Today's five.

A Minneapolis high-rise, a haze of gunfire, and three people dead

The 14th Amendment is doing a lot of work right now. A Maryland federal judge blocked Trump's second executive order targeting birthright citizenship, calling it "almost certainly unconstitutional" — the same conclusion she reached about the first one. This version was narrower: it targeted children of parents in designated terrorist organizations and so-called "birth tourists." Didn't matter. Bloomberg led with the Supreme Court backdrop; NBC led with the 35-page ruling. The Supreme Court already blocked version one in June. Judge Boardman's exact words were "once again." The administration has now lost this fight at multiple levels and keeps refiling it anyway.

The U.S. military has conducted roughly 65 strikes on small watercraft in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past year, and the main disagreement is whether to call it a counternarcotics campaign or something worse. At least 227 civilians are dead, according to an Intercept analysis — including Trinidadian nationals Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, cited by an ACLU attorney as evidence of the human cost. The White House says the boats carry drugs from Venezuela and Colombia. The Intercept quoted a defense official calling it "a year of murders." A classified Justice Department opinion attempted to establish legal cover before the strikes began.

The Lindsay Clancy jury has now deadlocked twice, which means twelve people have sat through a lengthy murder trial and still cannot agree on whether a mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The judge gave them a stern message Wednesday — essentially a formal instruction urging them to try harder — then sent them home anyway. Before all that, a woman was arrested for filming jurors leaving the courthouse, which is the kind of sidebar that would feel absurd in any other context. The trial started in January 2023. The jury is back Thursday.

A law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in Florida has a 2027 effective date, which apparently didn't stop two voting advocacy groups from filing a federal challenge this week. The law passed on a near-party-line vote and was signed by DeSantis in April. Black Voters Matter Fund and the League of United Latin American Citizens — represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center — argue it's designed to shrink the electorate by targeting specific communities. The Tampa Bay Times led with the SPLC angle; Florida Phoenix led with the legal timeline. The law takes effect January 1st. The lawsuit takes effect now.