“Could a North Texan Become the Next Supreme Court Justice?” Kris Gutierrez of NBC 5 of Dallas/Fort Worth has a report that begins, “Long before Donald Trump won the election, he released a list of names of potential Supreme Court nominees. There are 21 people on that list, and one is from North Texas.”

And in related coverage, Dennis Owens of ABC 27 of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Widener Law remembers fallen alum with scholarship.” Harrisburg Magazine offers this gallery of photos from the scholarship dedication ceremony.

“The Future of U.S. v. Texas, Gloucester County School Board v. GG, and Zubik v. Burwell at #SCOTUS”: Josh Blackman has this post today at his newly redesigned blog.

In addition, Josh was recently interviewed by Texas Standard for a piece titled “Here Are Four Supreme Court Cases Trump Could Throw Out; “Whatever President Obama”s pen and phone giveth, Donald Trump’s Sharpie and Twitter can taketh away.”

“Where Even Nightmares Are Classified: Psychiatric Care at Guantanamo; Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees.” Sheri Fink will have this front page article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“State calls for Supreme Court to weigh in on polar bear habitat”: Shady Grove Oliver of The Arctic (AK) Sounder has this report.

“Decisions on school finance, abortion ahead for Kansas Supreme Court”: Bryan Lowry of The Wichita Eagle has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Kansas Supreme Court to take up cases fueling ouster efforts.”

“D.C. Circuit Review – Reviewed: 13,000 Words.” Aaron Nielson has this post today at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

The 2016 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit continues today in Philadelphia: This morning’s program begins with a conversation with Justice Elena Kagan. Coverage may appear at this blog’s Twitter feed.

Ninth Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan offered some interesting comments yesterday while serving as a panelist on a panel titled “Making 31 Flavors of Opinions: Who’s Eating What You’re Serving?”

According to Judge Callahan, before the 2016 general election, two of her more senior colleagues on the Ninth Circuit — one a very liberal judge, and the other a very conservative judge (both of whom previously participated in this blog’s “20 questions for the appellate judge” feature) — circulated a jointly written letter to the other judges on that court stating that the collegial relationship among them should remain unchanged regardless of how the election turned out.

Judge Callahan, who herself is one of the more conservative judges on the Ninth Circuit, explained that in dissent she is frequently writing to attract the U.S. Supreme Court‘s attention. Judge Callahan humorously explained that when one of her dissents is ultimately vindicated at SCOTUS, she often patiently waits by the phone to receive acknowledgement from one of her colleagues (or anyone else) that her view of the case was correct, but that call never comes, and eventually things return back to normal for her.