(Subscription required) In pursuit of its unprecedented goal to deport one million immigrants, the second Trump administration has used legally and ethically questionable tactics -- including secretive third-country removals without due process or notice -- prompting a nationwide lawsuit, a temporary injunction, and an ongoing legal battle now poised to return to the Supreme Court.

(Subscription required) The dispute over whether young adults can buy firearms has divided circuits across the country, with some appellate court panels striking down laws as violations of the Second Amendment and other circuits upholding them. The latest dispute, headed to the 9th Circuit, concerns a California law.

Div. Two of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that codefendants may oppose one another’s motions for summary judgment, where the plaintiff fails to do so, if they are “adverse” in the sense of having incompatible competing interests in the outcome of the litigation, regardless of whether either one has filed a cross-claim against the other.

While preparing to slash health-care funding to millions of low-income Americans, the Trump administration is also illegally sharing their private health information with immigration officials engaged in mass deportations, California and 19 other states charged in a lawsuit Tuesday.