“Supreme Court Fight Rescues a Justice From Obscurity”: Carl Hulse will have this new installment of his “On Washington” column in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“4-4 at the Supreme Court”: Amy Davidson has this post online today at The New Yorker.

Programming note: After appearing with Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal this afternoon as a guest speaker for the Supreme Court Clinic of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, I will be returning home to the Philadelphia area. As a result, additional posts will appear here tonight.

In the interim, appellate-related updates likely will appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Courtesy Calls Give Senators A Chance To Get To Know Supreme Court Nominees”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Merrick Garland to Meet With More Republicans”: Today at the “First Draft” blog of The New York Times, Carl Hulse has a post that begins, “The White House has lined up more meetings between the Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick B. Garland and Republican lawmakers, with Senators Susan Collins of Maine and John Boozman of Arkansas scheduled to sit down with him on Tuesday.”

“Garland bails on shot dog case”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post.

You can access today’s ruling of a two-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“Shirley Hufstedler, Pioneering Judge and First Cabinet-Level Education Secretary, Is Dead at 90”: This obituary written by Sam Roberts appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

Jill Leovy of The Los Angeles Times has written an obituary headlined “Shirley Hufstedler dies at 90; judge served as first secretary of Education.”

Emily Langer of The Washington Post has written an obituary headlined “Shirley Hufstedler, first secretary of the newly created Education Dept., dies at 90.”

And the Public Information Office of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted online a news release titled “Ninth Circuit Recalls Shirley M. Hufstedler.”

“If you are trying to access the Indiana Law Blog, it has gone dark, effective late Thursday, March 31, 2016.” If you seek to access the “Indiana Law Blog” today, you will receive this message. On a more hopeful note, however, the message goes on to say that “the search for a sponsor has not quite ended, [and] it is possible the ILB may return within a few weeks.”

“Outraged by Kansas Justices’ Rulings, G.O.P. Seeks to Reshape Court”: In Saturday’s edition of The New York Times, Erik Eckholm will have an article that begins, “Washington is locked in partisan warfare over control of the Supreme Court. But it is hardly the only place. Look at the states, where political attacks on judicial decisions are common and well-financed attack ads are starting to jar the once-sleepy elections for State Supreme Court seats.”

“Justice Scalia’s cruel irony: His absences exposes truth about Supreme Court; Scalia’s empty chair, and a 4-4 tie, prove again how political our Supreme Court has become.” Law professor Eric Segall has this essay at Salon.com.

“Obama to return to U. of C. Law School to push for Garland”: Lynn Sweet of The Chicago Sun-Times has this report.

And Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post reports that “Obama to give speech in Chicago on Supreme Court vacancy dispute.”