Programming note: On Thursday afternoon, I will be attending and serving as a presenter at a meeting of the “Justice and Journalism” program at the Newseum.

I will be traveling from suburban Philadelphia to Washington, DC on Thursday morning and back again on Thursday evening. As a result, additional posts will appear here on Thursday night. In the interim, new appellate-related retweets will appear at this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Ohio Supreme Court races will feature Cincinnati Republicans, Northeast Ohio Democrats”: The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito agrees to swear in Hamilton Mayor Yaede”: The Trentonian has this report.

“In D.C. gun-law case, appeals court debate focuses on judge’s authority”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post had this report back on November 20, 2015, reporting on an oral argument (25.1 MB mp3 audio file) that occurred before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit earlier that day.

Yesterday, counsel for plaintiffs-appellees in the case filed this document in that D.C. Circuit appeal attaching a letter he sent yesterday to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.

“Ex-Pa. House leader: Prosecutors linked to porn emails are hypocrites.” Wendy Ruderman has this article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Daily News.

Philadelphia Daily News columnist John Baer has an essay titled “Kathleen Kane takes to the stage.”

And Philly.com’s Philly Clout has a post titled “Clout Extra: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Porngate presser.”

“U.S. appeals court rejects Sequenom bid to restore prenatal DNA test patent”: Reuters has this report on an order denying rehearing en banc, accompanied by two concurrences and a dissent, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.

“Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Vote Limited to Native Hawaiians; State argues election conducted by nonprofit isn’t an official act”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Ted Cruz Vows to Put Hard-Core Conservatives on Supreme Court; In an exclusive interview, the former Supreme Court litigator reveals how he would reshape the bench if elected to the White House”: Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg Politics has this report today.

Online at The New York Times, Manny Fernandez has an article headlined “Ted Cruz’s Senate Bid That Didn’t Stop at the Senate.”

And in today’s edition of The New York Times, columnist Frank Bruni has an op-ed titled “Anyone but Ted Cruz.”

“White House Rejects Pentagon Plan to Close Guantanamo as Too Costly; President Barack Obama asks for revised blueprint for building detainee facility in U.S. as time runs down on one of his longtime priorities”: Gordon Lubold and Carol E. Lee have this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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

“Appeals court considering means for prosecuting Guantanamo detainees”: Ann E. Marimow has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

I am looking forward to saying hello to Marimow at tomorrow afternoon’s “Justice and Journalism” program at the Newseum.

“How Judicial Elections Impact Criminal Cases”: The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law today posted online this report by Kate Berry.

“The Price We Pay for Liberty? America must not value the liberty to own a gun over the liberty to live free from violence.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Vermont’s Effort to Gather Data on Health-Care Costs Faces Supreme Court Test; Liberty Mutual argues that federal law bars states from requiring insurers to supply the data”: Jess Bravin and Louise Radnofsky of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices cast doubt on scope of Vermont healthcare data law.”

And Sam Hananel of The Associated Press reports that “High court skeptical of state power to gather health data.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., No. 14-181.

“Woodfox wants U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on his request to be freed and block a third trial in 1972 killing; Inmate seeks to block third trial in guard’s 1972 death”: Maya Lau has this article in today’s edition of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“Wisconsin Supreme Court won’t reopen John Doe probe, rules against special prosecutor”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this news update.

You can access today’s per curiam ruling of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, and the opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part therefrom, at this link.

“Cyberlaw Clinic Files Amicus Brief in SJC Cell Phone Search Case”: Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has this blog post about an amicus brief that the clinic filed recently.

“Justice Scalia’s Majoritarian Theocracy”: Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner and law professor Eric J. Segall will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Citing surge in families at border, feds ask to speed immigration appeal”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post today.

“11th Circuit deepens the circuit split on applying the private search doctrine to computers”: Orin Kerr has this post today at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

And yesterday at “The SDFLA Blog,” David Oscar Markus had a post titled “Rosenbaum vs. Martin.”

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

“Supreme Court blocks Native Hawaiian election vote count”: The Associated Press has this report.

At “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Hawaii election limit extended.”

And at his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen has a post titled “Supreme Court Splits 5-4 Over Extending Stay in Hawaii Election Case.”

You can view today’s 5-to-4 order of the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.