“Garland Clerks Feed Pipeline to SCOTUS on Left & Right”: Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Obama Revisits Law School to Give a Supreme Court Lecture”: Michael D. Shear of The New York Times has this report.

Kim Geiger and Rick Pearson of The Chicago Tribune report that “Obama makes his case at U. of C. for Supreme Court nominee.”

Tina Sfondeles of The Chicago Sun-Times reports that “Obama returns home to push for ‘ideal’ Supreme Court nominee.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Obama: GOP jeopardizing judicial integrity with Garland.”

“Court says Farmington can’t fire school counselor who helped student get abortion”: The New Hampshire Union Leader has this report.

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Adviser who helped girl get abortion should keep job.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire at this link.

“Sotomayor, in Santa Fe, discusses court qualifications, her childhood”: This article appears in today’s edition of The Santa Fe New Mexican.

“SJC hears case of teen who allegedly encouraged friend to kill himself”: Andy Rosen of The Boston Globe has an article that begins, “An attorney for Michelle Carter on Thursday asked the state’s highest court to halt the prosecution against her for allegedly encouraging a friend to kill himself, arguing that she should not have been charged because her actions did not directly cause the death.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Court hears case of teen who sent beau texts urging suicide.”

You can view the publicly available briefs filed in the case via this link. The prosecution’s brief appears to have been filed under seal. And the oral argument video should be available via this link sometime soon.

“Christian cross has no place on L.A. County seal, judge rules”: Abby Sewell of The Los Angeles Times has an article that begins, “In a long-awaited ruling, a federal judge has sided with plaintiffs who argued it was unconstitutional for Los Angeles County supervisors to place a Christian cross on the county seal.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Judge rules putting cross on LA County seal unconstitutional.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California at this link.

“The Counter-Clerks of Justice Scalia”: Ian J. Samuel has posted this paper online at SSRN.

Greetings from Houston, Texas: Where it is pleasantly warmer than where I came from.

Programming note: This afternoon, I will be heading to Houston, Texas to meet with trial counsel on a matter that is heading to appeal on which I will be working. As a result, additional posts will appear here tonight. This is a quick visit to Houston; I will be back home tomorrow night.

As always when I am traveling, more frequent appellate-related updates are likely to appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Key conservatives pushing Mike Lee for the Supreme Court”: James Hohmann has this blog entry online today at The Washington Post.

In case you missed it, I had this related post earlier this month.

“Obama to visit U. of C., make case for confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee”: Kim Geiger of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Obama going back to school on Garland nomination.”

According to this information that The Chicago Sun-Times has posted online, President Obama’s remarks are scheduled to occur at 3:30 p.m. eastern time today.