“The risk that [the plaintiff’s child] would be subject to another such search is no more ‘actual and imminent’ than the Chicago Cubs (or, we fear, the Cleveland Indians) winning the World Series.” So wrote Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in a decision issued on November 20, 2015.

My post about the ruling, which appeared here that same day, observed that “this bulletin-board material may be just the additional motivation the [Chicago Cubs] need to win it all in 2016.” It appears to have also worked wonders for the Cleveland Indians.

“Longtime reporter says Supreme Court is broken”: Columnist Susan Ladd of The News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina has an essay that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court is unlike any other branch of government — which makes covering it a bit like reporting on Oz, said Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate who writes ‘Supreme Court Dispatches’ and the ‘Jurisprudence’ column.”

“NCGOP says ‘race baiting’ used in NC Supreme Court TV ad”: Colin Campbell of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

“Three cases stymied by a Supreme Court vacancy”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.