“Trump Fulfills Conservative Wishes With High Court Shortlist”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

FoxNewscom has a report headlined “Trump says he’s ‘pretty much’ made his decision on Supreme Court nominee.”

And Burgess Everett of Politico.com reports that “Trump backs nuclear option if Dems block SCOTUS nominee; The stance is sure to ratchet up tensions ahead of a showdown with Democrats over his high court pick.”

“The One SCOTUS Nominee Democrats Should Stop at Any Cost: William Pryor has no place on the Supreme Court.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“When Democrats Blocked an ‘Out of the Mainstream’ Justice”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Sen. Brown, Rep. Waters move to defend CFPB in D.C. Circuit appeal”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

“Ex-Rabobank traders seek reversal in U.S. of Libor convictions”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“How to kill a Supreme Court nomination”: Joan Biskupic of CNN.com has this report.

“Fans have fantasy sports, Supreme Court nerds have FantasySCOTUS”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“‘Fatal Vision’ surgeon pursues appeal, insists he’s innocent”: The Associated Press has this report.

You can access via this link (69.2 MB mp3 audio file) the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

“Echoes from a Gendered Court: Examining the Justices’ Interactions During Supreme Court Oral Arguments”: Adam Feldman and Rebecca D. Gill have posted this article at SSRN.

“Hardiman May Be Most Moderate of Trump SCOTUS Finalists”: Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“In Trump era, Democrats and Republicans switch sides on states’ rights”: Dan Levine of Reuters has this report.

“Trump’s sister weighs in on Supreme Court pick; The president’s older sibling serves on a federal appeals court with Judge Thomas Hardiman, one of the two leading contenders to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat”: Shane Goldmacher of Politico.com has this report.

“Top court reviews free speech case of man’s anti-police rap”: Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press has an article that begins, “Pennsylvania’s highest court is reviewing the conviction of a Pittsburgh man for making threats against police in a rap song after he was charged with drug offenses.”

You can view Monday’s order of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania granting allowance of appeal in the case at this link.

“‘Orange Is the New Black’ defendant loses again in Chicago court”: Kim Janssen of The Chicago Tribune has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued on Monday.

“Jeffrey MacDonald case gets new airing in 2 courts — law and public opinion”: Anne Blythe of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina has this report.

And The Associated Press reports that “Decades after killings, ‘Fatal Vision’ case back in court.”

The matter is scheduled for oral argument today before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Once the oral argument audio becomes available online, I will link to it.