“Texas court halts execution of man who didn’t pull trigger”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks in Pojoaque”: Maggie Shepard of The Albuquerque Journal has an article that begins, “It was like a rock concert for attorneys and judges, with an enthusiastic standing ovation, hoots and hollers and cell phones aloft capturing the star’s performance.”

And The Associated Press reports that “Justice Ginsburg laments deadlocks on short-handed court.”

“Ex-soldier’s case tests whether flirting is in eye of beholder”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy DC has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s awful Hobby Lobby decision just spawned a very ugly stepchild”: Columnist Michael Hiltzik has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Unions, Ledbetter Warn of Supreme Court Implications of Election”: Chris Opfer of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“State seeks breast enhancement records in Markel case”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Prosecutors are seeking medical records that show Dan Markel’s former brother-in-law paid for half of a breast enhancement for the girlfriend of one of the law professor’s accused killers.”

Easterbrook and Posner on inflatable rats, in an opinion also featuring a photo of an inflatable cat: Today, a star-studded three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — consisting of Chief Judge Diane P. Wood, and Circuit Judges Richard A. Posner and Frank H. Easterbook (both former Seventh Circuit chief judges) — issued a ruling in which Judge Easterbrook’s majority opinion begins:

Rats. This case is about rats. Giant, inflatable rats, which unions use to demonstrate their unhappiness with employers that do not pay union-scale wages. Cats too — inflatable fat cats, wearing business suits and pinkie rings, strangling workers.

The majority opinion contains two photos, one of the rat and one of the cat.

Judge Posner, meanwhile, issued a separate opinion concurring and dissenting that’s nearly twice as long as the majority opinion, no doubt in part because his opinion contains four photos. Alas, all four photos in the dissent are of the rat, demonstrating that while Judge Posner may be a self-described “cat-person,” his love of felines does not extend to the very large, blow-up variety.

“As Donald Trump Falters, Democrats Plan to Press Fight for Supreme Court”: Alan Rappeport will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Vanderbilt law students triumph in Sixth Circuit case despite laryngitis”: Jim Patterson of Vanderbilt News has this report.

My earlier coverage of Tuesday’s Sixth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“Starr out as Baylor law professor”: Phillip Ericksen of The Waco Tribune has this report.

And Kalyn Story of The Baylor Lariat reports that “Judge Starr agrees to leave Baylor.”

“Federal Judge: Religious Liberty Includes a Right to Fire LGBTQ Employees.” Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate.

“Thurgood Marshall’s interracial love: ‘I don’t care what people think. I’m marrying you.'” DeNeen L. Brown has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Supreme Court Is About To Get A Good Look At How North Carolina Messes With Voting Rules; The state’s Republican Party is making tweaks to early voting, and the justices will know all about it”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“In Anchorage, Sotomayor discusses Supreme Court scrutiny, offers advice”: DJ Summers of the Alaska Journal of Commerce has this report.

“Supreme Court diversity requirement ‘a huge change,’ law prof says; New selection process for Supreme Court justices concerns Atlantic Canada legal community”: Stephanie Sirois of CBC News has an article that begins, “A new selection process for Supreme Court justices has the legal community in Atlantic Canada worried the region will be without a jurist on the country’s top court.”