“Supreme Court seems to favor limits on tribal court lawsuits”: The Associated Press has this report.

Update: In other coverage, Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices hostile to tribal court authority in molestation case.”

“Justice Kagan on Textualism’s Success”: Richard M. Re has this post today at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“Yale Finds Error in Legal Stylebook: Harvard Did Not Create It.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Why Has The Death Penalty Grown Increasingly Rare?” Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Cliff Sloan Elected Chair of ACS Board of Directors”: The American Constitution Society issued this news release today.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today did not grant review in any new cases.

Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, in which Justice Antonin Scalia joined, from the denial of certiorari in Friedman v. City of Highland Park, Illinois, No. 15-133.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Justices reject challenge to local assault weapons ban” and “Justices rejects appeal of Minnesota priest.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Supreme Court rejects challenge to assault weapon ban.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Gun Advocates Rejected by U.S. High Court on Assault Weapons.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Court leaves intact an assault weapon ban.”

“More calls for Justice Eakin to resign”: Craig R. McCoy, Angela Couloumbis, and Linda Loyd have this front page article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

And William Bender of The Philadelphia Daily News has an article headlined “Justice Eakin refuses Gov. Wolf’s call to resign, Porngate flares.”

“Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans; A legal mastermind seeks to gut affirmative action and voting rights by rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment.” David H. Gans has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Will Black Lives Matter for Justices?” Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Indian law faces challenge as sex assault case heads to high court”: The Sante Fe New Mexican has this report.

Online at The Atlantic, law professor Garrett Epps has an essay titled “Who Can Tribal Courts Try? The U.S. Supreme Court weighs which disputes America’s Indian tribal courts can adjudicate.”

At Indian Country Today, Peter d’Errico has an essay titled “The Dollar General Case: Anti-Indians Play Hardball, Indians Play Softball.”

And online at The Guardian (UK), Stephen Pevar has an essay titled “Native Americans’ sovereignty is at risk, and the high court must help save it; Dollar General Corporation v Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians goes before the US supreme court Monday, and tribal ability to prosecute crimes is in peril.”

“Latino Clout Turns on Supreme Court View of One-Person-One-Vote”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

And Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Hispanic voter clout imperiled by Texas case before U.S. top court.”

“Is Gollum Good or Evil? Jail Term in Turkey Hinges on Answer.” Katie Rogers had this article in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.