“Is Harvard Unfair to Asian-Americans?” Yascha Mounk will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“David Lat’s Supreme Ambitions“: Ilya Somin has posted this book review online today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Do we need the Supreme Court to sort out our ‘Choose Life’ dispute?” The News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina today has a blog post that begins, “The legal dispute over North Carolina’s ‘Choose Life’ specialty plate could be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

“Priests for Life Vow to Appeal Mandate Decision to U.S. Supreme Court; The government’s ‘opt-out’ does not allow us to exercise our religious freedom”: Fr. Frank Pavone has this essay online.

“HHS’s Burwell: Obamacare challenge before Supreme Court won’t succeed.” Tom Howell Jr. of The Washington Times has this news update.

“The Supreme Court Justices All Went to the Same Ivy League Schools. So What?” Anthony Franze has this essay online today at The New Republic.

“Why Pacer should (and should not) be like Edgar”: Brian Browdie has this report online today at Quartz.

“HLS Library Book Talk | Laurence Tribe: ‘Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution.'” Harvard Law School posted this video online today at YouTube.

“Obama Foes Need Laws or Impeachment in Immigration Fight”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Re: Hijinks in the Ninth Circuit Clerk’s Office.” Ed Whelan has this follow-up post today at the “Bench Memos” blog of National Review Online.

“Governor names top Obama administration lawyer to California Supreme Court”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has an update that begins, “Defying convention again in his picks for the California Supreme Court, Gov. Jerry Brown has decided to name a top Obama administration lawyer to a vacancy that has been lingering since early this year.”

Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has a news update headlined “Brown to nominate African American woman to California Supreme Court.”

The Sacramento Bee has a blog post titled “Jerry Brown names Obama administration lawyer to California Supreme Court.”

Dan Levine of Reuters reports that “African-American prosecutor named to California Supreme Court.”

Profiles of nominee Leondra Kruger appeared at both WSJ.com’s “Law Blog” and “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times” in August 2010 when she was named acting principal deputy solicitor general in the U.S. Department of Justice.

The official news release announcing the nomination that California’s Governor’s office issued today is titled “Governor Brown Selects Leondra R. Kruger for California Supreme Court.”

“Justices of the PA & U.S. Supreme Courts: Losing Civility?” The episode of The American Law Journal television program that I taped several weeks ago will air on TV tonight and is now available online via YouTube at this link.

Among the guests interviewed in studio, in addition to me, were law professor Garrett Epps, journalist Gina Passarella, and attorney J. Freedley Hunsicker, Jr. Video featuring comments from additional noteworthy guests — including Lynn Marks of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts; law professor Kermit Roosevelt; and former U.S. District Judge Edward N. Cahn — also appears during the broadcast.

“Ex-Steelers player eyes Pennsylvania high court”: The Associated Press has this report.

Answer in opposition to Third Circuit rehearing petitions filed today: One of the tasks I perform least frequently as an appellate attorney is drafting and filing answers in opposition to rehearing petitions filed in federal appellate courts.

Today, however, I filed such an answer in opposition. It came in an appeal in which my client prevailed before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on October 17, 2014 by a 2-to-1 vote.

You can access the panel’s opinion at this link. You can access the two rehearing petitions the defendants filed here and here. You can access the order requesting a response, which issued two Thursdays ago when I was in Dallas, at this link. And you can access my client’s answer in opposition, filed today, at this link.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: Eric Schnapper (Part three).” You can access the video online at this link.

“Women still have a long way to go in judiciary”: Bob Egelko has this article in today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.

“Hacker threatens ‘bombshell’ after Ottawa city websites attacked”: The Toronto Globe and Mail has a news update that begins, “A hacker who took down several official websites in Ottawa during the weekend, including those of the municipality, the local police and the Supreme Court of Canada, is threatening further actions Monday.”

“New 10 Commandments monument being built after first monument smashed”: The Associated Press has this report from Oklahoma City.

“Here Are All The Cases Of Sexual Harassment Thrown Out Because Of One Supreme Court Decision”: Bryce Covert of ThinkProgress has this report today.

“In Justices’ Calculations on Gay Marriage, a Legal Golden Ratio Looms”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Dear Eleventh Circuit: Please don’t ‘football fire’ Judge Mark Fuller, just fire him.” Columnist Kyle Whitmire has this essay online at AL.com.

“The Maverick — A Biographical Sketch of Judge Richard Posner: Part I.” Ronald K.L. Collins has this post today at “Concurring Opinions.”

“The Great Paper Caper: Someone swiped Justice Frankfurter’s papers; What else has gone missing?” Jill Lepore has this article in the December 1, 2014 issue of The New Yorker.

“In Social-Media Era, When Is Free Speech Illegal? Top Court to Decide Whether Threats on Facebook Break Law.” Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

“In Partisan Washington, Health Law Faces Grave Legal Technicalities”: John Harwood has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.