“What’s with all the devil talk? Thanks to Scalia and C.S. Lewis, Satan is casting a larger shadow on our culture.” Tom Krattenmaker has this op-ed today in USA Today.

“Presidential nominations are still no slam dunks”: Politico.com has this report.

“Oil Spill Judge ‘Deeply Disappointed’ in BP”: Paul M. Barrett of Bloomberg Businessweek has this report.

“Court Confronts Religious Rights of Corporations”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Chevron Assails Lawyer Who Led Multibillion-Dollar Suit Against It”: This article appeared in last Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Businesses Wary as Obama Picks Get Edge in Senate Rules”: Greg Stohr and Mark Drajem of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Supreme Court to decide whether to tackle religious liberty, contraception mandate”: This article appears today in The Deseret News.

“Custody Battle Raises Questions About the Rights of Women”: Erik Eckholm has this article today in The New York Times.

“Life’s Work: Sandra Day O’Connor.” This interview appears in the December 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.

“U.S. air pollution authority faces Supreme Court tests”: Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici of Reuters have this news analysis.

“Filibuster vote raises stakes for 2014”: Politico.com has this report.

The Hill reports that “Filibuster lifts White House mood.”

And at his “Jost On Justice” blog, Kenneth Jost has a post titled “On Filibusters, Democrats Won’t Be Fooled Again.”

“Under the U.S. Supreme Court: The legal attack on the NSA.” Michael Kirkland of UPI has this report.

“The ‘nuclear option,’ the Senate Judiciary Committee and no bozos”: Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf has this post today at his “Hercules and the Umpire” blog.

“When JFK Died, A Law Clerk’s Youthful Idealism Died With Him”: Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz has this post at WBUR Radio’s “Cognoscenti” blog.

“Easton boobies case may follow bong hits to Supreme Court; Legal battle may follow ‘bong hits’ to Supreme Court”: Peter Hall will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call.

“Supreme Court gets ‘sensitive’ jobs plea”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post.

“White House, allies weigh nomination strategy under new Senate rules”: The Washington Post has an article that begins, “The White House and its allies are formulating ways to take maximum advantage of this week’s change in the Senate’s filibuster rules to rapidly confirm more than 240 judicial and executive nominees awaiting approval.”

“Baby Veronica: Cherokees blast Capobiancos’ effort to recover legal fees; The tribe says it has sovereign immunity from being required to pay the lawyers.” This article appears in today’s edition of The Tulsa World.

“Guantanamo prisoner makes video-link plea for his freedom”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report.

“SCOTUSblog on camera: J. Harvie Wilkinson, III — Part two.” “SCOTUSblog” posted this video online yesterday, part two of an eight-part interview.

“A Spur in the Filibuster Fight: A Court’s Workload and Politics.” Adam Liptak will have this news analysis in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Judge reinstates fired Inquirer editor”: The Philadelphia Inquirer has this news update.

And The New York Times has a news update headlined “Judge Orders Reinstatement of Ousted Philadelphia Inquirer Editor.”

“Partisan Fever in Senate Likely to Rise”: Jonathan Weisman has this news analysis in today’s edition of The New York Times. The newspaper also contains an editorial titled “Democracy Returns to the Senate.”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin has an article headlined “Move to Rein In Filibusters Likely to Deepen Split in Courts; Simple-Majority Vote on Judicial Confirmations Paves Way for More-Ideological Nominees.”

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “How new Senate filibuster rule could change balance of power on courts: There are 18 vacancies on federal appeals courts nationwide, but perhaps most significantly, the new Senate filibuster rule allows Obama and Democrats to fill three seats on the D.C. Circuit, the nation’s second most powerful court.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has an article headlined “In the post-nuclear landscape, uncharted terrain.” Politico also has an article headlined “Tom Udall, Jeff Merkley clock ‘nuclear’ win.”

Michael Doyle of McClatchy Washington Bureau has an article headlined “New Senate rules won’t cure all the delay and disharmony.”

Yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered” contained audio segments titled “Federal Bench Could See New Faces After Senate Rules Change” and “Senate Democrats Go ‘Nuclear’ To Curb Filibusters.” And today’s broadcast of “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment titled “Senate Democrats, After Threats, Detonate ‘Nuclear Option.’”

Yesterday’s broadcast of The PBS NewsHour contained a segment titled “‘Nuclear option’ to clear way for federal nominations inflames debate.”

Online at The New Yorker, Hendrik Hertzberg has a blog post titled “The Senate’s Nuclear (Power) Option.”

And online at Slate, Emily Bazelon has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Filibuster Had to Be Killed; How the Republican minority had turned it into an obscene weapon for obstructionism, delay, and political mischief.”

“New trial ordered over Charlotte teen’s Taser death”: The Charlotte Observer has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court has tossed out a more than $6 million award to the family of a North Carolina teenager who died after being shocked with a Taser.”

You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

“When the Swing Justice Doesn’t Swing: Rumors of Anthony Kennedy as a moderate on abortion are wildly overblown.” Law professor David S. Cohen has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Shhh, Republicans May Like Filibuster Reform”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

And online at Slate, law professor Eric Posner has an essay titled “Centrists Should Mourn the Demise of the Filibuster; Only the extremists win — and in the end, mostly the Republicans.”

In today’s mail: I received a copy of law professor Robert Blecker‘s new book, “The Death of Punishment: Searching for Justice among the Worst of the Worst.”

As noted in this post from Tuesday, Blecker — whose law school bio describes him as “a nationally known retributivist advocate of the death penalty” — appeared that day on WNYC Radio’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” to promote the book. You can access the audio segment via this link.

“Alex Kozinski and Marcy Tiffany file no-nonsense objection to class-action settlement”: Brian Wolfman has this post today at Public Citizen’s “Consumer Law & Policy Blog.”

“Appeals court won’t toss NYC stop-frisk rulings”: The Associated Press has this report on an interesting per curiam opinion that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Illinois Supreme Court tosses Department of Revenue’s tax-collection rules; Justices don’t say point-of-purchase practice violates laws, or what tax policy should be; issue ‘well suited for the General Assembly'”: Ameet Sachdev has this article today in The Chicago Tribune.

And The Chicago Sun-Times reports that “Illinois Supreme Court rules to close sales tax loopholes.”

You can access yesterday;s ruling of the Supreme Court of Illinois at this link.

Access online the fourth and final episode of Pennsylvania Cable Network’s “Courts 101 with Justice Stevens”: According to PCN’s description of last night’s broadcast, “On this episode, Justice Stevens discusses the difference between being elected as a judge and being appointed as a Justice, technology in the court during high profiles cases, the differences between the courts and much more.” You can view last night’s episode by clicking here.

The video of the previous three episodes can be accessed via this link.

“‘Nuclear option’ advances nomination of Metro East figure to powerful court”: Bill Lambrecht of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article that begins, “Patricia Millett’s confirmation to the court that ranks behind only the Supreme Court in influence appeared certain after Senate Democrats’ extraordinary tactics Thursday to curb filibusters of White House appointments.”

“The Filibuster’s Demise Is Great News for Judicial Confirmation Hearings; Knowing obstruction was an option, senators have long had pillow fights with nominees; That’s almost certainly going to change”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“HIV-disclosure law sparks unique legal battle in Florida”: David Ovalle of The Miami Herald has this report.

“Wash. court says gun limits OK before conviction”: The Associated Press has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s 5-to-4 Washington State Supreme Court ruling appears at this link.