“Trump Supreme Court Adviser Praises Judge Neil Gorsuch as Potential Heir to Scalia’s Legacy”: Jennifer Hansler of ABC News has this report.

“Why Republicans Could Regret Overturning Roe v. Wade”: Eyal Press has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Trump can’t break the Supreme Court”: Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“How Antonin Scalia’s Ghost Could Block Donald Trump’s Wall”: Law professors Daniel Hemel, Jonathan Masur, and Eric Posner have this op-ed online at The New York Times.

“Trump finished with Supreme Court interviews”: Jim Acosta and Dan Merica of CNN.com have this report.

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Conservative groups trying to derail two potential Supreme Court picks; Pressure Donald Trump on high court nominee.”

“Brexit or Not, Parliament Reigns Supreme”: Online today at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay that begins, “The U.K. Supreme Court’s judgment on Tuesday requiring Parliament to authorize Brexit was conservative in the deepest and best sense of the term.”

“Searching for Justice Scalia: Measuring the ‘Scalia-ness’ of the Next Potential Member of the U.S. Supreme Court.” Jeremy Kidd, Riddhi Sohan Dasgupta, Ryan D. Walters, and James Cleith Phillips have posted on SSRN this updated version of their paper.

According to the second paragraph of the paper’s abstract:

We have updated the paper in light of recent developments (see pages 12-15). Specifically, the shortlist is now rumored to be down to three names: Gorsuch, Hardiman, and Pryor. We have calculated the likelihood that the potential nominees will be the most Scalia-like of the group, and for comparison’s sake have added data on Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito from their time on the D.C. Circuit and Third Circuit, respectively. We find that Gorsuch (62.2-79.4%) and Pryor (70.5-76.7%) have much higher likelihoods of being the most Scalia-like of the potential nominees than Hardiman (34.8-42.9%). In fact, Hardiman looks more like John Roberts (32.6-33.7%) or Samuel Alito (39.4-52.8%) did when they were federal appellate judges.

Interesting stuff!

“Trump Hires A Veteran Of Past Republican Judicial Wars To Handle Court Nominations; Makan Delrahim, a former top staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been hired as deputy White House counsel; Sources say he’ll work on judicial nominations, including the upcoming US Supreme Court pick”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Trump Supreme Court justice pick narrows to two names”: Major Garrett, Jan Crawford, and Adam Aigner-Treworgy of CBS News have this report.

“Here’s why I think Hardiman is more likely than Gorsuch to be the nominee”: Matthew Stiegler has this post today at his “CA3blog.”

“Bringing Cases in an Unusual Term: Top Petitioners and Cert Amici”: Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“A Supreme Court Pick Is Promised. A Political Brawl Is Certain.” Michael D. Shear and Adam Liptak have this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

The new installment of Carl Hulse’s “On Washington” column in today’s edition of The New York Times is headlined “Democrats, With Garland on Mind, Mobilize for Supreme Court Fight.”

And online at The Chicago Tribune, columnist John Kass has an essay titled “Democrats should support Scalia-like nominee to Supreme Court.”

“How Neil Gorsuch could end up as Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

“Trump to make Supreme Court justice pick on February 2”: Reuters has this report.