“Kagan: 8-member Supreme Court a problem over time.” The Associated Press has this report.

Harvard Law School today posted online at YouTube a video titled “A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.”

“Minnesota swears in its first American Indian Supreme Court justice; The court now has its first first female majority since 1991”: Ricardo Lopez of The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this report.

And John Autey of The Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minnesota reports that “Anne McKeig sworn in as Minnesota’s first Native American Associate Supreme Court Justice.”

“Christie asks Supreme Court to revisit landmark Abbott case”: In today’s edition of The Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger, Adam Clark has a front page article that begins, “Gov. Chris Christie is asking the state Supreme Court to reopen the landmark Abbott v. Burke school funding case and to give the state education chief power to bypass laws and bargaining agreements that protect veteran teachers, the governor’s office announced Thursday.”

And in today’s edition of The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey, Hannan Adely and Salvador Rizzo have a front page article headlined “Christie asks court to revisit landmark school funding case.”

“UF alumna makes history as first Supreme Court clerk from Levin”: Paige Fry of The Independent Florida Alligator has this report.

The Times Free Press of Chattanooga, Tennessee reports that “Covenant graduate to work under U.S. Supreme Court Justice.”

This week, the University of Florida Levin College of Law issued a news release titled “Alumna makes history as UF Law’s first SCOTUS clerk.”

“We should elect Supreme Court justices: The Supremes are functioning more like a legislature than a court, and no legislature is above politics.” Law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds has this essay online at USA Today.

“Birth Control Continues to Bedevil the Supreme Court”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.