“Judicial Notice (06.28.26): Home Stretch; Final opinions from SCOTUS, the last days of Cadwalader and Hogan Lovells (as separate firms), and a late-career move for a legend of the bankruptcy bar”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force; The Supreme Court is spending millions to beef up security; At what cost?” Josh Gerstein has this article online at Politico Magazine.

“Trump administration asks Supreme Court to OK its unprecedented immigration detention policy; The Justice Department asked the justices to resolve a division among federal appeals courts”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

You can access the cert. petition at this link.

“Florida Needs Haitian Workers. Congress Should Let Them Stay.” Mary Ellen Klas has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“With time running out, Trump digs in on changing midterm election rules; Fearing a Democratic takeover of Congress, the president has spent months trying to alter how the midterms will be conducted, but obstacles keep cropping up”: Patrick Marley and Ben Binday of The Washington Post have this report.

“The Pa. Attorney General’s Office seeks to intervene in a murder case that Philly prosecutors helped overturn last month; The attorney general’s actions Wednesday provided a first test case since the state Supreme Court issued a forceful ruling against DA Larry Krasner’s office last week”: Jillian Kramer, Ellie Rushing, and Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“White House Secretly Swayed Board Meant to Stop Civil Service Politicization; Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government”: Jonah E. Bromwich, Michael S. Schmidt, and Rebecca Davis O’Brien of The New York Times have this report.

“As Nerves Fray at Supreme Court, Some Pine for an Old Colleague With a Soft Touch; Justices miss retired colleague Stephen Breyer, who forged bonds across the ideological spectrum”: James Romoser of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Mechanical / Animal”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“The Court That Will Believe Absolutely Anything Is ‘Race-Neutral’; The majority gives Trump yet more license to discriminate”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Before marriage, there was the nearly 20-year fight over sodomy laws; In 2003, the Supreme Court overturned its 1986 decision upholding sodomy laws; Both cases have a lot to teach us in and about this moment”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

“The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights; The Supreme Court is not saying people don’t have certain rights, just that no courts can help them when those rights are violated”: Law professor Leah Litman has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Colorado Supreme Court Delay Threatens Democratic Redistricting Effort; Both parties are awaiting a decision on the validity of ballot proposals to redraw Colorado’s maps ahead of 2028; Democrats say each day without a ruling puts the proposals at risk”: Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times has this report.

“Alito and Kagan’s telling exchange about race and politics; Both sides of the debate in the court’s case on temporary protected status could have used a little more realism”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court just made millions more vulnerable, including the MAGA types who are cheering; ‘You don’t have to care about the human aspect of this to see it is an economic disaster,’ said the CEO of a health care organization”: Columnist Yvonne Abraham has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“Trump Is Turning Journalists Into Criminals”: Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Does Steel Co. Apply to the Interim Docket? Meditations On Part III-A of Mullin v. Doe.” William Baude has this interesting post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“Iowans react to U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking Roundup cancer lawsuits”: Katarina Sostaric of Iowa Public Radio has this report.

“What’s next for South Floridian Haitians with TPS after Supreme Court ruling?” Vera Lucia Pappaterra of The Miami Herald has this report.

“After Supreme Court Blow To Gun Restrictions, What’s Next For Hawai‘i? Some gun control advocates fear that the islands’ status as one of the safest states from firearm crime could be at risk.” Madeleine Valera of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.

“Alito’s testy reaction to Sotomayor underscores tensions at Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

“Supreme Court halts order to force reporter to reveal source or pay fine; Press freedom groups have decried efforts to compel former Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge to reveal a confidential source”: Scott Nover and Julian Mark of The Washington Post have this report.

You can view the stay order at this link.

“Supreme Court says Alito’s verbal reaction to Sotomayor was based on a ‘misunderstanding’”: John Fritze of CNN has this report.

And Nina Totenberg of NPR reports that “A day after Alito’s testy response to Sotomayor’s dissent, court says it was a ‘misunderstanding.’”

“The Supreme Court errs in this immigration ruling; The justices get it wrong on temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Hawaii Can’t Ban Guns by Default; The Supreme Court again vindicates the Second Amendment”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Years after GirlsDoPorn, survivors are finding ways to heal and fight back; Michael Pratt and his associates are in prison — but women targeted in his GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking operation say the exploitation never truly ended; Now, they’re pushing for reforms to prevent others from ever enduring the same fate”: Quinn Welsch of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Bayer’s Supreme Court Win in Roundup Case No ‘Silver Bullet’”: Jef Feeley and Sonja Wind of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Why Is the Supreme Court Unshackling the Presidency?” Law professor Kate Shaw has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Samuel Alito’s Jab at Hawaiian Culture Is Red Meat For Online Conservatives; The justice’s reference to the ‘spirit of Aloha’ betrays his contempt for the very idea of taking Hawaii’s history and legal traditions seriously”: Law professor Quinn Yeargain has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

Also online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Is a Pro-Gun Activist Group; In Wolford v. Lopez, the conservative justices have introduced a new Second Amendment test: Gun safety laws are probably illegal if Sam Alito thinks they would make gun owners feel upset.”

“The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak; No comment about ‘shithole countries’ is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

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

“Corner stores say ‘skill games’ are an essential part of their business. A court ruling threatens that. A recent state Supreme Court ruling may threaten a key piece of income for corner stores in Pennsylvania by taxing and regulating skill games. State lawmakers are searching for a solution.” Dana Munro, Gillian McGoldrick, and Michelle Myers of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“SCOTUS Greenlights Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policies”: You can access the new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Obergefell’s Second Decade; Progressives continue to bemoan the Roberts Court’s supposed ‘illegitimacy’; But a case they venerate remains the measuring stick for judicial hubris”: Josh Blackman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The Supreme Court Enables Trump’s Cruel Immigration Agenda; Two new rulings make it easier for the Administration to prevent migrants from claiming asylum and to expel lawful refugees”: Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The New Yorker.