“Don’t Condemn Lawyers Because You Don’t Like Their Clients; Law firm Perkins Coie looks likely to win at least part of its suit against President Trump but there’s a larger principle at stake”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda”: Carrie Johnson has this audio segment on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“A Conservative Lawyer Was Asked to Fix the Eric Adams Mess. Instead, He Made It Worse.” Law professor Bennett Capers has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Reaches the Supreme Court; Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide pauses on the policy”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

Ann E. Marimow and David Nakamura of The Washington Post report that “Trump asks Supreme Court to allow birthright citizenship ban in some states; Lower-court judges have blocked Trump’s initiative nationwide, saying it violates the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Makes Emergency Plea to Supreme Court on Birthright Citizenship; High court is asked to limit nationwide injunctions that blocked president’s bid to restrict who is entitled to citizenship.”

Maureen Groppe of USA Today reports that “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let birthright citizenship changes proceed.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges’ power to block policies nationwide; The emergency appeal comes in the battle over birthright citizenship — but it could have ripple effects in cases challenging many aspects of Trump’s agenda.”

And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Trump pulls Supreme Court into birthright citizenship brawl; President Donald Trump wants the justices to enforce his unilateral effort to end birthright citizenship while lower courts review the constitutionality of the executive order.”

You can access the Acting Solicitor General’s filings here, here, and here.

“Supreme Court gets ready to decide if abortion providers can be denied Medicaid dollars”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Sister of US Supreme Court justice receives pipe bomb threat at Charleston residence”: Alan Hovorka and Caitlin Bell of The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina have this report.

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was target of bomb threat at home.”

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Sister of US Supreme Court’s Barrett target of bomb threat, police say.”

And Megan Forrester of ABC News has a report headlined “Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sister receives bomb threat: Police; The email said a bomb had been placed in Amanda Coney Williams’ mailbox.”

“New Justice Megan Shanahan says Ohio Supreme Court is ‘where laws meet lives’”: Kevin Grasha of The Cincinnati Enquirer has this report.

“Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice harassed court staff, per human resources report; Report led court administrator in January to inform Chief Justice Baker she was no longer allowed near certain offices”: Tess Vrbin of Arkansas Advocate has this report.

“Who Is Elon Musk Helping Now? A Judicial Candidate Who’s a Big Trump Fan. Brad Schimel, a judge who is so supportive of the president that he dressed up as him for Halloween, is hoping to flip the Wisconsin Supreme Court for conservatives.” Reid J. Epstein and Steve Eder of The New York Times have this report.

“Cavanagh selected as Michigan Supreme Court’s next chief justice”: Kyle Davidson of Michigan Advance has this report.

“Idaho will be only state with firing squad as main execution method, after governor signs bill; Idaho’s firing squad method will be ‘mechanized,’ Rep. Bruce Skaug says; Idaho Department of Correction won’t confirm plans”: Kyle Pfannenstiel of Idaho Capital Sun has this report.

“Donald Trump Is Tearing Up The First Amendment; The president is waging an across-the-board war against the First Amendment and its legal interpretations from the mid-20th century to today”: Paul Blumenthal of HuffPost has this report.

“Conservatives Single Out Judges Over DEI Courtroom Policies; Groups, litigants targeting judges’ pronoun, oral argument policies; Ethics complaints, recusal motions top strategy”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Trump takes his plan to end birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court; The administration wants the court to limit the scope of lower court rulings against his executive order that would end automatic birthright citizenship”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.

“Senators clash in Judiciary Committee over DOJ solicitor general, civil rights nominees; Democrats have long said President Donald Trump’s picks for key Justice Department positions represent an effort to fill the federal law enforcement agency with loyalists who place their allegiance to the president above the rule of law”: Benjamin S. Weiss of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Court rules against Florida parents in school gender case that gained national attention”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on a 169-page decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.

In addition to the majority opinion, Circuit Judges Robin S. Rosenbaum and Kevin C. Newsom wrote opinions (here and here, respectively) regarding substantive due process, and Senior Circuit Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat issued a dissenting opinion.

In earlier related coverage, Grace Abels of PolitiFact reported that “President Trump’s January Littlejohn story about ‘secret’ gender transition needs context.”

And online at Reason, Elizabeth Nolan Brown had a post titled “Trump’s Trans Kid Story Doesn’t Add Up; The president said a Florida school ‘secretly socially transitioned’ a 13-year-old; Emails suggest otherwise.”

“Testy moments, abortion and billionaires. Takeaways from the Wisconsin Supreme Court debate.” Alison Dirr and Daniel Bice of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report.

“New Jersey Supreme Court upholds judge’s removal for improperly touching clerk”: Dana DiFilippo of New Jersey Monitor has this report on a unanimous decision that the Supreme Court of New Jersey issued Monday.

“Judge says Trump penalties on law firm send ‘chills down my spine’; The Trump administration was ordered to halt, at least temporarily, parts of its executive order punishing the law firm Perkins Coie”: Perry Stein of The Washington Post has this report.

Jan Wolfe and Erin Mulvaney of The Wall Street Journal report that “Judge Halts Trump Order Targeting Law Firm Perkins Coie; Administration improperly targeted the firm based on its clients’ political positions, court says.”

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Judge blocks key provisions of Trump’s bid to punish Democratic-linked law firm; The executive order, if allowed to take effect, would hamstring the firm’s ability to represent clients who have business with the federal government.”

And at his Substack site, Chris Geidner has a post titled “Federal judge blocks Trump order against law firm, calling it a ‘personal vendetta’; Judge Howell issued the temporary restraining order at the conclusion of a two-hour hearing over Trump’s executive order against Perkins Coie.”

“Family Guy on SCOTUS; Justice Kavanaugh visits a brewery and then switches places with Peter Griffin”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Trump, Perkins Coie and John Adams: The President breaks a bedrock legal principle by targeting the law firm for representing clients he doesn’t like.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“On qualified immunity, the Supreme Court commits an unqualified error; By declining to offer clarity, the justices let injustice persist”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Arkansas Supreme Court chief justice provides requested HR report in dispute with administrator”: Tess Vrbin of Arkansas Advocate has this report.

“Trump’s Revenge on Law Firms Seen as Undermining Justice System; The president’s use of government power to punish firms is seen by some legal experts as undercutting a basic tenet: the right to a strong legal defense.” Michael S. Schmidt of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“Supreme Court’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Case Revs Up Speech Debate; Court to look at whether therapy is speech versus conduct; Decision to resolve circuit split over bans’ constitutionality”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Columbia Student’s Deportation Arrest Should Scare All Americans; Even if pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil isn’t deported, his case will already have chilled free speech for everyone in the US”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Tesla Fights to Save Musk’s Record Pay Package in Legal Appeal”: Sabrina Willmer and Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News have this report.

“New Judicial Security Program Helps Over 2,000 Judges, Relatives; Personal information sought to be scrubbed from websites; New program created after judge’s son shot at home”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“US judiciary warns of threats amid ‘concerning’ calls to impeach judges”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Suzanne Monyak and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law report that “US Judges Speak Out Against Republican Impeachment Push; House GOP targets judges over rulings against Trump actions; Judge urges caution about public remarks on court decisions.”

“Goldstein Seeks Grand Jury Material Related to Obstruction Claim; Government says Goldstein had ‘no credible reason’ for offer; Goldstein says crypto offer was employee retention effort”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Update: You can access the emergency motion at this link.

“Curbing DEI Excesses by Limiting Free Speech Is Shortsighted”: David Lat has this new installment of his “Exclusive Jurisdiction” column online at Bloomberg Law.

“US federal judiciary undertakes review of its own DEI programs”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Judge Blocks Trump Order Targeting Perkins Coie, Clients; Order would put Perkins Coie clients’ federal contracts at risk; Firm says it has already lost business in less than a week”: Justin Henry and Roy Strom of Bloomberg News have this report.

And Mike Scarcella of Reuters reports that “US judge temporarily blocks Trump order targeting law firm Perkins Coie.”

Programming note: This morning, I will be presenting an appellate oral argument to a three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania hearing cases on-the-road at the Lackawanna County Courthouse in Scranton, Pennsylvania. As a result, additional posts will appear here later this afternoon.

“Amy Coney Barrett: The GOP’s Supreme Court lifeline turned Maga enemy No. 1; Justice has provoked ire from president’s supporters after voting to reject his freeze on foreign aid.” Kieran Kelly of The Telegraph (UK) has this report.