“The President and the Detainees”: Law professor Aziz Z. Huq has posted this article on SSRN.

“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.

“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.

“Trump close to naming nominee for Supreme Court”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Donald Trump Narrows List of Supreme Court Nominees; List comprises handful of federal appellate judges admired in conservative circles to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Trump Supreme Court List Said to Be Topped by Hardiman, Gorsuch.”

And at “Above the Law,” David Lat has a post titled “Supreme Court Update: And Then There Were Three Four.”

“Pittsburgh federal judge Thomas Hardiman on Trump’s final list to fill Supreme Court vacancy”: Paula Reed Ward and Tracie Mauriello of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have this article, in which I am quoted.

And Chris Mondics and Mari A. Schaefer of The Philadelphia Inquirer report that “Pennsylvania judge reportedly on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist.”

“Judge certifies class in lawsuit challenging PACER fees”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post.

“SCOTUS Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor visits ASU; The Associate Justice to the Supreme Court discussed both personal adversities and the role of the court in modern America”: Ryan Cloughley of The State Press, the student newspaper of Arizona State University, has this report.

And Mary Beth Faller of ASU Now reports that “Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells ASU crowd that confirmation process is broken; Supreme Court judge says good high-court nominees would never predict how they would rule ahead of time on a given case.”

“Trump narrows high court search, to name conservative next week”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.