“Grapes (and raisins) of wrath: Supreme Court may hear farm program cases.” Michael Doyle of McClatchy Newspapers has this report.

“Justice Alito, Citizens United and the Press”: This editorial will appear Tuesday in The New York Times.

“Judicial nominees sitting on sidelines; 19 vacancies have OK of Senate committee”: The Washington Times has this report.

“Senator-elect Cruz Paints Sharp Contrast Between Parties at Federalist Society”: Matthew Huisman has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Has the South Risen Above Racist Voting Laws? What the Voting Rights Act means today.” Emily Bazelon has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And in related news coverage, The Arizona Republic reports that “Ariz. seeks Supreme Court relief on Voting Rights Act; Ala. case may help state shed federal scrutiny.”

“In D.C. Circuit, Judge Calls Use of Acronyms ‘Painful'”: Mike Scarcella has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Court sympathetic to NRC over post-Fukushima reactor licensing”: Lawrence Hurley and Hannah Northey of Greenwire have this report.

“4th Circuit shedding conservative reputation”: Frank Green has this article today in The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Columnist for The (Newark) Star-Ledger writes that “If you’re looking for serious debates about cutting-edge legal issues, then you’ve got to bookmark the Volokh Conspiracy.” That statement appears at the start of columnist Paul Mulshine’s essay entitled “Are corporations persons? Ask the New York Times.”

“Judicial Elections, Unhinged”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains this editorial, along with an editorial entitled “Class-Based vs. Race-Based Admissions.”

“Ruling Soon on Isolation of Inmates With H.I.V.” This article appears today in The New York Times.

“At Federalist Society, Scalia Says He Doesn’t ‘Live or Die’ for Bill of Rights Cases”: Zoe Tillman has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

“Eureka College to honor former Supreme Court Justice O’Connor”: The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph has this report.

“Cal prosecutors seek to jump start death penalty”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Fixing Law Reviews”: John G. Browning has this essay online today at Inside Higher Ed.

“Passion for social justice leads Bridget McCormack to Michigan Supreme Court; McCormack rises from humble roots, faces conservative majority on panel”: The Detroit News has this report (link fixed).

“Atheists ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear case on ‘God’ in Kentucky law”: This article appears today in The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky.