“Key Supreme Court Decisions Coming in 2016; Expected rulings on affirmative action, abortion and ‘one person, one vote,’ among others, will remind voters of the power of judicial appointments”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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“One Of The Biggest Losers Of 2015 Was An Entire Branch Of Government; Federal courts got screwed by Senate Republicans”: Jennifer Bendery of The Huffington Post has this report today.

“Pa. Supreme Court justice must resign”: The Erie Times-News has posted this editorial online today.

Today at the “Think Tank” blog of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Marc Bookman has a post titled “Eakin defense raises questions about potential bias.”

And Brad Bumsted of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a news update headlined “Special deputy examining emails should return hard drive, AG official says.”

“U.S. seeks to head off new review of ACA individual mandate”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at “SCOTUSblog.”