“Lawsuit threatens to upend solitary confinement on Va.’s death row”: The Washington Post has an article that begins, “A federal lawsuit in Virginia is threatening to upend the state’s practice of automatically placing death row inmates in near constant solitary confinement, and experts say it could spark similar challenges across the country to a prison practice that is increasingly being scrutinized.”

“Supreme Advocate: Jeffrey Fisher, co-director of Stanford’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, has argued more than 22 cases before SCOTUS.” Stan Sinberg has this cover story in the June 2015 issue of California Lawyer magazine.

“McConnell backs away from judicial shutdown talk”: Alexander Bolton of The Hill has this report today.

“Filings suggest Georgia can’t explain cloudy execution drug”: The Associated Press has this report.

And Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News has an article headlined “Georgia (Reluctantly) Releases Results Of Execution Drug Experiment; The results of the experiment don’t help the state’s case that its execution drug became ‘cloudy’ because of the cold temperature it was stored in.”

“Court adds $5.4 billion to debt bill; Argentina to appeal”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Appeals court upholds temporary hike in postal rate”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued yesterday.

“Texas Supreme Court judge named ‘Tweeter Laureate'”: The Associated Press has this report.

You can access the Twitter feed of Justice Don Willett at this link.