“I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country.” Hachette Book Group is scheduled to release Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s new book on the first Tuesday of October 2026.

“Ultra Vires”: Law professor Samuel Issacharoff has posted this article online at SSRN.

“Want to get into a great college? Try being rich, male, and a champion squash player. A 2023 Supreme Court decision barred colleges from considering race in deciding who gets in. But what has resulted is anything but equitable.” Kara Miller of The Boston Globe has this report.

“ICE Isn’t Just Breaking the Law. It’s Trying to Rewrite It.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Prosecution’s Case Against Goldstein Starts to Gel on 11th Day”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Charlie Adelson appeal: Three takeaways as judges play devil’s advocate.” Elena Barrera of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

And earlier, Jeff Burlew of The Tallahassee Democrat had an article headlined “‘Uphill battle’: Charlie Adelson attorneys to argue for new trial.”

“A Supreme Court Lawyer Replaced Himself With AI. How Did It Go?” Bloomberg Law has posted this video on YouTube.

“Galveston man sues California doctor under new Texas law allowing lawsuits over abortion pills; Under House Bill 7, a private citizen who successfully sues an abortion pill provider can receive up to $100,000 from the defendant”: Zahiyah Carter of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive: Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court’s inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.” Jodi Kantor of The New York Times has this report.

“207. The Justice Department Beclowns Itself (Again): The denouement of DOJ’s misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg provides useful lessons relating to both the Department’s continuing misbehavior and the emptiness of calls for impeachment.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Justice Dept. Sidelines Ed Martin as Chief of Weaponization Group; The move represents a consolidation of the authority of the deputy attorney general, Todd Blanche, in bringing Mr. Martin’s operation inside his office”: Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

Perry Stein and Beth Reinhard of The Washington Post report that “Justice Dept. demotes Ed Martin, stripping Trump ally of most authority; Martin will no longer head the Justice Department task force that pushed investigations into Trump’s foes.”

And Sadie Gurman and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal report that “Trump Ally Ed Martin Loses Weaponization Czar Role; Martin, who was responsible for pursuing some of the president’s top priorities, remains at the Justice Department as its pardon attorney.”

“A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight; A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.

“Judicial Notice (02.01.26): The $4,000-An-Hour Club; Tom Goldstein’s trial, Brad Karp and Kathy Ruemmler’s Epstein emails, brutal benchslaps for ICE, and another Biglaw firm launches in Charlotte.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Goldstein’s Ex-Firm Managers Talk IRS Probe, Accounting Errors”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Objections overruled — Utah to expand its Supreme Court, with approval from Legislature, Cox; Utah Gov. Spencer Cox quickly signed the bill into law; After filling the new seats, Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices”: Robert Gehrke of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

And Hannah Schoenbaum and Morgan Lee of The Associated Press report that “Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms.”

“Does the Constitution protect begging? Supreme Court asked to decide; In Alabama’s pending appeal, the state argues begging was widely criminalized at the start of the nation so should not be protected speech under the First Amendment.” Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“Federal Courts Undercut Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign; A policy intended to keep immigrants detained indefinitely has led to a deluge of lawsuits, overwhelming some federal courts and resulting in many releases”: Miriam Jordan and Devlin Barrett of The New York Times have this report.

“Trump tries humor, gets some silence at black-tie dinner with ‘people I hate’; In a frenetic presidency marked by jarring contrasts, he added another Saturday night: suiting up in black-tie regalia amid mass immigration protests and telling jokes about invading Greenland.” Matt Viser of The Washington Post has this report.

From the article:

“I had the nastiest, most vicious joke about John Roberts,” he said of the Supreme Court chief justice. “If you think I’m going to tell that joke you can forget it.”

“I’m going to kiss his ass for a long time,” he added, an apparent reference to the role Roberts could play in deciding current and future cases involving Trump and his administration.

“Trump Lawsuit Against IRS Puts Him on Both Sides of the Same Case; The president is the plaintiff, but he also oversees the people who could decide on a payout”: Richard Rubin, C. Ryan Barber, and Annie Linskey of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“A mysterious delay in the Supreme Court tariffs case; The Trump administration, though the underdog, will find each passing week an encouraging sign”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Robert Pratt, Federal Judge Who Derided Trump Pardons, Dies at 78; He was chastised for remarks ridiculing the pardons of two congressional campaign aides who had been convicted in a bribery plot”: Richard Sandomir of The New York Times has this report.

“Ethics Complaint Against Obama Judge Was Not Properly Investigated, Watchdog Alleges”: Katelynn Richardson of Daily Caller has this report.

You can access the request for further review at this link.

“The Right’s Gun Obsession Is Catching On With the Left”: Erika D. Smith has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judge Who Ruled Against Trump Administration Cleared of Justice Dept. Complaint; Trump allies have called for Judge James E. Boasberg to be investigated and impeached after decisions that questioned the administration’s respect for the rule of law”: Mattathias Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

Salvador Rizzo of The Washington Post reports that “DOJ misconduct complaint against D.C. federal judge dismissed; The unusual complaint against Chief Judge James Boasberg, tossed out for lack of evidence, illustrated how Trump officials have ramped up attacks against federal judges.”

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “US Justice Department’s misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg gets tossed.”

You can access the Memorandum and Order that Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton issued at this link.

“Should Any Programs Help Minority Groups? In Lawsuits, Conservatives Say No. Lawyers have filed a rush of lawsuits against corporations, law firms, health care companies, art groups and nonprofits. And they are mostly winning.” Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times has this report.

“Final defendant in GirlsDoPorn sex trafficking case sentenced to 4 years in prison”: Quinn Welsch of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“My Tariffs Have Brought America Back; The ‘experts’ predicted market crashes, massive inflation and recession; They were all wrong”: President Donald J. Trump will have this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“9th Circuit upholds California ban on switchblades in San Diego lawsuit; The opinion upholds a San Diego judge’s prior ruling that the switchblade ban is constitutional”: Alex Riggins of The San Diego Union-Tribune has this report.

And Carly Nairn of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ninth Circuit upholds California’s switchblade ban; A Ninth Circuit panel of judges ruled California’s prohibition of carrying concealed switchblades did not violate the Second Amendment.”

You can access today’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Judge chastises Trump administration attorney in hearing over dismantled President’s House exhibits; The city wants the judge to order that no more exhibits be removed and that the already-removed exhibits be protected as the litigation continues”: Abraham Gutman and Fallon Roth of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

And Jackson Healy of Courthouse News Service has an article headlined “‘You can’t erase history once you’ve learned it’: Judge slams Interior Department for removing slavery exhibit; Questioning a government attorney on almost every aspect of his arguments, a federal judge at one point said: ‘It can’t be that you practice law like that.’”

“Tom Goldstein Prosecutors Violated Disclosure Duty, Judge Says”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Loose cannabis is like spilled beer, not open container in car, state Supreme Court rules”: Sonja Sharp of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article headlined “Do marijuana crumbs in a car break the law? California Supreme Court rules.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of California at this link.

“Utah moves to expand its Supreme Court, the first state to do so since 2016; ‘It tells you we value the courts,’ said Senate President Stuart Adams on the quick passage of the court expansion bill”: Emma Pitts of The Deseret News has this report.

“Biography celebrates life of North Dakota’s longest serving Supreme Court Chief Justice; ‘Call Me Jerry’ chronicles Jerry VandeWalle’s remarkable life of service”: Michael Standaert of North Dakota News Cooperative has this report.

“Panama High Court Gives Trump a Win Over Canal by Ousting Hong Kong Port Operator; In blow to China, Supreme Court says CK Hutchison’s contract breaches the constitution”: Santiago Pérez of The Wall Street Journal has this report.