“Supreme Court Prayer Ruling Shows Shift in Church-State Barriers; Decision Could Accelerate Trend of Court’s Interest in Protecting Religious Expression”: Jess Bravin has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And yesterday at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog,” Bravin had a post titled “State Churches? Justice Clarence Thomas Hears the Call.”

“Court: Privacy Outweighs Public Interest in Dispute Over Cell Tracking Records.” At “The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times,” Zoe Tillman has this post reporting on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

And The Associated Press reports that “Court sides with US in cell-tracking records case.”

“Same-sex marriage opponents invoke Justice Kennedy”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“The Confrontation Clause — again, and again”: Lyle Denniston has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“At issue in this case is a law passed by the government of Puerto Rico to obtain information about the owners of prepaid cell phones.” So begins a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday.