“Werdegar retirement gives Jerry Brown chance to further mold California Supreme Court”: Christopher Cadelago of The Sacramento Bee has this report.

“Law School to Accept GRE for Applications in Fall 2017”: Jamie D. Halper of The Harvard Crimson has this report.

Elizabeth Olson of The New York Times reports that “Harvard Law, Moving to Diversify Applicant Pool, Will Accept GRE Scores.”

And Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Harvard Law School to Allow Applicants to Take GRE; Administration officials to decide later if LSAT will become permanently optional.”

“Justice Kennedy Gets Real About Racial Bias”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Resolved: U.S. Supreme Court Justices Should Be Subject to Term Limits.” The National Constitution Center has posted on YouTube at this link the video of this debate from yesterday.

“1st Circuit 3-judge panel hears appeal over Touro Synagogue ruling; Lawyers for New York and Newport congregations argued before a 3-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Boston, over a District Court decision awarding the nation’s oldest synagogue to Newport-based Jeshuat Israel”: Katie Mulvaney of The Providence (R.I.) Journal has this report.

And Michelle R. Smith of The Associated Press reports that “Fight over control of oldest US synagogue at appeals court.”

You can access via this link (19.4 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 First Circuit.

“Noel Francisco to inherit Supreme Court lectern”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

And Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Trump nominates D.C. lawyer Noel Francisco as solicitor general.”

“What Kind of Judge is Neil Gorsuch? A Closer Look at His Cases.” The Heritage Foundation has posted on YouTube at this link the video of this panel discussion from yesterday.

“[W]e should quarantine King [v. Burwell] and its potentially dangerous shapeshifting nature to the specific facts of that case to avoid jurisprudential disruption on a cellular level.” So writes Circuit Judge John B. Owens in a one-paragraph dissent from a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Taking Care of Business”: Adam Feldman has this post today at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“The Decline of Supreme Court Deference to the President”: Law professors Lee Epstein and Eric A. Posner have posted this paper on SSRN.

“Activists Urge Democrats to Step Up Resistance to Gorsuch Nomination”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this new installment of his “On Washington” column.

“Trump announces Noel Francisco as solicitor general pick”: Ariane de Vogue and Dan Merica of CNN.com have this report.

“Gorsuch: A high court pick whose writing is down to earth.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Back in court, ‘Chip’ Fattah seeks to overturn his conviction”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeremy Roebuck has a front page article that begins, “Dressed in handcuffs and an olive prison jumpsuit, Chaka ‘Chip’ Fattah Jr. returned to Philadelphia on Tuesday to urge a federal appeals court to overturn his 2015 conviction on bank and tax fraud charges.”

You can access via this link (23.0 MB mp3 audio file) the audio of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

“Trump administration drops appeal over first travel ban; Move leaves 9th Circuit ruling as precedent, at least for now”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

“And The Nominee For Solicitor General Is….” David Lat had this post yesterday at “Above the Law.”