“Supreme Court appointment conflict comes to a head Monday”: The Roanoke Times has this report.

And The Washington Post reports that “GOP senator hints he will not agree to replace Roush on Va. Supreme Court.”

“After Supreme Court Ruling, Questions Arise On Death Row Inmates”: Alaine Griffin of The Hartford Courant has this report.

And online at The New Yorker, Lincoln Caplan has a post titled “A Strong Argument Against Capital Punishment.”

“Supreme Court’s Gay-Marriage Ruling Allows Something Else: Gay Divorce; Some same-sex couples have been waiting years to divorce; June’s decision means they can.” Lindsay Ellis has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.

“Angola death row heat case may head to U.S. Supreme Court after 5th Circuit rejects inmates’ rehearing request; Death-row inmates say extreme temps a health hazard”: The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

“The Affordable Care Act in court: Obamacare’s haters won’t stop hating.” Steven Mazie has this post at the “Democracy in America” blog of The Economist.

“Will Supreme Court force DHS to divulge secret plan to cut cell service? Feds, lower courts say release of the full plan would ‘endanger’ public safety.” David Kravets of Ars Technica has this report today.

“Corpus Linguistics in the Courts (Again)”: Gordon Smith had this post yesterday at “The Conglomerate” (via “Language Log“).

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah at this link.