“There Will Never Be a ‘Mainstream’ Supreme Court Justice: The nuclear option won’t change that.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online today at Slate.

“Justice Gorsuch Ushers In a New Era”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

I offered some similar thoughts in the February 2017 installment of my “Upon Further Review” column published in The Legal Intelligencer, headlined “Increased Senate Partisanship Threatens Future of US Supreme Court.”

Programming note: This afternoon, the Philadelphia Phillies will play the team’s home opener against the Washington Nationals, and I will be there. As a result, additional posts will not appear here until this evening.

“Fourth Circuit Weighs ‘Exceptional Importance’ and Possible En Banc Hearing on Travel Ban 2.0”: Derek Stikeleather has this post today at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”

“Senate Confirms Gorsuch as Supreme Court Justice”: Adam Liptak and Matt Flegenheimer of The New York Times have this report.

Ed O’Keefe and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post report that “Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court.”

And Lisa Mascaro and David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times report that “Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.”

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Tenth Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: According to C-SPAN’s live vote tally. Once the voting has concluded, you can access the official vote tally via this link.

Update: Final vote — 54 to 45 in favor of confirmation.

“Thoughts on the judicial nominations mess and nuclear fallout”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Senate set to approve Trump’s conservative Supreme Court pick”: Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters have this report.

From The Associated Press, Mark Sherman reports that “Gorsuch may be decisive vote in divisive Supreme Court cases.” And Ken Thomas has a news analysis headlined “Gorsuch a win for Trump and GOP establishment.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Divisive Gorsuch Fight Leaves Political Mark on Supreme Court.”

On yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Senate Invokes ‘Nuclear Option’ To Ease Gorsuch Nomination.”

And online at The New Yorker, Amy Davidson has a post titled “Gorsuch Wins, the Filibuster Loses.”

Today’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation vote is scheduled to occur in the U.S. Senate starting at 11:30 a.m. eastern time today. You can view the proceedings live online via C-SPAN.org.