“Will Pennsylvania Do Away With Elections for Supreme Court? An expensive, tough-on-crime race tests the current system.” Christie Thompson has this report online today at The Marshall Project.

“Rising tide of interstate battles could swamp Supreme Court”: Jeremy P. Jacobs of Greenwire has this report today.

“Fourth Circuit grants rehearing, eliminates split, on cell-site surveillance”: Orin Kerr has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Apple asks U.S. Supreme Court to toss e-books antitrust decision”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“U.S. court will not halt NSA phone spy program before ban”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report.

The Associated Press reports that “Court rejects ACLU’s request to stop phone record collection.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Appeals court won’t block last month of NSA phone surveillance program.”

And David Kravets of Ars Technica reports that “Court says it’s legal for NSA to spy on you because Congress says it’s OK.”

And at the “Just Security” blog, Steve Vladeck has a post titled “Section 215 and ‘Fruitless’ (?!?) Constitutional Adjudication.”

You can access today’s ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

Update: In other coverage, Charlie Savage of The New York Times reports that “N.S.A. Won’t Be Ordered to Stop Bulk Collection Early.”

“A ‘Harry Potter’ Defense of Affirmative Action”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

You can access at this link the merits Brief for Respondents that the University of Texas at Austin filed on Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court in the Fisher case.

“Supreme Court faces new challenges to Obamacare’s ‘contraceptive mandate'”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age”: Erik Eckholm has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And today, Harvard Law School issued a news release titled “Harvard Law School Launches ‘Free the Law’ Project with Ravel Law To Digitize US Case Law, Provide Free Access.”

“Constitution Check: Do individual rights stop at the U.S. border?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Zimmer Ruling Continues Pa. Justices’ Pro-Plaintiff Trend”: Dan Packel has this article (subscription required for full access) in which I am quoted at Law360.com.

My earlier coverage of the ruling can be accessed here.

“Huge Sums Are Pouring Into Judicial Elections, But That Would Never Affect the Courts, Right? A new report shows that the flood of independent spending in judicial races across the country continues to head skyward.” AJ Vicens of Mother Jones has this report today.

“Let’s not make a deal”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial that begins, “Is the silence emanating from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court the sound of another backroom deal? It’s been about a month since Justice J. Michael Eakin’s dirty emails began seeping into public view like so much untreated waste, but the high court and judicial disciplinary officials have yet to muster anything like a convincing response.”

“Why the death penalty might come to an end”: Minnesota Public Radio has this report.

“Church, State, and the Supreme Court’s Moment of Truth”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.