“Supreme Court To Return To 1984 Case Involving Prosecutor Misconduct”: Carrie Johnson had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.”

“NC lawmakers create partisan election process for courts that review their laws”: In today’s edition of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, Anne Blythe has an article that begins, “A law approved Friday by state lawmakers, and quickly signed by Gov. Pat McCrory in the waning days of his administration, changes the election process for the state Supreme Court that provides a check on the other two branches of government.”

“Imperial stubs out plans for Supreme Court battle on tobacco packaging rules”: Jillian Ambrose of The Telegraph (UK) has this report.

“The Prenda Saga Goes Criminal: Steele and Hansmeier Indicted On Federal Charges.” Ken White has this post at “Popehat.”

Erica Orden of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Two Lawyers Indicted in Connection With Fraudulent Lawsuits; Paul Hansmeier and John Steele would upload pornographic films, sue people who illegally downloaded them, indictment says.”

Mike Masnick of Techdirt has a post titled “Team Prenda Finally Goes To Jail: Hansmeier & Steele Indicted & Arrested.”

And Rhett Jones of Gizmodo has a post titled “Lawyers Accused of Extorting $6 Million From Porn Pirates in Elaborate Scam.”

“The Emoluments Clause: Its text, meaning, and application to Donald J. Trump.” Norman Eisen and law professors Richard Painter and Laurence H. Tribe (with the assistance of Joshua Matz) have posted this paper online at the Brookings Institution.

“SCOTUS Term Limits in the Next Congress”: Eric Segall and Gabe Roth have this post today at “Dorf on Law.”

“Judicial Departmentalism: An Introduction.” Law professor Kevin C. Walsh has posted this essay online at SSRN (via “Legal Theory Blog“).

“Oregon’s jury system designed to ‘dampen’ voice of minorities, judge rules”: In today’s edition of The Oregonian, Aimee Green has a front page article that begins, “A Portland judge Thursday declined to grant a new trial to a 33-year-old African American man despite his argument that he didn’t get a fair trial because only one of 12 jurors was black — and the juror’s vote ultimately didn’t count.”