“U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power”: Reuters has this report.

And Bloomberg News reports that “FBI Computer Searches Expanded Under New U.S. Supreme Court Rule.”

“White House allies make new push for Garland; Groups to blitz nine states with ads, events to pressure GOP to allow a vote on Supreme Court nominee”: Edward-Isaac Dovere of Politico.com has this report today.

“Baldwin, Johnson bitterly joust over appeals court vacancy”: In today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Craig Gilbert has a front page article that begins, “Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators are blaming each other in unusually harsh terms over the failure to fill the nation’s oldest vacancy in the federal appeals courts, a marathon six-year impasse that now seems likely to drag on.”

“WI John Doe Cert. Petition Raises Substantial Questions, But #SCOTUS May Not Bite”: Rick Hasen has this post today at his “Election Law Blog.”

And in related news coverage, Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that “Prosecutors ask U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Doe decision.”

And in today’s edition of The Wisconsin State Journal, Matthew DeFour has a front page article headlined “Prosecutors appeal John Doe decision to U.S. Supreme Court.”

“Justice Breyer Stresses Globality”: The Hoya, the student newspaper of Georgetown University, has an article that begins, “Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer argued that the court should take a more global perspective in legal deliberations and defended the responsibility of the court to uphold the rule of law in a conversation hosted by the department of government as part of the Marver H. Bernstein Symposium in Gaston Hall on Thursday.”

“Obama’s Iran-Contra: The president is spending money that Congress has explicitly told him he can’t spend.” Marc Zilversmit has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“A Supreme Court Challenge for Democrats: Ending ugly confirmation battles would be good for the high court; But a truce cannot be one-sided.” In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Theodore B. Olson has an op-ed that begins, “The relentless partisan warfare over Supreme Court appointments, including the latest manifestation involving Judge Merrick Garland, is disheartening, damaging to the court and corrosive to civil discourse.”

You can freely access the full text of the op-ed via Google.

“Breathalyzers, Textalyzers and the Constitution”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“What’s in a Name Change? Politics, Some at George Mason University Fear.” Nicholas Fandos has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.