“Thank God for Harry Reid”: Online at The Washington Post, columnist Charles Krauthammer has an essay that begins, “There are many people to thank for the coming accession of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.”

Also online at The Washington Post, columnist Eugene Robinson has an essay titled “Fighting Gorsuch is hopeless. Democrats should do it anyway.”

“Was That Search Illegal? Sometimes, Neil Gorsuch Ruled It Was.” Charlie Savage will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“There’s a Simple Step North Carolina’s New Governor Could Take to Strengthen Voting Rights: But he’d better move fast.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Fruit of a Poison Tree”: Columnist Charles M. Blow has this essay online at The New York Times.

“U.S. court rejects states’ bid to defend consumer agency”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Sotomayor mentions Gorsuch obliquely in NYC college speech”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Trump’s sister takes inactive status on US appeals court”: The Associated Press has this report.

“Law Review Elects First Black Woman President”: Jamie D. Halper of The Harvard Crimson has an article that begins, “ImeIme A. Umana ’14 will be the first black woman to serve as President of the Harvard Law Review, the legal journal announced Monday.”

“Harvard Law Graduate Neil M. Gorsuch Nominated to Supreme Court”: Jamie D. Halper of The Harvard Crimson has this report.

Confirmed — SCOTUS nominee Neil M. Gorsuch and I do not appear in any of the same issues of The Columbia Spectator: As an undergraduate attending Columbia College from the fall of 1982 through the spring of 1986, articles that I wrote frequently appeared in Columbia’s student newspaper between September 1982 and April 1985.

Judge Gorsuch, who graduated from Columbia in 1988, appeared in Columbia’s student newspaper a bit less frequently overall between September 1985 and April 1988.

Earlier this week, Jessica Spitz and Aaron Holmes of The Columbia Spectator had an article headlined “Trump picks Columbia graduate as Supreme Court nominee.”

“Gorsuch is a jurisprudential rock star”: Ilya Shapiro has this essay today at CNN.com.

“A look at the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, with Adam Liptak of The New York Times, Jan Crawford of CBS News, former solicitor general Paul Clement, and David Boies, chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.” You can view the video of yesterday’s broadcast of the Charlie Rose show at this link.

“Judge Neil Gorsuch Has Admirers Across the Ideological Spectrum; Friends, colleagues and former law clerks say it is a mistake to view him as an enthusiastic engineer on the Trump train”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“The Flight 216 Selection”: At First Things, Adrian Vermeule has a post that begins, “Judge Neil Gorsuch is a walking, talking Hollywood writer’s pitch: ‘I’ve got it! Antonin Scalia meets Jimmy Stewart!'”

“Bench Brackets: Busted by Gorsuch!” Bloomberg BNA has posted online this video featuring Kimberly Robinson and Patrick Gregory.

“Seven Cases Where the Supreme Court Sided With Neil Gorsuch (And One Time it Didn’t)”: Hannah Recht of Bloomberg News has this report.

“4th Circuit overturns $3 million Ford crash verdict”: Erica Teichert of Reuters has an article (subscription required for full access) that begins, “A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $3 million jury verdict against Ford Motor Co over an alleged defect that caused a single-car accident, ruling the plaintiffs’ expert witness should have been disqualified.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

“Neil Gorsuch and Justices Past”: Amy Davidson has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Chief Justice Roberts avoids controversy during speech at University of Kentucky”: John Cheves has this front page article in today’s edition of The Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader.

Yesterday was “visit Lexington” day for at least two U.S. Supreme Court Justices, as Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a speaking appearance in Lexington, Virginia. In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Laura Vozzella has an article headlined “Justice Ginsburg makes her first visit to the military institute she remade.” And Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “At VMI, Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflects on a monumental ruling.”

What remains to be confirmed is whether any Justices had the good fortune yesterday to be in Lexington, North Carolina, which is famous for its barbecue. All of which, of course, reminds me of that day in October 2015 when I had lunch in Lexington, Virginia and dinner in Lexington, Kentucky on my road-trip from Philadelphia to Atlanta.

“Gorsuch Freezing-Trucker Case Boosts Business Hopes at Top Court”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Most Important Questions for Trump’s Justice Are About Democracy: Senators should press Neil Gorsuch on questions fundamental to democratic government.” Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Ask Neil Gorsuch about Merrick Garland”: Alan M. Dershowitz has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“Clerks Laud Gorsuch Despite Red Ink Spilled on Drafts”: Melissa H. Stanzione of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Meet Neil Gorsuch: A fly-fishing Scalia fan.” Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com has this report.

Known for his subtle persuasiveness: Longtime readers of this blog may recall that, in January 2014, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled 4-to-2 in favor of my client, the plaintiff, in a case that I had argued in that court more than two years and four months earlier. Additional details about that matter appear in this earlier post.

The seemingly endless wait for a ruling in that case comes to mind because — one year ago today — I orally argued two unrelated cases before the same three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and neither case has yet to be decided. One of the cases has a large record; the other, not so much. Additional details on both cases can be accessed via this earlier post.

Because it is unusual for one case, let alone two unrelated cases, to be pending for decision a year after oral argument — indeed, I cannot think of any other Pa. Superior Court case that I have briefed and argued in my 25+ year career as an appellate advocate in Pennsylvania that took this long to decide — I decided to compose this post commemorating the one-year anniversary of the oral arguments in both cases.

“Judge Gorsuch by the Numbers and Decisions”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“As private lawyer, Trump high court pick was friend to business”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Ignore the attacks on Neil Gorsuch. He’s an intellectual giant — and a good man.” Robert P. George has this essay online at The Washington Post.