“Texas’ GOP attorney general candidates want to challenge decades-old Supreme Court rulings; Emboldened by overturning Roe v. Wade, conservative legal groups hope Ken Paxton’s successor will help them overturn gay marriage and public school access for undocumented students”: Eleanor Klibanoff of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“220. Ideology and Shadow Docket Precedent: The en banc Fourth Circuit’s divide in the DOGE/Social Security case is the latest example of how assessments of the Supreme Court’s behavior on emergency applications are sorting us ideologically.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time; She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind; One year later, she has completely reshaped the Civil Rights Division”: Quinta Jurecic has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Judicial Notice (04.12.26): ‘I Love You, Sir’; A justice’s public criticism of a colleague, the acting AG’s bromance with Trump, two new circuit-court nominees, and another partner departure from Cravath.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Legislative history lives on — in secret”: Abbe R. Gluck has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Trade court wrestles with Trump’s replacement tariffs; A three-judge panel mulled the duties President Donald Trump imposed after the Supreme Court voided his Liberation Day tariffs”: Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico have this report.

“How Did Samuel Alito Become This Angry? A quiet, bookish justice’s personal leanings have become ever more overt.” Peter S. Canellos has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“As Election Looms, Washington Wonders if Trump Will Get a New Supreme Court Pick; Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is the subject of intense speculation about whether he will retire in the coming months and give President Trump a fourth nominee”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

“‘Judge Jeanine’ Is Learning It’s Hard to Be Trump’s Favorite Prosecutor; The president has praised her tenacity but taken note of her high-profile losses”: C. Ryan Barber and Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“For aging US Supreme Court justices, the politics of retirement looms large”: John Kruzel of Reuters has this report.

“Burned Before, Democrats Abruptly Revive the Idea of Impeaching Trump; Democrats in Congress have assiduously avoided talk of a third impeachment of President Trump, concerned that it would distract from their midterm campaign message; That tide seems to have turned”: Annie Karni of The New York Times has this report.

And the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast is titled “Time to Impeach Trump Again? Congressman Jamie Raskin says we need an urgent constitutional update to cope with an utterly out of control president.”

“Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office; In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, say people familiar with the remarks”: Josh Dawsey of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

And in commentary, online at The Washington Post, columnist George F. Will has an essay titled “An unpardonable abuse of presidential power with only one solution; The ‘power to grant reprieves and pardons’ has become another source of political brutishness.”

“When the Supreme Court Nearly Imposed Anarchy on Oklahoma; An errant 2020 decision deprived the Sooner State of authority to prosecute many serious crimes”: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Home Distilling Limits in Tax Code Struck Down by Appeals Court”: Laura D. Francis of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Trump nominates former Ohio solicitor general, Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer to US appeals courts”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

And Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg News reports that “Trump Picks One of Hush Money Case Lawyers for Appeals Court.”

“Appeals court says Trump White House ballroom construction can proceed for now”: Devan Cole of CNN has this report.

You can view today’s order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Fewer Steps, Same Sharp Voice from Justice Sotomayor on the Road”: Jordan Fischer and Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“Sotomayor Tries to Bury Firefighters’ Discrimination Claims; Ricci v. DeStefano, Part 2”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Appellate Judges Trade Barbs Over Supreme Court Emergency Docket”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report on an en banc decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil’s appeal, bringing activist one step closer to deportation”: Jake Offenhartz of The Associated Press has this report.

“Blanche’s Experience Makes Him More Dangerous Than Bondi”: Law professor Barbara McQuade has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

And at his “SHOULD YOU CARE?” Substack site, Matthew Wollin has a post titled “Pam Bondi fired as Attorney General. Should you care? sycophant swaps out for sycophant / a 9-0 decision with AI implications / capitulating firms slip even farther.”

“Trump administration can’t change President’s House panels for now, federal appeals court affirms; The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the federal government to maintain the status quo at the President’s House following the National Park Service release of new exhibit panels renderings”: Abraham Gutman and Fallon Roth of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

You can access yesterday’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

“The DOJ Keeps Making Corrections In Court, and Judges Want Answers; The Justice Department’s corrections come amid growing judicial mistrust and fallout from President Donald Trump’s reshaping of the agency to pursue his agenda”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Julie Vargas sworn in as new Supreme Court chief justice; Vargas served on state Court of Appeals before joining the high court”: Olivier Uyttebrouck of The Albuquerque Journal has this report.

“Supreme Court Secrecy Includes Reasons for Recusal; Justices often don’t disclose why they disqualify themselves from hearing cases; Their silence echoes the court’s unexplained emergency orders”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “The Docket” newsletter online at The New York Times.

“U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor urges women to lead with passion”: Williesha Morris of Alabama Media Group has this report.

Aysha Bagchi of USA Today reports that “Sotomayor says she has civil relationship with ‘virtually all’ justices.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Sotomayor blames colleagues for slew of Supreme Court emergency appeals; ‘We’ve done it to ourselves,’ the justice said during an appearance Thursday.”

“Trump Taps Former Ohio Solicitor General for Sixth Circuit Seat”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Three ways the Supreme Court could upend the midterm elections; Multiple cases before the justices could remake rules on district boundaries, campaign finance and the eligibility of certain mail-in ballots”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this essay online at MS Now.

“Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights; The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis conducted for The Post shows”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

“How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations; Judges are ordering an unprecedented number of people deported after coming under significant pressure from the administration to do so or risk losing their jobs”: Nicholas Nehamas, Allison McCann, Steven Rich, Jazmine Ulloa, and Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times have this report.

“Sonia Sotomayor Profiles Brett Kavanaugh; The Justice says her colleague ‘probably doesn’t really know any person who works by the hour’”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Planned Parenthood takes Nevada abortion law to state Supreme Court; The reproductive health care service argues that a reinstated 1985 law restricting minors’ access to abortion is vague and unconstitutional”: Alan Riquelmy of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Blanche Fills DOJ Leadership Position in First Post-Bondi Move”: Ben Penn of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Another Court Rules Copyright Can’t Stop People From Reading and Speaking the Law”: At the “Deeplinks” blog of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mitch Stoltz has this post about a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued Tuesday.

“Brett Kavanaugh’s Colleagues Are Getting Awfully Tired of Brett Kavanaugh; Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comments about the Supreme Court’s recent racial profiling case are just more evidence that Kavanaugh’s colleagues kind of hate his guts”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.