“Motorcycle clubs fight to keep their trademark ‘colors'”: Michael Doyle of McClatchy DC has this report.

“Taking a ban on Confederate flag displays to an absurd extreme”: The Los Angeles Times recently published this editorial.

“He Denied Blacks Citizenship. Now a City Is Deciding His Statue’s Fate.” In Monday’s edition of The New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg will have an article that begins, “In 1801, Roger Brooke Taney, the politically minded son of a Maryland tobacco planter, settled here to practice law.”

“Back to school with no resolution in Gloucester transgender case”: Frances Hubbard has this front page article in today’s edition of The Daily Press of Newport News, Virginia.

“Ten Men vs. J&L Steel: How a Supreme Court case rooted in Beaver County forever changed America’s labor movement.” Jared Stonesifer has this front page article in today’s edition of The Beaver County (Pa.) Times.

“Supreme Court’s Sonia Sotomayor charms CU crowd”: Monte Whaley of The Denver Post has this report.

“Texas Supreme Court Justice: States Can Deny Same-Sex Spousal Benefits to ‘Encourage Procreation'”: Mark Joseph Stern has this essay online at Slate.

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks at UA”: Bridget Briody of The Arizona Daily Wildcat has this report.

“The empty seat”: On Thursday, The Baltimore Sun posted online an editorial that begins, “Wednesday marked the 200th day since the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.”