“The Vulnerabilities in the Ninth Circuit’s Executive-Order Decision”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

Also online at The New Yorker, John Cassidy has a related post titled “An Encouraging First Victory Over Trumpery.”

“How a 1993 Supreme Court ruling on Santeria’s animal sacrifices helped halt Trump’s travel bans”: Jason Silverstein of The New York Daily News has this report.

“SJC nominee ‘enamored’ with state Constitution”: Jim O’Sullivan of The Boston Globe has this report.

And State House News Service reports that “SJC nominee Elspeth Cypher may offer ‘centrist’ outlook.”

“Protecting consumers from swindlers; How ‘fake facts’ make millions for class-action lawyers”: Theodore H. Frank has this essay online at The Washington Times.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment ‘Disheartening’; The U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in Honolulu for a UH law school program, spoke to high school students Saturday.” Anita Hofschneider of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.

“Del.’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice to retire”: Jessica Masulli Reyes of The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this report.

“Cheshire Killer Komisarjevsky Asks State Supreme Court For New Trial”: Dave Altimari of The Hartford Courant has this report.

“Georgia Supreme Court to consider appeal in Six Flags beating case; Appeals court previously threw out $35M judgment”: This front page article appears in today’s edition of The Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal.

“Supreme Court nominee has defended free speech, religion”: Jeff Donn and Geoff Mulvihill of The Associated Press have this report.

“Why Trump Has Declared War on the Judiciary: He’s making things awkward for his SCOTUS nominee and hurting his chances in court; What’s his endgame?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.