“Trump Finds New Legal Obstacles From His Own Judicial Appointees; Trump appointees hand down rulings against administration; Judicial picks likely to face questions about executive power”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man; The U.S. senator from Maryland tried to visit Abrego García in El Salvador”: Theodoric Meyer of The Washington Post has this report.

And Robert Jimison of The New York Times reports that “Maryland Senator Unable to Secure Meeting With Deported Immigrant in El Salvador; Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, said he had not yet been allowed to see Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and imprisoned.”

“El Salvador’s Bukele Plans to Double the Size of Giant Prison Holding U.S. Deportees; World’s largest prison already holds hundreds of alleged gang members from the U.S.” Vera Bergengruen and Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Elections Officials Narrow Jefferson Griffin’s Path to Victory; The State Board of Elections said a key part of the state Supreme Court’s ruling last week will only apply to Guilford County; The Republican has appealed, but if the decision stands, he probably won’t have enough votes to win”: Jeffrey Billman of The Assembly has this report.

And Kyle Ingram of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has an article headlined “Which voters must ‘cure’ ballots in NC Supreme Court race? We now have an answer.”

“Bassett to retire from NH Supreme Court, opening a seat for Ayotte to fill”: Todd Bookman of New Hampshire Public Radio has this report.

“Gov. Kevin Stitt wants sole power to appoint Oklahoma Supreme Court justices”: Alexia Aston of The Oklahoman has this report.

“How the Supreme Court Misunderstands Donald Trump: A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s ‘passive-aggressive approach’ to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.” Isaac Chotiner has this “Q. & A.” with law professor Steve Vladeck online at The New Yorker.

“Trump again makes John Roberts and the court look weak”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“How a Supreme Court Ruling Could Weaken Fed Independence, Shake Markets; Justices are revisiting ‘Humphrey’s Executor,’ a decision barring presidents from firing certain federal officials for purely political reasons”: Columnist Greg Ip will have this essay in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “A major Trump power grab just reached the Supreme Court; The Court is likely to give Trump broad, unchecked authority over the federal workforce.”

“Facing Confirmation Fight, Trump-Allied Prosecutor Hires ‘Smashmouth Politician’; Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington criticized for using his office to target President Trump’s critics, has enlisted the longtime Trump ally Michael R. Caputo as an adviser”: Kenneth P. Vogel of The New York Times has this report.

“Elon Musk focuses donations on GOP lawmakers targeting judges; The off-year spending pattern reflects the billionaire’s own increasing criticism of judges who rule against the Trump administration”: Clara Ence Morse and Trisha Thadani of The Washington Post have this report.

“Vaxxed and Relaxed”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“Judge finds ‘probable cause’ the Trump admin is in contempt over March 15 flights; In Chief Judge James Boasberg’s opinion in the Alien Enemies Act case, his next steps include possible prosecution of Trump officials by a court-appointed attorney”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“‘Fight With Everything You Have’: David Oscar Markus; A celebrated criminal-defense lawyer takes us behind the scenes of his latest big win, shares trial tips, and describes his approach to dealing with the media.” You can access today’s new episode of David Lat’s “Original Jurisdiction” podcast, in which both I and this blog are mentioned, via this link.

“Rights groups celebrate Supreme Court ruling on trans women; Activists and campaigners welcome the judgment that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex”: Sanchez Manning of The Times of London has this report.

Daniel Sanderson and Geraldine Scott of The Times of London have a news analysis headlined “What does the Supreme Court ruling on trans people mean in practice? Wednesday’s judgment on sex and gender is likely to have implications for women, trans people, politics and organisations ranging from the NHS to the police.”

Lizzie Dearden of The New York Times reports that “U.K. Top Court Says Trans Women Are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act; Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that the word “woman” refers to biological sex under the country’s anti-discrimination law, in a blow to trans rights activists.”

Annabelle Timsit of The Washington Post reports that “U.K. Supreme Court defines ‘woman’ by biology under equality law; The ruling was a blow to trans rights advocates and cheered by For Women Scotland, which filed the case; The government said it ‘brings clarity and confidence.’”

And Gareth Vipers of The Wall Street Journal reports that “U.K. Supreme Court Rules Trans Women Can’t Be Defined as Women; Decision follows a yearslong legal battle over protections for women and female-only spaces.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom at this link. The court also issued this press summary of the decision.

“Maryland Senator Arrives in El Salvador to Check on Man Deported From His State; Senator Chris Van Hollen said he would press for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was mistakenly deported by the Trump administration and imprisoned”: Robert Jimison of The New York Times has this report.

Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing of Politico reports that “Van Hollen travels to El Salvador as Trump officials ramp up defense of illegal deportation; Vice President JD Vance and other senior administration officials have defended the Trump administration’s actions amid an escalating legal battle.”

Annie Correal of The New York Times has a news analysis headlined “El Salvador’s Hard-Line Leader Is Linchpin in Trump’s Deportation Plans; Experts say President Nayib Bukele has the power but not the interest to return a man deported from Maryland to El Salvador in error.”

And in commentary, online at The New York Times, columnist Jamelle Bouie has an essay titled “America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny.”

“No, the President Cannot Issue Bills of Attainder”: Harold Hongju Koh, Fred Halbhuber, and Inbar Pe’er recently had this post at the “Just Security” blog.

“Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings for Trump administration; Federal judge will weigh whether the administration defied his order not to remove Venezuelan migrants from the country based on the wartime Alien Enemies Act”: Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu, and Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post have this report.

And Hassan Ali Kanu, Erica Orden, and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Boasberg finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt over deportation flights; U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found that the government last month rushed to fly two planes carrying hundreds of passengers to the Salvadoran prison in the hours after the judge barred the government from doing so.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia at this link.

Update: In other coverage, Mariah Timms and Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal report that “Judge Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Administration in Criminal Contempt; Court order says Trump officials willfully defied court order.”

“Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times; Nominee Ed Martin did not initially disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate; The State Department has said the networks act like arms of Russian intelligence”: Spencer S. Hsu and Aaron Schaffer of The Washington Post have this report.

“Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his allies.” Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Ben Protess, and William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times have this report.

“Abortions hold steady but fewer cross state lines for procedure, study finds; The decrease in interstate travel for abortions comes as telehealth providers, which can mail abortion pills to patients, rise in prominence”: Tobi Raji of The Washington Post has this report.

“Former top government lawyers are jumping into the Big Law fight against Trump; Some of the nation’s former solicitors general are working to defend law firms targeted by the Trump administration”: Daniel Barnes of Politico has this report.

“Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump: Universities are accustomed to acquiescing to the government, but Trump made Harvard an offer it couldn’t not refuse.” Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

And Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Donald Trump Tries to Run Harvard; Many of his demands on the school exceed his power under the Constitution.”

“Justice Department must provide details of attempts to return illegally deported man, judge says; The order that will require records and sworn answers from Trump administration officials furthers a legal standoff in the case of Kilmar Abrego García”: Steve Thompson and Katie Mettler of The Washington Post have this report.

Jacob Gershman, C. Ryan Barber, and Victoria Albert of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump and Judiciary in Escalating Standoff Over Wrongfully Deported Migrant; Judge demands more answers from government about what it has done to facilitate migrant’s return.”

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration’s refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man.”

And in commentary, Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Trump, Abrego Garcia and the Courts; The President may win this showdown, but by taunting the Supreme Court he is tempting fate later on cases of far greater consequence.”

“Justice Dept. restricts employees’ social media posts; The policy comes as some of the department’s top Trump-appointed leaders post openly partisan content or messages deriding defendants on their social media accounts”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post has this report.

“Palin Libel Retrial Against The New York Times Begins; In opening statements, lawyers for Sarah Palin and The Times each presented arguments on whether the editorial board had published a statement knowing it was false”: Katie Robertson of The New York Times has this report.

And Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service reports that “Retrial of Sarah Palin’s defamation case against NY Times kicks off; The onetime ‘maverick’ vice presidential candidate returned to Manhattan federal court to retry her libel claims, which have been thrice rejected under First Amendment protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”

“This Isn’t the First Time Trump Has Mistakenly Deported Someone; President Trump says he is powerless to retrieve a Salvadoran man who was deported because of an administrative error; But he has done so before”: Hamed Aleaziz of The New York Times has this report.

“When the Fight for Democracy Is Personal: Allison Riggs discusses the protracted legal battle for her seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and what it means for the entire country.” David A. Graham has this article online at The Atlantic.

“US judge to question Trump officials’ refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia”: Michael Kunzelman and Ben Finley of The Associated Press have this report.

And Nicholas Riccardi of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Trump says he wants to imprison US citizens in El Salvador. That’s likely illegal.”

“Meet the Conservative Lawyer Helping Harvard Take On Trump”: David Voreacos of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Pizzas Sent to Judges’ Homes in Name of Judge’s Murdered Son; Hundreds of pizzas sent to judges amid threats; Salas’ son was murdered in 2020 at their home”: Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law has this report.

And MSNBC has posted online a video titled “NJ Judge: My murdered son’s name was on pizzas sent to intimidate other judges.”

“The Next TikTok Shutdown Is Likely to Be Longer; The trade war with China is compounding an impasse that shows few signs of being resolved by the June deadline”: Dave Lee has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Trump Tests the True Limits of Presidential Power”: Jeffrey Blehar has this essay online at National Review.

“‘Alien Enemies’ or Innocent Men? Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants: The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang; But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.” Julie Turkewitz, Jazmine Ulloa, Isayen Herrera, Hamed Aleaziz, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times have this report.

“Lawyers say El Salvador blocks access to detained Venezuelans”: Nelson Renteria and Sarah Kinosian of Reuters have this report.