“Bush vs. Gore’s ironic legal legacy”: Law professor Jamie Raskin has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Court to decide whether Islam-education order went too far”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “After a landlord was convicted of pushing her Muslim tenant down a flight of stairs, a judge ordered her to respect the rights of all Muslims and to take an introductory course on Islam. Now the highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide whether the judge violated the landlord’s constitutional rights.”

The case is scheduled to be argued on January 8, 2016 in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. You can access the parties’ briefs via the court’s docket entries for the case.

“Trump hits Scalia over comments on black students”: CNN.com has this report.

And Ryan J. Reilly of The Huffington Post reports that “Donald Trump Thinks Scalia’s Comments On Black Students Went Too Far; Antonin Scalia suggested last week that black students may benefit from a ‘slower-track school.’”

“Lynn Nakamoto first Asian-American on Oregon Supreme Court”: Gordon Friedman recently had this article in The Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon.

“2 Supreme Court cases to determine fate of Arizona legislative map”: Jeremy Duda of The Arizona Capitol Times has this report.

“A life well ended: Dr. Peter Rasmussen, who advocated for Oregon’s Death with Dignity law, died at home, in peace, surrounded by loved ones.” Saerom Yoo has this front page article in today’s edition of The Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon.

“Rubio Pledges To Appoint Supreme Court Justices Who Will Overturn Marriage Equality”: Judd Legum of ThinkProgress has this post today.

“Justice Stephen Breyer On What The Court Does Behind Closed Doors, And Hamilton”: NPR Politics has posted online this podcast, in which Ron Elving, Nina Totenberg, and Ailsa Chang interview Justice Stephen G. Breyer.

The online description of the podcast begins, “One of the members of the nation’s highest court dropped by the NPR Politics Podcast last week for a wide-ranging conversation about the inner workings of the Supreme Court, and Washington, changing global realities and why he loved the musical Hamilton.”

“For black students at Texas, Supreme Court remarks are a burden added”: Molly Hennessy-Fiske of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

NBCNews.com has posted an op-ed by Ivory A. Toldson titled “Why Justice Scalia was Wrong about Black Scientists.”

And online at The Daily Beast, Jay Michaelson has an essay titled “Affirmative Action May Be Doomed — But It’s Already a Confused Mess; This week’s Supreme Court arguments cast a harsh light on the confused jurisprudence of using race as a factor in college admissions; Forty years of compromises have created a gigantic mess.”

“Eakin must resign: A justice’s raunchy emails are supremely offensive.” Today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains an editorial that begins, “Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin did the wrong thing when he played to the lowest common denominator, exchanging obscene and offensive emails while holding a position of honor on the state’s highest court.”