“Unleash the high court”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“U.S. Court of Appeals removes federal judge from two cases, including Paul Bergrin’s trial”: The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey has this news update.

The Bergen County (N.J.) Record has a news update headlined “Case reassigned for former lawyer Paul Bergrin who is accused of murder.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court removes judge from NJ attorney’s murder case after government makes bias claim.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in the Bergrin case here and today’s ruling in the other case reassigned here.

“Ninth Circuit Issues Response on Circuit Conference”: Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski today sent this 13-page letter to the Ranking Members of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Budget Committees about the Ninth Circuit’s upcoming Judicial Conference in Maui, Hawaii.

A related statement from Circuit and Court of Appeals Executive Cathy A. Catterson can be accessed here.

“Ginsburg pokes fun at health care guessing game”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Politico.com reports that “On eve of health ruling, Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicts ‘sharp disagreement.’”

“Federal appeals court rules for Rumsfeld in Iraq torture suit”: James Vicini of Reuters has this report.

Pete Yost of The Associated Press reports that “Court rejects US citizen’s suit over detention.”

And at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Mike Scarcella has a post titled “D.C. Circuit Rejects U.S. Citizen’s Torture Suit.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Gupta appeal will be ‘very difficult,’ Holwell says”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report.

“McConnell decries efforts to undo ‘Citizens United'”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“The Thurmond Rule”: Today at the “Taking Note” blog of The New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal has a post that begins, “Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced this week that he is imposing a blockade on President Obama’s nominations to the circuit courts.”

“In Health Care Ruling, Vast Implications for Medicaid”: Robert Pear will have this article Saturday in The New York Times.

“Federal appeals court upholds one of longest prison sentences in Alameda County history”: Howard Mintz of The San Jose Mercury News has this update reporting on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“In second book, Scalia, Garner warn judicial decisions leading to ‘descent into social rancor'”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Carter honored for appointing women, African Americans to the federal bench”: This article appears today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Reading Scalia’s New Book for Hints on Health Care Ruling”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Montana — big sky, clean politics: Can the state preserve its limits on corporate money in elections?” Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock has this op-ed today in The Los Angeles Times.

“In New Book, Scalia and Garner Attack Unprincipled Judicial Opinions”: Tony Mauro has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Supreme Court Justice Speaks at American Constitution Society Conference”: As noted here, C-SPAN intends to provide live coverage at 6 p.m. eastern time this evening.

“Pelosi confident court will back health care law”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “Uninsured Angst Swells on U.S. Health Ruling.”

“9th Circuit backs California laws against one-stop eyewear stores”: Denny Walsh and Sam Stanton have this article today in The Sacramento Bee.

My earlier coverage of Wednesday’s Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

“Trial lawyers, anti-abortion group stymie judicial-selection bill”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an article that begins, “Only weeks after the indictment of State Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin on campaign-finance law violations, a legislative bid to end the partisan election of appellate judges has come to an abrupt halt because of opposition by trial lawyers, anti-abortion activists, and others.”

“Supreme Court mulls revisiting state campaign spending restrictions”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

“John Roberts’ Memoranda re: the Intercircuit Tribunal Proposal (1983).” Law professor Kyle Graham has this post at his blog, “noncuratlex.com.”