“US Supreme Court settles long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio Grande”: Susan Montoya Bryan of The Associated Press has this report.

“Interview: Lord Reed reflects on UKSC Glasgow sitting, changing times and AI; Fresh from the Supreme Court’s Glasgow sitting, President of the UK Supreme Court, Lord Reed of Allermuir, spoke to SLN editor Kapil Summan.” Kapil Summan of Scottish Legal News has this report.

“Sonia Sotomayor’s Muddle on Foreign Law; New issue emerges in confirmation battle”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Orin Kerr (MS ’94): The Accidental Prosecutor Who Reframed Fourth Amendment Law.” Monica Schreiber has this article in the Winter/Spring 2026 issue of Stanford Lawyer.

“Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department; Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department”: Jose Pagliery of NOTUS has this report.

“Eleanor Ross of Atlanta Is Judge Reprimanded for Sex in Chambers”: Suzanne Monyak, Olivia Alafriz, and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“In Alabama Case, Supreme Court Faces First Major Test of Voting Rights Act Ruling; Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

“Former Judges Urge Inquiry Into Deal Trump Struck With I.R.S.; The motion was particularly significant because it asked the judge overseeing the initial suit against the I.R.S. to examine the terms of the deal”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

Zoe Tillman of Bloomberg News reports that “Ex-Federal Judges Urge ‘Fraud’ Probe of Trump IRS Settlement.”

And Megan Butler of Courthouse News Service reports that “Former judges accuse Trump of deceiving court with fraudulent ‘anti-weaponization’ settlement; A settlement was never brought before the court before the president dismissed his suit against the IRS, according to 35 former federal judges.”

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Judge to Decide How Long Torture’s Taint Infected the Sept. 11 Case; Eight days of legal arguments at Guantánamo have brought the long-running terrorism case to a moment of truth in the long wait for justice”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.

“When I Left Big Law, I Learned This”: Matthew Wollin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll”: Hannah Rabinowitz, Paula Reid, and Kara Scannell of CNN have this report.

And Glenn Thrush of The New York Times reports that “Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll; The investigation is said to center on whether Ms. Carroll committed perjury in civil lawsuits against Donald J. Trump, whom she accused of sexual assault.”

“Appeals court unlikely to intervene in ‘Scandoval’ revenge porn lawsuit; The ‘Vanderpump Rules’ love triangle may be a distant memory, but the litigation is just getting warmed up”: Hillel Aron of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Who Is The District Court Judge Who Was Privately Reprimanded For Having Loud Sex In Her Chambers With A Law Enforcement Officer From Her District? The clues in the memorandum point to a specific judge.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justice Anthony Kennedy assesses the challenges facing the Supreme Court in Trump’s second term”: You can access the new episode of the PBS program “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” via this link.

“A Warning to Quorum Breakers; If quorum breakers make legislation impossible, the Court has preserved room for itself to ‘throw them out’”: Aaron L. Nielson has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“Trump Slush Fund May Cost Todd Blanche the Attorney General Job”: Elie Honig has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“Allergan Product Liability Blindness Suit Revived by NJ Justices”: Alex Ebert of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

You can access today’s decision of a unanimous Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.

“Light Penalty for Judge Who Had Sex in Chambers Draws Criticism”: Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law has this report.

It appears that online sleuths may have identified the judge involved, and presumably Congress could get involved if impeachment and removal from office were to be merited, so the “light penalty” imposed thus far might not be the end of the story.

“Married judge had sex with cop in courthouse — and horrified clerks heard ‘moaning,’ ‘kissing sounds’”: Daniel Cody of The New York Post has an article that begins, “You had the right to remain silent, Your Honor.”

“Supreme Court Rejects Lawsuit Over Commercial Driver’s Licenses for Migrants; Florida officials had asked the justices to hear a lawsuit accusing California and Washington of improperly granting licenses to an immigrant accused in a fatal crash”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Thomas and Alito see Supreme Court role in refereeing fights between red and blue states; English-language proficiency has been a topic of concern among the conservative justices as the Trump administration seeks to clamp down on immigrants with commercial driver’s licenses.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Trump fumes at Congress and courts for holding up his ballroom; The president bulldozed the East Wing and remade federal panels that quickly approved his ballroom project; But he has faced barriers as he seeks to complete it”: Dan Diamond of The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court Reverses Ruling in Immigration Judges’ Free Speech Lawsuit; A group of immigration judges in 2020 challenged work-related restrictions on their public speaking engagements, saying they violated their free speech rights”: Ann E. Marimow of The New York Times has this report.

You can access today’s per curiam decision of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Judge Had Sex in Chambers in Earshot of Clerks, Panel Says”: Suzanne Monyak and Jacqueline Thomsen of Bloomberg Law have this report.

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Panel upholds US judge’s private reprimand for affair with police officer.”

You can access related documents here and here.

“‘It Ends in a Monarchy’; Trump the businessman said, ‘You’re fired’; Trump the president is suing to say those words whenever he wants”: Jesse Wegman has this post at his “Major Questions” Substack site.

“SCOTUS Through the Decades | Interview: Nina Totenberg.” You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Feeder Frenzy; The latest SCOTUS clerk hires, a new feeder judge ‘tag team,’ and a question about transferring law schools and how it might affect one’s clerkship quest.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Supreme Court Reform Will Test Democrats”: Ronald Brownstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Timeline Narrows for Trump to Fill Judge Seats Before Midterms”: Olivia Alafriz of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries; Judges and grand juries have increasingly lost faith in the Justice Department as the president uses it to reward his friends and go after his opponents”: Alan Feuer of The New York Times has this report.

“Judicial Notice (05.25.26): Day Of Reckoning; A verdict in Musk v. Altman, a deeper dive into John Quinn and Quinn Emanuel, Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund,’ and more litigators leaving Paul Weiss.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits; For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants; Now those plaintiffs have A.I., and their filings are consuming more and more bandwidth”: Mattathias Schwartz and Zach Montague of The New York Times have this report.

“Were the Constitution’s Authors a Little Too Optimistic? The nation’s founding document has a blind spot. Trump is making it visible.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this Ideas essay.

“Ninja Court Packing”: You can access the new episode of the “Divided Argument” podcast via this link.

“229. A Tale of Two High-Profile Immigration Cases: Developments on Friday in the cases of Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Abrego Garcia underscore both the role courts can play in checking immigration abuses and the limits those courts can often confront.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“The ‘greatest threat’ to rule of law in decades. That’s how lawyers, judges see Trump.” Columnist Mark Z. Barabak has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.