“Game over: New US computer search law takes effect Thursday; Senate declines to vote on proposals to block or delay the administrative rule.” David Kravets of Ars Technica has this report.

“The Specter of Korematsu: A timely look back at the infamous Supreme Court case that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans.” The new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick can be accessed here.

“Noose Tightens Around In-Laws With Indictment in Murder of Jewish Professor Dan Markel”: Daniel J. Solomon of The Forward has this report.

“Delaware Supreme Court to weigh fate of death row inmates; Court to hear arguments over whether a ruling to end the death penalty should be applied to those still on death row”: Jessica Masulli Reyes of The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this report.

“Indian Cinemas Must Play the National Anthem, Supreme Court Rules”: Ellen Barry of The New York Times has this report on a ruling that the Supreme Court of India issued today.

“Robin Camp one step closer to being first federal judge kicked off bench”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has an article that begins, “A judge who asked the complainant in a rape trial why she didn’t keep her knees together stands to become the first federally appointed judge to be kicked off the bench over his conduct of a sex-assault trial, after a disciplinary body’s unanimous recommendation on Wednesday that he be removed.”

“UK’s Supreme Court faces Brexit limelight”: Andrew Hosken of BBC News has this report.

“Missouri Supreme Court judge Richard Teitelman dies at 69”: Kurt Erickson of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has this report.

“New stash of legal opinions detail hurdles for Trump on emoluments ban”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post today.

“Will the Supreme Court Stop Texas from Executing the Intellectually Disabled?” Lincoln Caplan has this post online today at The New Yorker.

“Lawsuits challenge abortion restrictions in 3 states”: David Crary of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Taking the offensive after Election Day setbacks, Planned Parenthood and its allies filed lawsuits Wednesday in North Carolina, Missouri and Alaska challenging laws that they view as unconstitutional restrictions on abortion.”

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund today issued a news release titled “Planned Parenthood and Fellow Reproductive Rights Groups Sue Over Unconstitutional Abortion Restrictions in Three States.”

“Judges consider extending federal workplace protections for sexual orientation”: Elyssa Cherney of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

The South Bend Tribune reports that “South Bend woman’s case could have national impact on LGBT rights; Former Ivy Tech South Bend instructor sued, claiming she was fired because she is gay.”

The Associated Press reports that “Full US court in Chicago hears LGBT-workplace bias appeal.”

And Lorraine Bailey of Courthouse News Service reports that “Seventh Circuit Poised to Grant Major Gay-Rights Victory.”

“Trump SCOTUS Shortlister Joan Larsen Is Fast-Rising Star”: Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Judge Posner Slams ‘Stupid’ Decisions by Chief Justice Roberts, ‘Silly’ Stances by Scalia”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report on a video titled “May 16, 2016 First Amendment Salon” that you can access on YouTube at this link.

Access the oral arguments of the two cases reargued en banc today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit: You can access the audio of today’s reargument en banc in Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College via this link (22.2 MB mp3 audio file).

And you can access the audio of today’s reargument en banc in United States v. Randy Johnson via this link (27.5 MB mp3 audio file).

“Trump unlikely to sway Supreme Court on flag burning”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Jennings v. Rodriguez, No. 15-1204: At this link.

In early news coverage, Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court weighs bond hearings for detained immigrants.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. justices divided over immigration detention dispute.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a blog post titled “Obama administration argues before Supreme Court to limit immigrants’ right.”

“E11: Immigration Evolution.” Bloomberg BNA posted online this “Cases and Controversies” podcast earlier this month featuring Kimberly Robinson, Nicholas Datlowe, and Bernard Pazanowski — plus a musical accompaniment from time to time.

“LGBT worker’s civil rights case could reach beyond state”: Madeline Buckley of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

And The Chicago Sun-Times has posted online an editorial titled “Court should ban sexual orientation discrimination.”

“Justices Hear Texas Death Penalty Case Involving Intellectual Disability”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court weighs Texas criteria for gauging death row inmates’ intellect.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Texas Death-Penalty Rules; Rules permit execution of convicts who are considered intellectually disabled under current medical standards.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “Supreme Court takes up question of death penalty and intellectual disability.”

Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post reports that “Supreme Court Looks For Intellectual ‘Baseline’ To Determine When States May Put People To Death; The exercise may deal yet another blow to the death penalty.”

And on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Tests Role Of Intellectual Disability In Death Penalty Case.”

“After Bringing Back The Death Penalty, Nebraska Looks To Act In Secret; The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services wants to allow its execution drug suppliers to be secret from now on; In the past, the state has (unsuccessfully) bought illegal execution drugs”: Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Supreme Court dispute over jailing immigrants takes on new importance in Trump era”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court To Consider How Long Immigrants May Be Detained Without Bond Hearing.”

“Three for the Nine”: The New York Sun has posted online an editorial that begins, “Where are the New Yorkers on the list of judges that Donald Trump intends to consider for the Supreme Court?”

“Trump Calls for Revoking Flag Burners’ Citizenship. Court Rulings Forbid It.” Charlie Savage will have this article in Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Wednesday’s edition of that newspaper will also contain an editorial titled “Mr. Trump, Meet the Constitution.”

“Ordinary investigative stop, or ‘extraordinary’ and unlawful police tactics?” Will Baude’s preview of the two cases being reargued en banc tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concludes with this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Magbanua indicted in Markel slaying; Co-defendant Luis Rivera testifies in grand jury proceeding”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “Prosecutors secured a murder indictment of Katherine Magbanua, a prime suspect in orchestrating the July 2014 shooting of Florida State University law professor Dan Markel.”

“The Supreme Court and the Next Generation of Executive Power Cases”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Does federal law already ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation?” Will Baude has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Mitch McConnell Stands Up For Flag Burning Even When Donald Trump Won’t; The Senate majority leader has a history on this First Amendment issue”:
Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

“Deciding Not to Decide: A Limited Defense of the Silent Concurrence.” Alexander I. Platt has this article in the Spring 2016 issue of The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, which arrived at my office in today’s mail.

Also in that issue, Adam Feldman has an article titled “All Copying Is Not Created Equal: Borrowed Language in Supreme Court Opinions.”

“Hidden Legal Horcruxes: ‘The Maryland Court of Appeals and the Amply Sized Certiorari Petition.'” Michael Wein has this post today at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”

“Supreme Court skeptical of Texas on death penalty”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Justices Hint at Wider Death Penalty Exemption for Disabled.”

Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News reports that “Supreme Court Skeptical Of Texas Standards For Intellectual Disability In Death Cases; In Bobby James Moore’s case, the Supreme Court is examining how Texas has applied the high court’s ban on the execution of intellectually disabled people.”

And Lyle Denniston has a blog post titled “The Court makes progress on a death penalty project.”

“U.S. appeals court to hear gay workplace discrimination case”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has an article that begins, “A U.S. appeals court takes up a closely watched gay rights case on Wednesday in which an Indiana college professor who says she lost her job because she is a lesbian is arguing that federal civil rights law should protect gay people from workplace discrimination.”

“U.S. Supreme Court seeks Obama administration view on Gold King Mine legal dispute”: Bruce Finley of The Denver Post has this report.

Access the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Moore v. Texas, No. 15-797: At this link.