“A Father, a Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census: How Stephanie Hofeller’s estrangement from her family may have altered American political history.” Charles Bethea has this post online at The New Yorker.
“Trump asks Supreme Court to OK border wall building”: Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times has this report.
“Appeals Court Upholds Decision Barring Trump Birth-Control Exemptions; Ruling finds employers can’t withhold contraception coverage, in fresh blow to administration’s deregulatory push”: Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court blocks Trump administration birth control exemptions.”
And Jessie Campisi of The Hill reports that “Appeals court blocks Trump administration birth control rules.”
You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.
“Trump’s Fight to Shield His Finances Faces Skepticism in Court”: Andrew M Harris and Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News have this report.
And in commentary, online at ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Trump’s lawyers just had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad morning; Turns out, the rule of law still applies to the president.”
“John Roberts’ argument for saving Obamacare helping power legal challenge”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.
“Some say ‘it’s time’ for person of color on Delaware Supreme Court”: Cris Barrish of WHYY has this report.
“On an often unpredictable Supreme Court, Justice Gorsuch is the latest wild card”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
“Why Pence spiked a Trump judge: The rare split between the president and his loyal sidekick offers a window into the vice president’s independent political ambitions.” Eliana Johnson of Politico has this report about efforts to fill a fleeting Seventh Circuit vacancy.
“Acosta Resigns as Labor Secretary over Epstein Plea Deal”: Annie Karni of The New York Times has this report.
John Wagner of The Washington Post reports that “Alex Acosta resigns as labor secretary amid intense scrutiny of his handling of Jeffrey Epstein case.”
And in earlier commentary, online at Slate, yesterday Dahlia Lithwick had a jurisprudence essay titled “How Alex Acosta Got Away With It: The only way the labor secretary could give Jeffrey Epstein that 2008 plea deal is by ignoring victims.”
And online at The New Yorker, Margaret Talbot had a post titled “The Judicial System Finally Catches Up to Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Trump’s cave on Census stuns allies”: Jonathan Swan of Axios has this report.
“Oregon school district’s restroom policy for transgender students goes before 9th Circuit”: Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian has this report.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted online on YouTube at this link the video of yesterday’s oral argument in Parents for Privacy v. Barr, No. 18-35708.
“Justice Clarence Thomas Will Enter His 29th Term In The Fall”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”
“George Will’s Libertarian Turn”: Mark Pulliam has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.