“I don’t think we are missing babies.” In part because of the risk of false positives, some doctors and hospitals around the U.S. have ended or limited routine drug testing during childbirth. Such testing is still common even as evidence mounts of flawed test results that have led to disastrous results for new mothers. Some doctors say there are smarter ways to evaluate when to drug test an expectant mother or a newborn child. “We should be doing medical tests for medical reasons, not criminal, punitive, prosecutorial reasons,” says a Colorado doctor who supports limiting testing. In collaboration with Reveal and Mother Jones, TMP’s Shoshana Walter has our story. The Marshall Project

Some states still investigate stillbirths and miscarriages as crimes. Police in southern Georgia arrested a 24-year-old woman last month after someone reported seeing her place a fetus in a bag in a dumpster. A coroner concluded that the woman suffered a miscarriage. It’s unclear whether police and prosecutors will now pursue the case, but the questions it raises echo in other states with laws that criminalize the concealment of a birth or stillbirth. Last fall, The Marshall Project covered in detail the impact these harsh laws have on people grieving the loss of an unborn child. TMP’s Cary Aspinwall updates our story. The Marshall Project

“Oopsie,” taunts El Salvador’s president. Trump administration lawyers conceded late Monday that federal immigration agents accidentally detained and deported a Maryland father with protected legal status because of an administrative error. But officials said federal judges are powerless to order the man’s return from a Salvadoran prison. The Atlantic Feds send 17 more people to that prison. The Washington Post More: Trump administration officials cite the Alien Enemies Act to justify the deportation of people to El Salvador. In several cases, there is no evidence that those who were deported have ties to any Venezuelan gangs. The New Yorker

Injunction junction. A federal judge on Monday barred the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA from firing employees who had been assigned to DEI roles. The Washington Post Another federal judge blocked Trump administration officials from curtailing the “protected” immigration status of roughly 600,000 Venezuelans living legally in the U.S. Politico More: The U.S. spent $40 million in a month to send 400 people to immigrant detention at its military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The New York Times The White House says it welcomes White Afrikaners even as it expels immigrants of color who have lived peacefully in the U.S. for decades. The New York Times

Unprecedented alumni reunion. More than 1,600 former Justice Department attorneys, from both Republican and Democratic administrations, sign a letter opposing White House attacks on lawyers, law firms and the rule of law. Medium Democrats and nonprofit organizations sued the Trump administration this week over the president’s executive order seeking to give more power to federal officials to change election laws. The Washington Post Related: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the independence of the federal judiciary: “Once norms are broken, then you are shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law.” The Washington Post

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Tuesday that federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last December. The Associated Press

Operation Lone Star, the multibillion-dollar immigration enforcement operation in Texas, has turbocharged the AI surveillance capabilities of the state’s law enforcement agencies. Some legislators have suggested limiting such surveillance powers, but the only pending legislation on the topic wouldn’t create significant restrictions or oversight. Texas Observer TMP Context: More on Operation Lone Star’s failed promises. The Marshall Project

The Justice Department moved this week to drop a Biden-era federal lawsuit against Georgia over the state’s new voting laws, which critics say are a thinly disguised form of voter suppression. Courthouse News

Karen Read’s murder retrial began in Massachusetts on Tuesday. She is accused of killing her boyfriend, a veteran Boston police officer, in 2022. Her first trial ended in a mistrial last year. The prosecution’s case has been marred by police misconduct. The Associated Press

One long-ago punch between two strangers in Brooklyn, New York, forever altered the lives of family members of both the victim and his assailant. The New York Times

The lawlessness is the point. Don’t expect contrition, or a remedy, from Vice President JD Vance when it comes to evidence that the Trump administration has deported people who have committed no crimes and joined no international gangs. The New Republic More: A University of Minnesota graduate student was taken into immigration custody because of a drunk driving arrest, not campus protests, federal officials said this week. NBC News

The “machinery of death” grinds on at the U.S. Supreme Court, which only occasionally rises up to strike down a flawed capital conviction or death sentence. Vanguard News Group

Don’t take for granted that you will be able to vote in the 2026 midterm elections. The passage of the SAVE Act could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, and create barriers to voting for most married women. Slate

Whatever happens next, things will never be the same. “Whether a new regime will replace the old, or whether the old regime will adapt features to make itself more resistant to authoritarian populism, the big picture here is the brutal confrontation between a governance system and its discontents and what the landscape will look like after they clash.” Lawfare More: Those aren’t “rogue” judges who are blocking Trump policies. One First

Working for 15 years to end the death penalty. “What I take with me is not a list of accomplishments, but a few key lessons I learned from this community: Err on the side of offering grace and forgiveness. Put ego aside. Work for what’s right rather than what’s possible. Listen deeply to people’s stories. Always keep widening the circle of compassion. And never forget that our capacity for love is our greatest power.” The Center for Death Penalty Litigation

A wrongful conviction in the making. Prosecutors in Florida are proceeding with a murder case against Michelle Taylor for allegedly burning her son to death in an arson fire. The state’s forensic evidence has already been discredited by several “fire experts.” The Intercept

A “stand-your-ground” case likely headed for trial. An Alabama judge this week rejected a self-defense claim made by a police officer who fatally shot a man who was standing in front of his own home. Mac Marquette, who started shooting less than two seconds after identifying himself as a law enforcement officer, faces a murder charge for killing Steve Perkins in Decatur in 2023. The Associated Press

The right to travel for an abortion. A federal judge in Alabama has ruled that prosecutors cannot charge doctors or health care workers for helping residents travel out of state to obtain an abortion. The New York Times No one has yet been charged with doing so. The Associated Press/AL.com

First came the plea deal. Now come details about Patrick Crusius’ defense case. The white supremacist who killed 23 people and wounded 22 more in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is expected to plead guilty this month to avoid a possible death penalty. His lawyers say they would have told jurors at trial that Crusius believed he was acting at President Donald Trump’s direction when he carried out the rifle attack. El Paso Matters

“Everyone can learn warning signs.” The “Say Something” anonymous reporting system set up by a group founded by parents of Sandy Hook school shooting victims has helped thwart 18 credible school shooting threats since 2018. The Washington Post