“Will Republicans Fight to Shrink the Supreme Court?” Jeff Shesol has this post online today at The New Yorker.

“Appeals court rules against Advocate, NorthShore hospital merger”: Lisa Schencker of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

Brent Kendall off The Wall Street Journal reports that “Appeals Court Gives Boost to Government Opposition to Chicago-Area Hospital Merger; Move is latest win for antitrust enforcers challenging health-care consolidation.”

And Reuters reports that “US trade regulator wins round in fight to stop Chicago hospital merger.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

“Justice Clarence Thomas checks out a Colbie Caillat show at the Birchmere”: Emily Heil has this post today at the “Reliable Source” blog of The Washington Post.

“Ballot-Box Tests on Death Penalty in States”: Kenneth Jost has this post today at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Transgender-Rights Case Moves Too Quickly”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Who Owns Cheerleader Uniform Designs? It’s up to the Supreme Court.” Erin Geiger Smith had this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“I’m transgender and can’t use the student bathroom. The Supreme Court could change that.” Gavin Grimm had this op-ed last week in The Washington Post.

“The last death penalty appeal, or just another one before a flood, or business as usual”: David Ettinger has this post today at the “At the Lectern” blog.

“‘At Long Last, Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?'” Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf (D.Neb.) has this post today at the “Fault Lines” blog of Mimesis Law.

“Abortion by prescription now rivals surgery for U.S. women”: Jilian Mincer of Reuters has this report.

“OT2016 #4: ‘Federal Circuit, Never Change.'” You can access the newly posted fourth episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link.

“Amicus: Intimidation Nation — Lawyers challenging punitive voting restrictions in Ohio are making an eleventh hour appeal to the Supreme Court.” You can access at this link the new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

“Who Will Protect the Constitution? Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, amendment by amendment.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“For 25 years, it has been Clarence Thomas v. Controversy”: Robert Barnes has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Justice Thomas, Reticent on the Bench, Is Effusive About His Time There”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court today did not grant review in any new cases, but the Court did call for the views of the Solicitor General’s office in one case.

In Tatum v. Arizona, No. 15-8850, Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred in the decision to issue a GVR, while Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a dissent, in which Justice Clarence Thomas joined.

In early news coverage, The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to FBI fitness test“; “Supreme Court rejects appeal from Alabama death row inmate“; and “Justices dismiss case over deaf driver education in Texas.”