“Will The New Era Of Limited Federal Monitoring Still Protect Voter Rights?” Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Attorney General Schmidt apologizes for state’s citation of Dred Scott case”: Bryan Lowry of The Wichita Eagle has this report.

Second Circuit opts-out from the reduced word limits for federal appellate briefs, joining the Seventh, Ninth, and Federal Circuits: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today issued this notice of proposed rulemaking.

And the Federal Circuit‘s notice of its intention to opt-out, which I had not been aware of until today, can be accessed here.

“Washington Redskins trademark case put on hold”: Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Death Throes: Changing how America thinks about capital punishment.” Lincoln Caplan has this cover story in the November-December 2016 issue of Harvard Magazine.

“SCOTUS Above All Else: Sen. John McCain’s recent comments reveal how the Republican Party’s Supreme Court strategy is backfiring.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Wake Up Progressives: The 2016 Election is Now All About the Supreme Court and Every Issue You Care About.” Rick Hasen has this post today at his “Election Law Blog.”

“Kansas Approvingly Cites Dred Scott to Explain Why It Can Ban Abortion”: Mark Joseph Stern has this post (containing an update at the end) online at Slate.

“GOP obstructionism gone haywire: No new Supreme Court justices until the next Republican president?” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

And online at USA Today, Nan Aron has an essay titled “Debating the Supreme Court: The stakes for the Supreme Court are colossal; As many as three seats could be filled in the next president’s first term.”

“Hatch, Lee say they would not back wholesale block of Clinton high court picks”: Thomas Burr of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

Amber Phillips of The Washington Post has a blog entry titled “John McCain is right: Senate Republicans could block a Clinton Supreme Court nominee indefinitely.”

And Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Chuck Grassley Says Senate Can’t Just ‘Stonewall’ Clinton’s Supreme Court Nominees.”

“The Daily 202: The Supreme Court will be a focus of tonight’s presidential debate.” James Hohmann of The Washington Post has this report.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg Versus Colin Kaepernick”: Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online today at Justia’s “Verdict.”

Also today, at his “Dorf on Law” blog, professor Dorf has a post titled “Colin Kaepernick and the Meaning of Patriotism.”

“Supreme Court Recusals”: Law professor Charles Fried had this letter to the editor in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Case for Shrinking the Supreme Court; Congress should strike a blow against judicial activism and for political comity by reducing the size of the Court”: Law professor Michael Stokes Paulsen has this essay online today at National Review.

“Republican Party Divided Over Trump Shows Unity on Supreme Court”: Steven T. Dennis of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Constitution Check: Could the Supreme Court handle a long-term vacancy?” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Timeout called in Redskins name case”: Ian Shapira of The Washington Post has this report.

“The Supreme Court Questions Trump and Clinton Haven’t Answered Yet: The high court is one of six topics for the final presidential debate, where nominees may be asked about gun rights and gay marriage.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“State Judge: Congress trusts the public to handle assault rifles.” Lyle Denniston has this post today at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Appeals court rules against Beale sweeps”: Jody Callahan of The Memphis Commercial Appeal has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Appeals court upholds ruling against Beale Street sweeps.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

“Law-Enforcement Legends Team Up in Death-Penalty Fight”: Jess Bravin has this post at WSJ.com’s “Law Blog.”

“At U lecture, Justice Sotomayor decries ugly political climate; The Supreme Court’s Sonia Sotomayor delivered the Stein Lecture at the U.” Miguel Otarola of The Minneapolis Star Tribune has this report.

Josh Verges of The Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minnesota reports that “At UMN, Sotomayor addresses Scalia, Perry Mason — and Trump, sort of.”

And The Associated Press has a report headlined “Sotomayor: US Supreme Court still feeling loss of Scalia.”

“The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law'”: Elizabeth Goitein has this op-ed in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“William Baude, ‘An Introduction to the Federalist Society'”: The University of Chicago Law School has posted this audio at SoundCloud.

“Abortion And The 2016 Election”: Law professor Geoffrey R. Stone has this essay online at The Huffington Post.

“GOP will block Clinton court nominees, McCain says”: William V. Theobald has this front page article in today’s edition of The Arizona Republic.

And Mike DeBonis and Paul Kane of The Washington Post report that “Supreme Court is an issue again after McCain suggests Clinton blockade.”

“For a rare moment at the Supreme Court, the genders were on equal footing”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Prominent Conservative Legal Minds Reject SCOTUS Argument for Trump”: Adam J. White has this post at The Weekly Standard.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Conservative ‘originalists’ letter calls Trump ‘indifferent or hostile’ to the Constitution.”

And Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Some Of Justice Scalia’s Biggest Fans Declare Donald Trump ‘Uniquely Unsuited’ To Be President; They don’t trust him to uphold the Constitution at all.”

You can read the open letter at a blog titled “Originalists Against Trump.”

“Dissents from Denial of Cert (2010-2015)”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Sigfredo Garcia trial pushed back”: Sean Rossman of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Sigfredo Garcia, one of three people charged in the 2014 murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel, had his trial date pushed back earlier today. Garcia was set to go to trial Nov. 14. His next court date will now be Dec. 6.”

“Republicans May Block All Supreme Court Nominees Of A President Clinton, McCain Says; So much for letting the people and the next president decide”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

Steve Benen of msnbc.com reports that “John McCain points to indefinite Supreme Court blockade.”

Chris Massie of CNN.com has a report headlined “John McCain: ‘I don’t know’ if Trump will be better for Supreme Court than Clinton.”

Allegra Kirkland of TPM has a report headlined “McCain Changes Tack On SCOTUS: ‘Of Course’ He’ll Vote On HRC’s Nominee.”

And Ian Millhiser of ThinkProgress has an essay titled “John McCain: Republicans will block anyone Clinton names to the Supreme Court; The cat is out of the bag.”

“OT2016 #3: ‘Dumb and Disrespectful.'” You can access the newly posted third episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link.

“How a Hillary Clinton Presidency Would Affect the Supreme Court: Conservatives would suffer losses, but the notion that she would permanently vanquish originalism doesn’t withstand scrutiny.” Conor Friedersdorf has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“An Agent Shot a Boy Across the U.S. Border. Can His Parents Sue?” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Safeguard Needed for Racism in Jury Room”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”