“Foreign Payments to Trump Firms Violate Constitution, Suit Will Claim”: Eric Lipton and Adam Liptak of The New York Times have this report.

“Blankenship conviction upheld by appeals court”: Wendy Holdren of The Register-Herald of Beckley, West Virginia has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued Thursday.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: ‘The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will be closed on . . . January 20, 2017.'” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“GOP eyes new push to break up California court”: Lydia Wheeler of The Hill has an article that begins, “Republican lawmakers are eyeing a new push to break up the California-based federal court of appeals, which is widely considered one of the most liberal courts in the country.”

“How Trump can use Obamacare to kill Obamacare: The same executive authority the Obama administration used to implement the law may now be used to dismantle it.” Dan Diamond of Politico.com has this report.

“Sen. Schumer willing to block Trump’s Supreme Court pick ‘if the nominee is not bipartisan and mainstream'”: Adam Edelman of The New York Daily News has this report.

Eric Bradner of CNN.com reports that “Schumer vows opposition to any ‘out of the mainstream’ Supreme Court pick.”

And Mallory Shelbourne of The Hill reports that “Schumer ready to leave Supreme Court seat open.”