“President Trump’s administration on Monday filed its 41st application to the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, a milestone that matches the total number of petitions it filed during his entire first term — in less than two years,” Axios reports.

“The record highlights how often the president has turned to SCOTUS to secure authority to temporarily revive policies blocked by lower courts.”

“The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow its policy limiting gender-affirming treatment for federal inmates to take effect while a legal challenge plays out in court,” the Washington Sun reports.

“Three federal appeals courts have rejected President Trump’s go-to move in trying to install allies as United States attorneys, the officials who lead the prosecutors’ offices in the nation’s 94 judicial districts. In each case, the courts said Trump had violated a law that limits who can run the offices when there are vacancies,” the New York Times reports.

“Those decisions have complicated Trump’s efforts to investigate and prosecute his political foes.”

“The administration this month asked the Supreme Court to review two of the decisions, warning that they ‘risk chaos’ and threaten ‘to inject mass confusion’ into thousands of ordinary cases.”

Adam Liptak: “Supreme Court justices work for the government but treat their official papers as private property. As my frequent reporting partner Jodi Kantor wrote this month, that means they can withhold them from the public until long after they have died, or destroy them entirely.”

“In a brief filed last week in a federal appeals court, the Trump administration twice cited Jodi’s article to argue that presidents should have the same power. A 1978 law requires White House documents to be preserved and disclosed relatively soon after the president leaves office. The brief says that law violates the Constitution.”