“Supreme Court Lines up Potentially ‘Explosive’ Election Year Docket”: This segment (transcript with link to video) featuring Marcia Coyle and Jeff Schesol appeared on this evening’s broadcast of The PBS NewsHour.

“Elena Kagan recusal judged on the blogs”: This article appears at Politico.com.

“Reality check: States tough on abortion face legal costs.” Reuters has this report.

“Supreme Court justice to visit”: The Pacific Daily News of Guam has an update that begins, “U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor plans to make a trip to the Marianas next month. One of the main reasons she’s visiting from Jan. 25 to 30 is to attend Guam’s and the Northern Mariana Islands’ 2012 District Conferences.”

“Chef Supreme: New cookbook honors late husband of Justice Ginsburg.” Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court won’t review statutory rape case”: Today’s edition of The Newark (Ohio) Advocate contains an article that begins, “The U.S. Supreme Court won’t review an Ohio Supreme Court decision that eliminated statutory rape charges for children younger than 13.”

“Utah teen may face criminal charges in abortion beating case; Utah Supreme Court says state’s abortion statute doesn’t include ‘procedures’ like a beating-for-hire”: The Salt Lake Tribune has this news update.

And The Deseret News has an update headlined “Utah Supreme Court: Teenager who paid for assault in hope of abortion liable.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah at this link.

“Supreme Court an ‘enormous issue’ for 2012”: Josh Gerstein has this article online at Politico.com.

“Conn. home invasion killers close by on death row”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Top Courts Value the Attorney-Client Privilege Differently”: Traditionally, a new U.S. Supreme Court Justice’s first opinion for the Court is supposed to be unanimous and noncontroversial.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s first majority opinion, which issued in December 2009, was nearly unanimous, but it has proved to be at least somewhat controversial. Indeed, only last month the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision reaching the opposite result.

This month’s installment of my monthly “Upon Further Review” column appears in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s daily newspaper for lawyers, and addresses the subject of this disagreement. You can access my column by clicking here.

“Supreme Court Can’t Dodge Health Care Law’s Fate Under Bill From GOP Lawmaker”: Mike Sacks and John Celock of The Huffington Post have this report.

“Courtside: An early (and accidental) peek at today’s orders and opinions.” Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal had this article (PDF) online yesterday. Both this blog and Mike Sacks of The Huffington Post are mentioned in the article.

“The Roberts Court v. America: How the Roberts Supreme Court is using the First Amendment to craft a radical, free-market jurisprudence.” Law professor Jedediah Purdy has this essay (available online in both PDF and HTML formats) in the Winter 2012 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

Access online the video of this morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Ninth Circuit nominee Paul J. Watford: You can access the video by clicking here.

“Michigan’s Balkanizing Bottle Redemption Law Treads on Commerce Clause”: Cory Andrews has this post today at “The Legal Pulse” blog of the Washington Legal Foundation.

“Health care case adds pressure for cameras in Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic has this article today in USA Today.

“Appeals panel hears new science about arsons that could free man”: Emilie Lounsberry has this article today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.