You can elect judges who have a flat head: “Flathead Judges Amy Eddy and Dan Wilson Face Off in Montana Supreme Court Race; The Flathead County District Court judges in northwest Montana have outlined contrasting judicial philosophies over the court’s role in the nonpartisan race” reports Maggie Dresser of The Flathead Beacon.

“‘Be really open and receptive to new experiences’; Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar ’08 recounts her law career, Supreme Court interactions, and Harvard years”: Colleen Walsh of Harvard Law Today has this report.

“A Blockbuster-Era Law Won’t Save Your Privacy”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“A Texan-Led Movement to Tear Down the Church-State Wall Is Going National; Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions; Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide”: Robert Downen has this article in the November 2026 issue of Texas Monthly.

“Michigan’s U.S. Senate race will decide the Supreme Court’s future; Michigan’s U.S. Senate election could determine whether Donald Trump freely reshapes the federal judiciary, or hits limits on who reaches the bench”: Law professor Samuel R. Bagenstos and David B. Jaffe recently had this essay online at The Detroit Free Press.

“Samuel Alito Has Strong Feelings About Statues Honoring Long-Dead Genocide Perpetrators; All it takes for Alito to care about the denigration of the immigrant experience is the removal of an old Christopher Columbus statue from a city park”: Jay Willis has this post at his “Balls & Strikes” Substack site.

“How Pete Hegseth’s Plan for a Reality-TV Execution Imploded; Trump is fine with a military execution by firing squad, just not with putting it on YouTube”: Missy Ryan and Vivian Salama have this article online at The Atlantic.

“Mapping Mississippi White: Bennie Thompson’s trailblazing career came after the success of the Voting Rights Act and could end with its fall.” Jeffrey Toobin has this article in the November 2026 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Why Nathan Fielder’s ‘You Can See Everything’ Left Us Reeling”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Hard Fork” podcast from The New York Times on YouTube.

Relatedly, at his “Read Max” site, Max Read has a post titled “‘You Can See Everything’ is a secret history of the tech industry” (caution — contains spoilers with spoiler-warning).

And at the “cc: helmet girl” Substack site, Sam Bodrojan has a post titled “‘You Can See Everything’ Is A Film About Feminism; A spoiler-free review of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s hybrid portrait of Elizabeth Holmes.”

“Conservative super-lawyer squares up for his latest Supreme Court argument”: Carrie Johnson of NPR has this report.

“Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected; For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges; But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned”: Jeremy Kohler of ProPublica has this report.

“James Ho Ponders Auditions, Ambitions, and the Crushing Meaninglessness of Human Existence; The Fifth Circuit’s most embarrassing try-hard can feel his shot at the Supreme Court slipping away; So he blogged about it”: Jay Willis has this essay online at Balls and Strikes.

“11th Circuit resumes Georgia limits on minors’ social media use; Lobbyist group NetChoice argued the law infringes on the free speech of tech giants”: Megan Butler of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access today’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

“Trump Cancels Planned Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution; The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan”: Katie Rogers, Tyler Pager, John Ismay, and Greg Jaffe of The New York Times have this report.

And Dan Lamothe and Tara Copp of The Washington Post report that “Trump cancels Hegseth’s plan to live-stream Fort Hood shooter’s execution; The decision is a rebuke of the defense secretary, who has remained in the president’s good graces through numerous controversies.”

“Slapping Down an Insubordinate Court; The Justices rebuke the Fourth Circuit for its election gamesmanship”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“How Claims of Widespread Noncitizen Voting Fall Apart”: Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Jeremy White, and Seamus Hughes of The New York Times have this report.

“$815.8M Benzene Verdict Against ExxonMobil Survives Pa. Appeals Court Challenge; Many of the company’s key arguments were waived because they had not been properly preserved at the trial court level, including attacks on causation and expert testimony, the majority said”: Riley Brennan of The Legal Intelligencer has this report.

Today’s decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania consists of an unpublished, non-precedential memorandum opinion and a concurring/dissenting statement.

“The Secrecy in Courts Dilemma”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast via this link and on YouTube.

“8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution of Fort Hood shooter; A slim majority of the public supports using a firing squad to execute Nidal Malik Hasan, but most are against broadcasting it, a Post-ABC-Ipsos poll finds”: Amy B Wang and Alauna Safarpour of The Washington Post have this report.

“A Houseboat Vacation and a Failed Courtship; How Sandra Day O’Connor made Reagan’s shortlist”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site.

“Bonus 257: Hard Questions About Court Expansion; Those who maintain that any Supreme Court reform *must* include Court expansion should have to answer some difficult questions about the precedent it would set and the effects it would produce.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.

“DC urges appeals court to end yearlong National Guard deployment in capital; In the 13 months since their deployment, patrolling troops have become a part of daily life in the District, with constant patrols and units stationed in metro stations and public spaces”: Ryan Knappenberger of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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

“Progressive Buyer’s Remorse; The left is rediscovering century-old arguments for crippling the Supreme Court”: Paul Moreno has this book review post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Ninth Circuit strikes down California ‘No Vigilantes Act’ as unconstitutional; The appellate panel found the California law is void insofar as it seeks to regulate the federal government without congressional authorization”: Edvard Pettersson of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access yesterday’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

“Appeals Court Debates Its Ability to Hear Immigration Challenge”: Olivia Alafriz of Bloomberg Law has this report.

You can access the audio of yesterday’s en banc oral argument of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

“Tillis mocked the Comey seashell prosecution. He OK’d Trump’s judicial nominees who worked on it. The North Carolina senator’s support is notable given his often-caustic relationship with the president.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

“11th Circuit sides with Florida over social media ban for minors; The federal appeals court decision bolsters the state’s ongoing battle against tech giants over children’s social media use”: Alex Pickett of Courthouse News Service has this report.

You can access yesterday’s decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

Circuit Judge Kevin C. Newsom wrote the decision, along with an interesting concurring opinion.

“Consumers take early lead in Supreme Court showdown over internet privacy; While the justices appeared open to allowing a Tennessee man’s lawsuit to move forward, it was unclear it would be successful in the long run”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Christopher Brown of Bloomberg Law reports that “Paramount Video Privacy Win in Doubt at SCOTUS Oral Argument.”

“The judge who accused DA Larry Krasner of potential crimes will not step back from the case; Krasner accused U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond of being biased against him. Diamond said aspects of Krasner’s filings were ‘frivolous’ and ‘intemperate’”: Chris Palmer of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

You can access today’s decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania at this link.

“Livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s Execution Is a Bad Idea; America did away with public hangings for a reason—and Hasan might want the attention”: Columnist Jason L. Riley will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And online at The New York Times, Phil Klay has a guest essay titled “Pete Hegseth’s Bloodlust Doesn’t Hide His Military Failures.”

“A Four-Step Plan to Rein In the Supreme Court”: Law professor Kate Shaw has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“DoJ’s Doomed Pursuit of Cassidy Hutchinson”: Elie Honig has this post online at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“Private Prosecutors: The Supreme Court says everyone who wields executive power must answer to the president; The False Claims Act remains, for now, an odd exception.” Cory L. Andrews has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The Establishment Clause at the Second Founding; The relevant time frame to best understand the Establishment Clause for state religion cases should be 1868, not 1791”: Josh Blackman has this post at Civitas Outlook.

“What Does ‘History and Tradition’ Require? The Court’s shift from Lemon to history and tradition raises a new set of interpretative challenges.” Mark David Hall has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.