“After Months of Delay, Senate Confirms Tenth Circuit Nominee Unanimously”: Todd Ruger has this post at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Access parts four and five of Brandi Grissom’s six-part series in The Texas Tribune “exploring the intersections of the mental health and criminal justice systems in Texas”: Part four is headlined “Andre Thomas: Gaps in a 30-Year-Old Mental Health Code,” while part five is headlined “Andre Thomas: Struggling to Maintain Sanity In Prison.”

My earlier coverage of the series can be accessed here, here, and here.

“Bork: Nixon offered next high court vacancy in ’73.” The Associated Press has this report.

“Roe v Wade: 40 Years On. . . The Legal History & Future of Reproductive Rights.” Some careful readers may recall that recently I was involved in a taping of an episode of The American Law Journal television show. The program is scheduled for broadcast tonight, and it can be viewed online, on-demand at this link.

“Court takes up question of arrestee DNA sampling”: Jesse J. Holland of The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Butt v. Utah“: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Would-Be Federal Judges Face The Washington Waiting Game”: Carrie Johnson will have this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“D.C. Circuit Appears Skeptical of FCC in Tennis Channel Case”: Mike Scarcella has this post today at “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.”

Update: In other coverage, Reuters reports that “Court grills FCC, Tennis Channel in Comcast discrimination suit.”

“Obama Justice Department Won’t Disclose Number Of Classified OLC Opinions”: Ryan J. Reilly of The Huffington Post has this report.

“St Joe investors lose in court; Einhorn had shorted stock”: Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

“Alabama will not challenge ban on collecting immigration information from students”: The Huntsville Times has a news update that begins, “The State of Alabama will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on its efforts to collect immigration information on public school students, Alabama Solicitor General John Neiman said this morning.”

“Does the Fourth Amendment still fit the 21st Century?” Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online today at the ABA Journal’s “Law News Now” blog.

“Justice laments prosecutor’s racially charged question”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has a report that begins, “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday condemned racially charged language used by a federal prosecutor in Texas.”

Update: In other coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Sotomayor criticizes prosecutor for racial remark.”

“Ted Talks: Why Sen. Ted Cruz gets rewarded for saying a lot of things that no one would take seriously anywhere else.” David Weigel has this essay online at Slate.

The essay contains a discussion of some of the cases that U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued at the U.S. Supreme Court when he served as Solicitor General of Texas.

“Argentina Bets on Skeptical U.S. Judges to Avoid Crisis”: Bloomberg News has this report.

“Harvard Law Review Increases Online Presence”: This article appears today in The Harvard Crimson.

“So Open It Hurts: What the Internet did to Aaron Swartz.” Noam Scheiber has this cover story in the March 11, 2013 issue of The New Republic.

Sixth Circuit rejects Freedom from Religion Foundation’s claim that the City of Warren, Michigan must add a “Winter Solstice” sign criticizing religious belief to the city’s pre-Christmas holiday display of secular and religious symbols: Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton wrote today’s opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

“Will the Supreme Court Open the Door to Voter Discrimination?” Adam Cohen has this essay online today at the web site of Time magazine.

“Money Managers: The justices might not be done ruining our campaign finance system.” Michael Tomasky has this essay online today at The Daily Beast.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: The Court has posted today’s Order List at this link. The Court granted review in two new cases.

In addition, Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a statement, in which Justice Stephen G. Breyer joined, respecting the denial of certiorari in Calhoun v. United States, No. 12-6142.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “High court to review Kansas sheriff’s killing“; “Court won’t hear campaign contributions appeal“; and “Court nixes Va. appeal in case of low IQ inmate.”

Reuters reports that “U.S. justices agree to weigh defendant’s self-incrimination claim“; “Supreme Court to hear claim over withdrawn guilty plea“; and “U.S. justices decline to hear campaign finance case.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Clinton Backers Rejected by High Court on Campaign Charge.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court grants two cases.”

“In Maryland, five wait on death row”: This article appears today in The Washington Post.

“FBI cyberwar’s poor aim: Swartz case a sorry use of resources.” Rachelle G. Cohen has this op-ed today in The Boston Herald.

“Shame in the family: Justice Joan Orie Melvin needs to resign her seat.” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette contains this editorial today.

“Can escape clause save voting rights provision?” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“DNA and the Constitution”: This editorial will appear Monday in The New York Times.

“Generic-Drugs Ruling Stirs Backlash”: In Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Palazzolo will have an article that begins, “Business groups are urging Alabama’s highest court to reconsider its recent ruling that name-brand drug makers can be held liable for injuries caused by the generic versions of their products.”

You can freely access the full text of the article via Google News.

“Case law precedent murky on prayer before government meetings”: Today’s edition of The Rapid City (S.D.) Journal contains an article that begins, “The legal case against prayer at government meetings isn’t nearly as clear-cut as the Freedom From Religion Foundation would have Rapid City officials believe.”

“‘Blessed’ Sotomayor wins against-all-odds journey”: Brenlee Carrington had this book review in yesterday’s edition of The Winnipeg Free Press.

“Anti-communist oaths persist despite court rulings”: The Associated Press has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over Md. DNA case; Justices’ decision will have national implications on future crime-fighting procedures”: This article will appear Monday in The Baltimore Sun.

And in Monday’s edition of USA Today, Richard Wolf will have an article headlined “High court’s DNA case pits crime solving vs. privacy.”

“Welcome to the blogosphere Judge Richard Kopf via ‘Hercules and the Umpire'”: Douglas A. Berman has this post today at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog about a new blog titled “Hercules and the Umpire,” written by Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Judge Kopf at a few events sponsored by the Eighth Circuit that I have attended. His blog’s first post, explaining the motiviation and title of the blog, is very much worth a look.

“Time to change the way top judges get their jobs”: Today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer contains an editorial that begins, “With its conviction of a member of the state’s highest court on election campaign corruption charges, a Pittsburgh-area jury on Thursday, in effect, issued a parallel indictment of the way Pennsylvania voters pick their top judges.”

Over eleven years ago, the installment of my “Upon Further Review” column published in The Legal Intelligencer on Monday, September 10, 2001 was titled “Pennsylvania Should Keep, But Reform, Its System Of Electing Appellate Judges.”

“Servant of the Law: The experience, and good sense, of Robert Bork.” In the March 4, 2013 issue of The Weekly Standard, Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has this review of Robert H. Bork’s new book, “Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General.”

And speaking of Judge Wilkinson, yesterday at the blog “washslaw,” law professor Kevin C. Walsh had a post titled “Some JHW III for AMK and others re: same-sex marriage and indulging ‘the impulse to constitutionalize.’”

“Justices poised to query voting rights focus on South”: Joan Biskupic of Reuters has this report.