Access Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.’s 2016 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary: At this link.

In news coverage, Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “Chief Justice Salutes Trial Judges for Tackling ‘Daunting Workload.’”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Roberts steers clear of controversy, praises district judges in year-end report.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Chief Justice John Roberts Praises Federal District Judges in Annual Report; Comments from nation’s highest jurist cap year featuring Donald Trump’s baseless attacks on judge, death of Justice Antonin Scalia.”

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “Roberts praises lower court judges in annual SCOTUS report.”

“The Growing Gap Between the U.S. and the International Anti-Death-Penalty Consensus”: Lincoln Caplan has this post online today at The New Yorker.

“Will SCOTUS Finally Pick Up the PACER?” Richard M. Re has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Could Become Donald Trump’s Top Supreme Court Lawyer; The solicitor general is the country’s top appellate attorney”: Cristian Farias of The Huffington Post has this report.

And Josh Blackman has a blog post titled “George Conway for Solicitor General?”

“Will ‘Funny Brief’ Backfire at Supreme Court?” Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Job No. 1 for a New Congress? Undoing Obama’s Health Law.” Robert Pear will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.