“The US Supreme Court uses email after all — or at least two justices do”: Jason Leopold of Vice News has this report today.

“SCOTUS Briefs: Opinions’ Basic Building Blocks.” Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Appeals court throws out Miami Beach ‘bar-girl’ convictions”: Jay Weaver has this report on a ruling that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.

U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar (E.D. Ky.) — sitting by designation — wrote the opinion, which makes for quite the entertaining read.

“Confirm Judge Koh to the 9th Circuit”: The San Francisco Chronicle has published this editorial.

“Both sides dealt setback in tour guide free-speech lawsuit”: The Associated Press has this report from Charleston, South Carolina.

That happy feeling that follows when you suggest a correction to the Term-end “SCOTUSblog” 2016 stat pack that’s fixed promptly thereafter: Followed by that sad feeling when you realize that a question about the stat pack which accompanied your suggested correction remains unresponded to.

“Limiting Pay for Play in College Sports”: Online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “The odds have gone up that the Supreme Court will consider whether rules governing amateur participation in U.S. college sports violate antitrust law.”

“Practically Speaking, The Death Penalty Is Disappearing In The United States; Although nearly 3,000 people are on death row in America, there has not been an execution in the country for two months — and few executions are expected in the coming months”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report today.

“First Circuit finds sentence enhanced based on a song (and thrice longer than guideline range) substantively unreasonable”: Douglas A. Berman has this post today at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog.

“The Senate risks Election Day chaos: Imagine a Trump-Clinton standoff and a 4-4 Supreme Court.” Law professor Burt Neuborne has this essay online today at The New York Daily News.

“Making use of a 4-to-4 split”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“The Justices Recused Themselves an Astounding 180 Times Last Term”: Fix the Court issued this news release today, along with a related chart.

“Without Dave: Life After ‘Late Show with David Letterman.'” Julie Hecht has this essay online at The New Yorker.