of America’s judiciary with Judge J. Michael Luttig”: You can access today’s broadcast of WBUR’s “On Point” via this link.

“U.S. Senator alleges two Trump-appointed judges are ‘stalling’ contempt proceedings”: Jan Wolfe of Reuters has this report.

“Music teacher who rejected transgender students’ chosen names can sue Indiana school”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

“Indiana Ban on Out-of-State Wine Deliveries Upheld on Appeal”: Megan Crepeau of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a per curiam decision, accompanied by two concurring opinions, that a two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued today.

“Kavanaugh was confirmed almost 7 years ago. The saga still haunts the Senate. The Senate’s contentious confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime judicial appointment shows how a painful moment in the chamber’s history still looms large.” Hailey Fuchs of Politico has this report.

“Samuel Alito will release new book next year, publisher says”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

“The Supreme Court Has Finally Found a President It Likes”: Columnist Thomas B. Edsall has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Federal judge issues injunction keeping Fayetteville schools from enforcing Ten Commandments law”: Daniel McFadin of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has this report.

You can access yesterday’s decision of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas at this link.

“Feds contest Maryland judges’ immunity in immigration case; The Justice Department argues no other court in the country has issued standing orders resembling Maryland’s injunctions”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Tribal Consumer Lender Fails to Get Sovereign Immunity on Appeal”: Alexis Waiss of Bloomberg News has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued yesterday.

“Iowa Supreme Court shows deep divides in first cases over new gun rights amendment”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report.

“New Firm Seeks to Confront Trump on Executive Power; The Washington Litigation Group is the latest nonprofit group to join the legal challenges against the president, with a strategy of focusing on appeals early in the case”: Eileen Sullivan of The New York Times has this report.

“Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice says spending in judicial races is ’cause for concern’”: Ariela Lopez of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

“Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders; Legal experts say such concern from the bench could have a more systemic effect, eroding the healthy functioning of the courts”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

“As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy; Spikes in the number and influence of briefs filed by historians have prompted questions about the role scholars should play in litigation”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.