“Sorry, Apple, Your ‘Code Is Speech’ Claim May Not Hold Up”: Jeff John Roberts of Fortune.com has this report.

“Who Believes the GOP Is Serious About Blocking Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee?” Steven Strauss has this blog entry today at The Huffington Post.

“Trump: Judge’s ethnicity matters in Trump University suit.” The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is trying to deflect attention from a class-action civil lawsuit involving the former Trump University by pointing to the ethnic background of the judge in the case.”

“The war of words behind the Supreme Court nomination battle”: Michael Kinsley has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“That Time Ted Cruz Submitted a Supreme Court Brief Citing . . . Ted Cruz; How his ‘extremely conservative’ law school article about ritual sacrifice made it to the highest court”: Michael Linhorst has this article online at Politico Magazine.

“1780s clause at center of Menendez corruption case battle”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “When three federal appellate judges settle into their seats Monday to hear arguments in the corruption case against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, they will be asked to delve deeply into an idea that, though little known outside legal circles, is as deeply embedded in the American DNA as the right to free speech.”

The oral argument will occur tomorrow afternoon before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit consisting of Circuit Judges Thomas L. Ambro and Kent A. Jordan and Senior Circuit Judge Anthony J. Scirica.

When the oral argument audio becomes available online, I will link to it.

“GOP senators aim to confirm judges — just not for SCOTUS; Democrats are accusing Republicans of rank hypocrisy”: Burgess Everett of Politico.com has this report.

“Justices weigh if DA-turned-judge had murder case conflict”: Maryclaire Dale and Mark Sherman of The Associated Press have this report.

“Sandra Day O’Connor and the fate of abortion rights”: Linda Hirshman has this op-ed online at The Los Angeles Times.

“The Roberts Court Source-Code: Pinpointing the Justices’ Opinion Construction Toolkits.” Adam Feldman has posted this paper online at SSRN.

“Wanted: Supreme Court Nominee. Must Not Bruise Easily.” Gardiner Harris will have this White House Letter in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Obama’s Tangled History With Supreme Court Sets Stage for Nominee Fight”: Peter Baker will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“That Coke Can Is Back”: Columnist Maureen Dowd has this op-ed in the Sunday Review section of today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Arguments in Supreme Court abortion case pitched to audience of one”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“U.S. court test on abortion reflects success of strategy shift”: Joan Biskupic of Reuters has this report.

“Republicans: ‘Do Your Job,’ Then Let People Decide.” Kenneth Jost has this post today at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“I thought I could reason with Antonin Scalia: A more naive young fool never drew breath; I clerked for Scalia, certain he prized reason; From our leather chairs, we never saw the lives his rulings gutted.” Law professor Bruce Hay has this essay at Salon.com. Presumably this is not the sort of law clerk “tribute” to Justice Scalia that “SCOTUSblog” intends on publishing.