“Justice for Our Daughter Christa; Message to Italy: We don’t seek the death penalty for Lee Gilley.” Chris and Sharon Bauer have this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The Death Penalty Has Become a Torture Machine; Christa Pike’s botched lethal injection proves there is no humane form of execution”: Jeet Heer has this essay online at The Nation.

“‘So Ordered’ Review: A Practical Originalist; Pundits and academics theorizing about Justice Samuel Alito’s aims would profit from reading his speeches on the law.” Columnist Barton Swaim has this book review online at The Wall Street Journal.

And Devin Dwyer of ABC News reports on the book in an article headlined “Alito calls same-sex marriage a ‘decisive’ turn ‘against religious liberty’ in new book; In a new book, the Supreme Court justice reflects on his ‘pet issue’ of faith.”

“Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Alito Is Gambling on Outliving His Critics”: Ed Kilgore has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“Justice Alito Speaks Out on Media Harassment and Why the Rules Still Matter; The author of Dobbs sits down with National Review”: Dan McLaughlin has part one of his interview online at National Review.

“Justice Alito ‘amused and puzzled’ by false retirement report; Alito, one of the court’s most conservative justices, told USA Today he wondered how many people were ‘crest-fallen’ when they realized he’s not retiring”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report, along with an article headlined “Courting controversy: Alito on religion, racism and big Supreme Court moments.”

“Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric”: Lindsay Whitehurst of The Associated Press has this report.

“Justice Alito: Lower courts haven’t ‘gotten the message’ on affirmative action, guns.” Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times have this report, along with an article headlined "Justice Alito: Supreme Court isn’t using AI; Bush appointee says AI is ‘pretty formidable.’”

“Trump Approves Plan to Put Fort Hood Shooter to Death by Firing Squad; Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 by a jury of fellow officers at the Texas Army base”: Anne Flaherty of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Girl asks Supreme Court to block Wash. state rules allowing trans athletes; The high court has upheld bans on transgender athletes on girls’ and women’s sports teams; It has not said whether states can allow them to participate”: Julian Mark of The Washington Post has this report.

You can access the court filing at this link.

“Boulder Gives Away Its Climate Game in the Suncor Case; There’s no limiting principle to its suit on harm from CO2”: This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“University of Texas asks Fifth Circuit to unblock campus speech law; A Texas law passed in the wake of large-scale pro-Palestinian protests requires universities to ban all speech between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. and to restrict expressive activities during the last two weeks of term”: Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Trump administration continues to try to ban international students from attending Harvard; In an appeals hearing, Harvard urged judges to not let the administration set a ‘hugely dangerous precedent’”: Michaela Towfighi of The Boston Globe has this report.

Sebastian B. Connolly and Summer E. Rose of The Harvard Crimson report that “Government Lawyer Says Trump Likely to Reissue Ban on Harvard’s International Students if Court Order Lifted.”

Nina Pullano of Courthouse News Service reports that “Harvard fights DHS attempt to restore foreign student ban; The Trump administration claimed the sanction was punishment for Harvard leadership failing to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests and for failing to provide foreign student visa data that the university says it wasn’t required to maintain.”

And Brian Dowling of Bloomberg Law reports that “Trump Wants New Harvard Foreign Student Ban, DOJ Tells Court.”

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit at this link.

“The Oligarchy’s Bench: Ten Federal Judges Rewriting the American Economy.” Demand Justice and Groundwork Collaborative have posted this report online today.

“Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks; The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said”: Glenn Thrush of The New York Times has this report.

“Christa Pike Regains Consciousness After Her Failed Execution; The death row inmate in Tennessee received two doses of a lethal injection drug last week, but lived; She was taken from the execution chamber in an ambulance”: Emily Cochrane of The New York Times has this report.

And Brady Dennis, Katie Mettler, and Mark Berman of The Washington Post report that “Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after failed execution, attorneys say; Tennessee tried and failed to execute her by lethal injection last week. She remains hospitalized.”

“The Supreme Court’s Shattered Precedents Are Coming Back to Haunt It”: Law professor Aaron Tang has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Pauline Newman Disability Probe Transferred to Eleventh Circuit”: Michael Shapiro of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access).

You can view today’s order disclosing the proceeding at this link.

“Judge’s active role at PR firm prompts ethics complaint from senators; Democratic Sens. Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester are calling out Judge Jennifer Mascott for actively managing a Washington public affairs firm while on the bench”: Daniel Barnes and Jacob Wendler of Politico have this report.

You can access the judicial misconduct complained at this link.

“Oil Companies Are Begging the Supreme Court to Let Them Off the Hook For Climate Change; State courts might be the last, best hope for holding polluters accountable”: Madiba K. Dennie has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“Lurching Through The Audition Trap; Do we reward judges who audition or who refuse to audition?” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Justice Scalia’s originalist gambit”: Steven Gow Calabresi has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Zombie Originalism: Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.” Law professor Jack Goldsmith has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“What Is Originalism? | Interview: Sherif Girgis.” You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“Justice Samuel Alito on Originalism, ‘Speechifying’ Colleagues, and Media Caricatures”: Wall Street Journal Opinion has posted this video on YouTube.

“Mail Order Abortion Pill at Stake as Red States Go to High Court”: Ian Lopez of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court’s Alito Says a Democratic Senate Win Won’t Prompt Quick Retirement”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Gift to Trump”: Jeffrey Toobin has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense; Justice Alito‘s new book purports to answer the Court’s shadow docket critics — by rebutting a caricature and by ignoring the ways in which his own behavior has contradicted nearly every claim he makes.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“Two prosecutors said if Philly DA Larry Krasner doesn’t retract ‘untrue’ court filings, they will quit; Katherine Ernst and Steven Wildberger said Krasner made a series of “misstatements” about them. Krasner denied that and said the duo has been insubordinate”: Chris Palmer and Ellie Rushing of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“Fifth Circuit wrestles with constitutionality of warrantless Flock searches; The government argues that public actions captured by Flock cameras aren’t subject to the Fourth Amendment”: Christina van Waasbergen of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“The Epstein law was a historic mistake; The measure failed to expose the promised sex-trafficking ring — and did a lot of collateral damage”: Ankush Khardori has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“This Supreme Court case is much bigger than oil and gas; Local emissions rules shouldn’t be used to shake down companies for conduct occurring elsewhere”: Michael Toth has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“I Know Christa Pike’s Medical History. What Tennessee Did Is Unforgivable.” Joel Zivot has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“When Can You Sue if Your 401(k) Underperforms? Investors sought to hedge risk and got lower returns; Now the Supreme Court will hear their case.” Jay Rogers will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.