“Constitution Check: If the Supreme Court’s birth-control idea is rejected, what then?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Federal Appeals Court: Yes, Puerto Rico’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional.” Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report on a per curiam ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday.

“The Supreme Court Extremism of Clarence Thomas and Chuck Grassley”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online today at The New Yorker.

“D.C. Circuit sends ominous signal on CFPB constitutionality”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

“Defamation lawsuits involving U.S. lawyer Dershowitz end in settlement”: Reuters has this report.

Programming note: My quick, work-related trip to Houston, Texas will be wrapping-up this afternoon. I will be arriving back in Philadelphia this evening. Additional posts will appear here tonight.

As always when I am traveling, more frequent appellate-related updates are likely to appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.