“Two Cases Where Trump Could Rewrite the Rules”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Trump’s Victory Expands the Supreme Court — and Shrinks Its Docket; The president-elect could very quickly dismantle Obama’s legacy of executive action”: Law professor Josh Blackman has this essay online today at National Review.

“Trump has 3 Michigan judges on U.S. Supreme Court list”: Michael Gerstein and Chad Livengood of The Detroit News have this report.

“Bakers in pro-gay marriage cake row seek ruling on Supreme Court appeal; Christian bakers found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a pro-gay marriage cake have asked judges to rule on whether they can appeal to the UK’s highest court”: The Belfast Telegraph has this report.

And ITV News reports that “Ashers bakery seeks Supreme Court bid over ‘gay cake.’”

“How Far Have We Come Since 1952? The Supreme Court took on the gender roles of the 1950s on the day after Donald Trump’s election.” Scott Michelman has this Supreme Court dispatch online today at Slate.

“Teaching Students That Judge Judy Is Not a Supreme Court Justice”: Elizabeth A. Harris has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Arizona pension ruling could be costly for cities, state government”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has an article that begins, “A 2011 state law requiring employees to pay more into their retirement plans is unconstitutional, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled today, potentially blowing a big hole in the budgets of state and local governments.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Arizona at this link. Because four of the court’s five justices recused themselves from the decision, four judges from lower courts who were selected to replace the recused justices participated in today’s ruling.

“Trump’s Election Looms Large Over U.S. Supreme Court”: Brandi Buchman of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“SCOTUS hasn’t looked at class action settlement in 17 years. Time to revisit?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

“All Eyes on Trump SCOTUS List, Twitter Star Willett”: Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Don’t Expect the Supreme Court to Change Much”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“The Choice Confronting the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

Programming note: This afternoon, the 2016 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit gets underway in Philadelphia. I will be attending the Summit, and on Sunday morning I will be moderating a panel.

As a result, new blog posts will appear here less frequently over the next several days, but a greater number of appellate-related retweets are likely to appear at this blog’s Twitter feed.

“How McConnell won, and Obama lost, the Merrick Garland fight”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

And Burgess Everett of Politico.com reports that “McConnell’s Supreme Court gamble pays off in spades; The Senate majority leader, in tandem with Donald Trump, is poised to mold the high court for a generation.”