“Former Trump attorney seeks to sideline justices from case involving fake electors”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a report that begins, “President Donald Trump’s former campaign attorney is arguing how two state Supreme Court justices responded to a lawsuit filed by Trump to overturn Wisconsin’s presidential election should bar the justices from overseeing a case involving his role in an effort to overturn the election.”

“Two liberal challengers test Georgia’s entrenched Supreme Court; Former Democratic attorney general nominee joins broader effort to oust GOP-appointed justices on Georgia’s top court”: Greg Bluestein of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Trump’s Tariff Loss Is the Worst Judicial Defeat in Presidential History; From Jefferson to Lincoln, Nixon to Bush, no president’s agenda has been so thoroughly undercut by the Supreme Court”: Law professor Josh Blackman has this essay online at City Journal.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Blackman has a post titled “Justice Gorsuch’s Campy Concurrence; Justice Gorsuch takes us on visit of Camp Barrett, Camp Kagan, Camp Kavanaugh, and Camp Thomas.”

“Lawyers Can Charge Big Rates Even If Firm Is Small, Court Rules”: Roy Strom of Bloomberg Law has this report on a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Update: In other coverage, Mike Scarcella of Reuters reports that “US appeals court says law firm’s size doesn’t limit legal fees.”

“Again, Trump Completely Misreads the Law”: Lev Menand and Joel Michaels have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Taking Stock of Justice Souter”: Law professor G. Edward White has posted this article online at SSRN.

“Tariffs were illegal. Now Trump wants to delay refunds. The government said small businesses would be made whole. It’s time to pay up.” Neal Katyal has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Putting Trump’s Backlash Against The Tariff Ruling In Context”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” along with an earlier post titled “Annotating President Trump’s Press Conference About The Tariffs Ruling.”

“Tenth Circuit’s Tymkovich to Step Back as Trump Gains New Seat”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Does Section 230 Immunize Twitter’s Knowing Possession of Child Sex Abuse Materials? A recently filed cert petition presents this important issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.” Paul Cassell has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

You can view the cert. petition at this link.

“Supreme Court Finally Checks Trump; The president’s ire is fueling his flailing response”: Dan Rather has this post at his “Steady” Substack site.

“Learning Resources and Youngstown: ‘is this case a big deal?’” William Baude has this post at the “Divided Argument” Substack site.

“The Tariff Wears Two Hats: What SCOTUS Doesn’t Understand.” John C. Eastman has this post at the American Mind site of the Claremont Institute.

“Trump Faces Tough Legal Landscape to Oppose Tariff Refunds”: Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News has this report.

“American Bar Association puts Trump on blast for SCOTUS attacks; After calling the justices fools for ruling against him last week, President Trump said Monday that he’d no longer be capitalizing ‘Supreme Court’ as a reflection of its disrespect for his authority”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine, Margaret Hartmann has a post titled “Trump Gets Back at ‘supreme court’ by Revoking Capital Letters.”

“Longtime Fifth Circuit Bulwark Dennis Stops Hearing Cases”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Tom Goldstein Won $51 Million Against Billionaire Heads-Up Legend Andy Beal”: Connor Richards of PokerNews has this report.

“What the Roberts Court Is Actually Trying to Accomplish: It’s not about Trump.” Sarah Isgur has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Clarence Thomas Has Lost the Plot; The associate justice’s dissent in the tariffs case deserves some extra attention, because it his hopelessly uncoupled from law, history, and the Constitution”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Republican Judges Are Using Imaginary Voter Fraud to Empower Real Voter Suppression; Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones says that mail-in balloting is a ‘rich field for fraud’ in Texas; The numbers tell a different story”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Tonight Show: At the State of the Union address, will Trump or John Roberts blink first?” Reynolds Holding has this post at his “Better Judgment” Substack site.

“Jeanine Pirro’s office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say; A federal grand jury in D.C. unanimously rejected the attempt to indict six lawmakers who told military and intelligence community members on social media not to obey unlawful orders”: Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News has this report.

“Supreme Court to consider whether states can sue over greenhouse gas emissions; Dozens of municipalities are seeking billions in damages from oil and gas companies, often accusing them of misleading the public about the links between greenhouse gases and climate risks”: Justin Jouvenal of The Washington Post has this report.

“Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs; President Trump is already working to piece his tariff program back together, after a Supreme Court ruling ruptured a centerpiece of his economic agenda”: Ana Swanson of The New York Times has this report.

Gavin Bade of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Considers New National Security Tariffs After Supreme Court Ruling; New levies on a half-dozen industries would be issued separately from a new global 15% levy.”

Katherine Hamilton of The Wall Street Journal reports that “FedEx Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Seeking Refund of Tariffs; Complaint follows Supreme Court’s rejection of Trump’s trade initiative.”

In commentary, Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “The Unending Trump Tariff Mess; Section 122, the basis for his new tax plan, is a relic of a bygone age.”

And in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, columnist Walter Russell Mead will have an op-ed titled “The Tariff Battles Are Far From Over; Limits on Mr. Trump will inspire a search to increase his leverage at home and abroad.”

“Judge Bars Release of Special Counsel Report on Trump’s Mishandling of Documents; Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, slammed the former special counsel, Jack Smith, for drafting the report even after she had dismissed the case”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck of The Washington Post reports that “Judge Cannon orders secrecy for report on Trump classified-documents case; A federal judge in Florida blocked public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s extensive report into the classified-documents case against President Donald Trump.”

Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of Jack Smith report; The Trump-appointed judge said releasing the classified docs report now would ‘contravene basic notions of fairness and justice.’”

And in commentary, Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal will contain an editorial titled “Jack Smith’s Second Report Stays Buried; Judge Cannon says Trump and the rest are still presumed innocent.”

“Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders; At least 35 times since August, federal judges have ordered the administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases”: Mattathias Schwartz, Zach Montague, and Ernesto Londoño of The New York Times have this report.

“The Supreme Court Hears a Tax Forfeiture Horror Story; The Justices can rule against an excessive fine and property seizure in Pung v. Isabella County”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

Bomb cyclone snowstorm cancels jury deliberations today in United States v. Goldstein: The next opportunity for a verdict in the case will be tomorrow, Tuesday, February 24, 2026. The district court’s website is hosting these stipulations entered into earlier in the case.

“Let’s Talk Tariffs: A Closer Look At The SCOTUS Opinions; Turning from the big picture to the finer points, here are assorted observations about specific parts of the decisions.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released”: Law professor Daniel Richman has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Two chief US appellate judges to leave active service, handing Trump vacancies”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“SCOTUS Again Takes on the 2nd Amendment — What Could Go Wrong?” You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“The Decaying Legal Culture in the Defense Department; Trump and Hegseth will leave the uniformed military damaged by illegality, and Congress will be complicit”: Jack Goldsmith has this post at the “Executive Functions” Substack site.

“The Roberts Court Invokes Congress and the Constitution; Constitutional understandings aside, in over two hundred years, Congress had never used the word ‘regulate’ to delegate a taxing power to the executive branch”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“The Supreme Court’s Complicated Takedown of Trump’s Tariffs; There are seven separate opinions — and even the Justices who agree with one another are in some ways at odds”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this essay online at The New Yorker.