“Learning to Love the Nuclear Option”: Steven Waldman has this essay online at The New York Times.

“The shrewdness of Judge Wood’s opinion in LGBT workplace bias case”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

“A Judicial Battle Royal At The Seventh Circuit — And Judge Posner’s Favorite Gays Of All Time; SCOTUS shortlisters and other luminaries of the federal judiciary duke it out in a landmark case”: David Lat has this post today at “Above the Law.”

“A Thunderbolt From the 7th Circuit: In a landmark opinion, a bipartisan group of judges found that the Civil Rights Act prohibits anti-gay workplace discrimination.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate, along with an essay titled “The 7th Circuit’s Landmark Anti-Gay Discrimination Ruling Is Also Great News for Trans Rights.”

“Attorneys argue over soda tax before Commonwealth Court”: Joe Mandak of The Associated Press has this report on a case argued today before a seven-judge en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

“MPAA: Films and TV Shows About Real-Life People Jeopardized by ‘Porco’ Ruling; Film studios and media groups urge a rehearing after a New York appeals court allowed a convicted murderer to move forward in a lawsuit against Lifetime Entertainment.” Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

“Senator talks all night as Democrats fight Trump court nominee”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Senate Formally Takes Up Gorsuch Nomination, and Braces for Turmoil”: Matt Flegenheimer has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. And Charlie Savage has an article headlined “Strategic Debate in Gorsuch Battle: Use Filibuster Now or Later?”

And in today’s edition of The Washington Post, Ed O’Keefe and Sean Sullivan have an article headlined “Senate plunges toward historic rules change in Supreme Court standoff.”

“Gorsuch’s Plagiarism Is Worthy of Embarrassment”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“Judge Posner’s ‘Judicial Interpretive Updating'”: Josh Blackman has this blog post today.

“Contentious cases await Trump’s U.S. high court nominee Gorsuch”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com reports that “Supreme Court justices await Senate nuclear option.”

“DHS: Immigration agents may arrest crime victims, witnesses at courthouses.” Devlin Barrett has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“All-night Democrat talk-a-thon opposes Supreme Court pick”: Erica Werner of The Associated Press has this report.

“Credit Cards and the Disturbingly Widening Gyre of Free Speech”: Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online today at Justia’s Verdict.

“7th Circuit rules that civil rights laws protect LGBT employees from workplace bias”: Holly V. Hays has this front page article in today’s edition of The Indianapolis Star.

In today’s edition of The New York Times, Matthew Haag and Niraj Chokshi have an article headlined “Civil Rights Act Protects Gay Workers, Court Rules.”

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Sandhya Somashekhar has an article headlined “Court: Workplace discrimination against gays is prohibited by federal law.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Federal appeals court: Civil rights law covers LGBT workplace bias.”

In today’s edition of The Chicago Tribune, Tony Briscoe has a front page article headlined “Court: Civil Rights Act covers LGBT workplace bias.”

In today’s edition of The Washington Times, Bradford Richardson has a front page article headlined “Appeals court: 1964 Civil Rights Act protects lesbian, gay employees from workplace bias.”

Reuters reports that “U.S. court rules 1964 civil rights law protects LGBT workers from bias.”

Michael Tarm of The Associated Press reports that “Gay rights organizations hail court ruling as ‘game changer.’”

Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has a report headlined “Appeals court: Existing law bans anti-gay discrimination.”

Darran Simon of CNN.com reports that “Lesbian plaintiff in work discrimination suit sticking to fight.”

At the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Workplace rights broadened for gays and lesbians.”

And in commentary, at the “Take Care” blog, Joshua Matz has a post titled “A Landmark Victory for LGBT Rights (And The Path Ahead).”

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s en banc Seventh Circuit ruling can be accessed here.