“Affirmation of Health Care Reform”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains an editorial that begins, “A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia endorsed the constitutionality of health care reform this week in an opinion as notable for its authorship as for its legal reasoning.”

Online at The New Republic, Bruce Brown has an essay entitled “How Conservative Judges Just Provided the Most Authoritative Legal Defense of Obamacare.”

And Tom Curry of MSNBC.com has a blog post titled “The Supreme Court and health reform: A guide.”

“Split Definitive: For the first time in a century, the Supreme Court is divided solely by political party.” Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Justice Stevens on His ‘Most Unpopular Opinion'”: Jess Bravin has this article today in The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.