“Extended interview: Justice Amy Coney Barrett.” CBS News has posted this video on YouTube.

“Harvard’s Mixed Victory; A resounding win for the university in court still leaves the Trump Administration with plenty of ways to force schools into submission”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this essay online at The New Yorker.

“It Doesn’t Seem Wise to Let Trump Decide What War Is”: Columnist David French has this essay online at The New York Times.

“How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week? From tariffs and immigration to the National Guard, federal judges are rejecting Trump’s ridiculous cover stories.” Susan B. Glasser has this essay online at The New Yorker.

And online at The New Republic, Timothy Noah has an essay titled “Trump Is Our True National Emergency; When the president claims everything is a national emergency, so that he can do whatever he wants, the courts need to regard that as the real emergency.”

“Trump Has Ignited a Civil War Between the Federal Courts; The Supreme Court’s burgeoning conflict with the lower courts is rooted in whether the courts should show fealty to law and legal precedent or to an authoritarian president”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Texas’ New Abortion Bounty Law Has a Fatal Flaw”: Law professor Mary Ziegler has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Louisiana AG to challenge Supreme Court ruling against under-18 executions”: Greg LaRose of Louisiana Illuminator has this report.

“How To Fix Our Broken Constitution: Historian Jill Lepore explains how the power to change the law through constitutional amendments was always intended to keep Americans from killing each other.” You can access today’s episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.

“U.S. Importers Eye Refund Options as Tariff Fight Goes to Supreme Court; Uncertainty over the fate of President Trump’s duties spurs firms to see whether they could claw back billions of dollars”: Paul Berger of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

In commentary, online at The Atlantic, Paul Rosenzweig has an essay titled “The Biggest Test for the Supreme Court Yet: It is no exaggeration to say that the future of checks and balances hinges on what the Court does in the tariffs case.”

Online at Politico, Ankush Khardori has an essay titled “Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court; The legal arguments for Trump’s tariffs are weak, so he’s arguing their rejection would bring ruin.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Trump’s lawyers just inadvertently admitted that his tariffs are illegal.”

“Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order; The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Matriarch in murder-for-hire trial decided not to testify after clashing with judge. The jury found her guilty the next day.” Lauren del Valle and Jean Casarez of CNN have this report.

And online at The Tallahassee Democrat, Tim Jansen has a legal analysis headlined “Donna is done: But is justice done with the Adelson family in Dan Markel murder?“

“I Am Begging the Judge Who Apologized to Neil Gorsuch to Have Some Self-Respect; The same justices who aren’t writing real opinions are now getting publicly upset at lower court judges for not correctly divining what those opinions might have said”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

Emil J. Bove has begun serving as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: See here and here.

“‘Unending sorrow’: Dan Markel’s parents trace Donna Adelson’s trail of broken lives.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Abrego Garcia Now Facing Shifting Threats of Deportation; A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole; On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini”: Hamed Aleaziz and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

“After more than 40 years in the solicitor general’s office, this lawyer says it was a privilege”: Online at ABA Journal, Anna Stolley Persky has an article that begins, “When Edwin S. Kneedler joined the Office of the Solicitor General in 1979, Warren E. Burger was the chief justice, and no women had ever served on the court.”

“Justice Barrett Argues Her Own Case, and the Court’s; In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little”: Jodi Kantor of The New York Times has this report.

Josh Christenson of The New York Post reports that “‘Spicy’ Justice Amy Coney Barrett says ‘Constitution is alive and well’: ‘I attack ideas . . . not people.’”

Joan Biskupic of CNN reports that “Justice Barrett dismisses concerns of a constitutional crisis.”

Breanne Deppisch and Ashley Oliver of Fox News report that “Justice Barrett opens up about ‘awkward’ start on SCOTUS, shadow docket and more in forthcoming memoir; Justice Barrett addressed universal injunctions, her relationship with fellow justices and much more at a sit-down interview in New York.” They also have a second report headlined “Justice Barrett defends Jackson jabs as ‘warranted’ in rare public appearance; Justice Amy Coney Barrett defended her ‘spicy’ remarks and her view of the Supreme Court during a wide-ranging interview Thursday night in New York City.”

David Voreacos of Bloomberg News reports that “Justice Barrett Says Trump Barbs a Dance ‘We’ve Seen Before.’”

Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court’s Barrett says US not in constitutional crisis.”

Erica Orden of Politico has a report headlined “Amy Coney Barrett: Reports of a constitutional crisis have been greatly exaggeratedSpeaking at a book event, the justice said the rule of law is not ‘crumbling.’”

Will Rahn of The Free Press has a report headlined “Amy Coney Barrett: There’s No Constitutional Crisis in America; In a rare public appearance, the Supreme Court justice tells The Free Press, ‘The Constitution is alive and well.’”

Kaelan Deese of Washington Examiner reports that “Barrett says thinking about Supreme Court as ‘Left and Right’ is wrong.”

In commentary, online at Balls and Strikes, Jay Willis has an essay titled “The Conservative Media Ecosystem Is Coddling Amy Coney Barrett; Nothing says ‘I am not a partisan hack’ like kicking off your book tour in conversation with Bari Weiss.”

And online at Slate, law professor Steven Lubet has an essay titled “Amy Coney Barrett Somehow Managed to Get the Law and the Bible Wrong in Her New Book.”

CBS News has posted this excerpt of the book online.

“This conservative judge wants Donald Trump’s attention; Andrew Oldham’s dissent in an immigration case reads like a Supreme Court audition”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Trump Tariff Challengers Back Fast-Track Supreme Court Review”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Donna Adelson trial: Three key moments for jurors that led to guilty verdict.” Elena Barrera of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report, along with an article headlined “Juror tells all: Jury foreperson in Donna Adelson’s trial speaks out after conviction.”

“The Supreme Court Can’t Keep Dodging the White House; Tariff and deportation cases will force the justices to choose between the rule of law and Trump”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Florida Matriarch Convicted in Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Law Professor; A jury found Donna Adelson guilty of murder in the 2014 death of her former son-in-law, Dan Markel, a Florida law professor; She is the fifth person to be convicted in the high-profile case”: Patricia Mazzei of The New York Times has this report.

“Harvard Judge Blasts Justice Gorsuch’s ‘Unhelpful’ Criticism”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a ‘constitutional crisis’; Speaking to Free Press founder Bari Weiss to promote her new book, the conservative justice said the American people should trust the Supreme Court”: Katherine Koretski and Lawrence Hurley of NBC News have this report.

“Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of F.T.C. Commissioner; A federal appeals court had reinstated the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, saying she was fired ‘without cause’”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to allow firing of FTC member; It’s the administration’s latest bid to gut a 1935 precedent that limited the president’s power to remove leaders of regulatory agencies.”

Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Trump asks Supreme Court to overrule 90-year precedent on shadow docket; The president’s latest termination request targets a Democratic FTC commissioner nominated by Trump himself during his first term.”

Lawrence Hurley of NBC News reports that “Justice Department asks Supreme Court to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner; The move directly challenges a 1935 Supreme Court precedent that upheld restrictions on the president’s power to remove FTC members without cause.”

And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire FTC Commissioner.”

You can access the stay application at this link.

“The Harvard Ruling Was Written Just for Amy Coney Barrett; It’s not an exaggeration to say the decision has an audience of one, who can help uphold it at the Supreme Court”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Appeals Court Says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Can Stay Open; An appeals panel paused a federal judge’s ruling that no additional detainees could be sent to the center, and that much of it had to be dismantled within 60 days”: Patricia Mazzei of The New York Times has this report.

Victoria Albert and Mariah Timms of The Wall Street Journal report that “Court Allows Alligator Alcatraz to Remain Open; Appeals-court ruling puts on hold decision that would have dismantled much of the facility.”

Alex Pickett of Courthouse News Service reports that “‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will remain open, for now; A divided 11th Circuit panel halted the dismantling of the migrant detention center while environmental groups’ lawsuit proceeds through appeal.”

And Taylor Mills of Bloomberg Law reports that “Alligator Alcatraz to Remain Open as DHS Appeals Shutdown.”

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

“Barrett Found Marathon Bomber Death Sentence Vote ‘Distasteful’”: Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues; Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused”: Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic; In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.”

And Suzanne Monyak of Bloomberg Law reports that “Kavanaugh Pushes New Label for Supreme Court Emergency Docket.”

“Appeals court keeps pause on order limiting National Guard actions in L.A.; The order had already been paused by the judge who handed it down this week”: Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

“Wrapping Up 2005 and 2006: Two big years in the confirmation wars.” Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Bonus 176: Law, Lawlessness, and Doomerism; Law is not — and never will be — a perfect constraint on government action; But claims that legal limits have become wholly irrelevant to the current administration are not just wrong; they’re dangerous.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“GUILTY: Jury reaches verdict in Donna Adelson trial in Dan Markel murder.” Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“Paul Weiss Adds Ex-Assistant to Solicitor General in Firm Return”: Justin Henry of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court’s handling of Trump cases; Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism”: Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report.