“In Wisconsin, ID law proved insurmountable for many voters”: Christina A. Cassidy and Ivan Moreno of The Associated Press have this report.

“Oregon may allow drivers to choose nonbinary, rather than male or female, for licenses”: Casey Parks of The Oregonian has this report.

And Terray Sylvester of Reuters reports that “Oregon moves toward allowing third gender option on drivers’ licenses.”

“Yorie Kahl won’t get a trial on his defamation lawsuit”: The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A North Dakota man serving life in prison for the killing of two federal marshals outside Medina in 1983 won’t get a trial on a defamation lawsuit he filed against a news agency.”

Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh issued yesterday’s ruling on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

“Another Addition to the Chevron Anticanon: Judge Kavanaugh on the ‘Major Rules’ Doctrine.” Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

“Anthony Kennedy’s Choice: The Supreme Court’s conservative swing vote faces a fateful decision.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“OT2016 #21: ‘Good Snake.'” You can access this week’s new episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link.

In addition, Samuel and Epps appeared on this past Saturday’s episode of the “Oral Argument” podcast, titled “Crossover.”

“How Trump Will Transform the Federal Courts: One young judge at a time.” Law professor Micah Schwartzman and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Judges Doubt Trump’s Travel-Ban Motives”: Amy Davidson has this post online at The New Yorker.

And online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has a jurisprudence essay titled “Trump Poisons His Own Laws: The latest oral arguments over the administration’s travel ban show how the president’s words and intentions taint his agenda and the lawyers who defend it.”

“Former US Solicitor General Ian Gershengorn Re-Joins Jenner & Block as a Partner In Washington, DC”: Jenner & Block recently issued this news release.

“Taking Down Terrorists in Court: Zainab Ahmad has prosecuted thirteen international terrorist suspects for the American government; She hasn’t lost yet.” William Finnegan has this Annals of Law article in the May 15, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.

Programming note: On Tuesday, I will be returning home from Atlanta. But first, much remains to be done in Atlanta. As a result, new posts are unlikely to appear here until Wednesday morning.

In the interim, as always when I am away from the computer, more frequent appellate-related retweets likely will appear at this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Judges Weigh Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ Remarks at Appeals Court Hearing”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post report that “President Trump’s lawyers on revised travel ban repeatedly asked about campaign promises.”

In Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Brent Kendall will have an article headlined “Appellate Judges Review Travel Ban; Court considers whether Trump’s prior statements should be considered when deciding the case.”

Alan Gomez of USA Today reports that “Federal appeals court grills Trump team over travel ban.”

Andrea Noble and Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times report that “Trump attorneys ask skeptical court to look beyond ‘Muslim ban’ campaign rhetoric.”

Frank Green of The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that “Richmond-based appeals court grills lawyers on Trump’s travel ban.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Judges hit Trump lawyer with tough questions over revised travel ban.”

Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press reports that “Travel ban arguments focus on Trump’s comments about Muslims.”

Josh Gerstein and Nolan D. McCaskill of Politico.com report that “Judges press Trump’s lawyer on intent of travel ban reboot; Worst-case scenarios were the order of the day.”

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Trump’s Muslim Ban Comments Continue To Make Defending His Executive Order In Court Difficult.”

C-SPAN has posted the audio of today’s en banc Fourth Circuit oral argument at this link.

“SCOTUS case will test Justice Gorsuch’s appetite for class action limits”:
Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post today.

“10 conservatives selected for federal courts as part of Trump’s move to reshape judiciary”: Dave Boyer of The Washington Times has this report.

Vivian Salama of The Associated Press reports that “Trump moves to get more conservatives on federal bench.”

And Seung Min Kim of Politico.com reports that “Democrats take on Trump over court vacancies; Republican senators aren’t willing to give the president more power to get his nominees installed.”

Today, the White House issued a news release titled “President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Candidate Nominations.”

Programming note: On Monday, I will be attending my son’s college graduation ceremony. As a result, new posts are unlikely to appear here until Monday night.

In the interim, as always while I am away from the computer, more frequent appellate-related retweets likely will appear at this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Trump to Announce Slate of Conservative Federal Court Nominees”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Trump’s revised travel ban faces legal challenges in courtrooms on both coasts”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

At 2:30 p.m. eastern time on Monday, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral argument in one of the two cases. Both C-SPAN and the Fourth Circuit have promised to stream live audio feeds of the oral argument.

“Abortion Foes See Ally in Trump, but Wonder: Will He Go Far Enough?” Jeremy W. Peters had this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Trump Admin’s Advice to Supreme Court in Copyright Case Is a True Mind-Bender; Although a ‘significant legal error’ has supposedly been made — copyright holders must consider fair use before sending takedown notices — the Acting Solicitor General tells the high court to reject a review of baby-dancing-to-Prince”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

“A Travel Ban’s Foe: A Young Firebrand and Her Pro Bono Brigade.” Miriam Jordan of The New York Times has this report.

“‘The language of the law’ is not actually a language”: Neal Goldfarb has this interesting post at his blog, “LAWnLinguistics.”

“Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans”: Richard Fausset of The New York Times has this report.

“The steady decline of America’s death rows”: Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

“Fight Brews Over Push to Shield Americans in Warrantless Surveillance”: Charlie Savage has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Locked Up for Being Poor”: Today’s edition of The New York Times contains this editorial about a ruling that Chief U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal (S.D. Tex.) issued late last month.

“Front-runner to lead Justice Department civil rights defended Abercrombie in Supreme Court discrimination case”: Sari Horwitz of The Washington Post has this report.

“Nebraska Supreme Court sets precedent by ruling that some judicial records are public”: Joe Duggan of The Omaha World-Herald has this report.

And Lori Pilger of The Lincoln Journal Star has an article headlined “Supreme Court: Judges’ training documents are public record.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Nebraska at this link.

15 years of “How Appealing”: I launched this blog on May 6, 2002. And now, tens of thousands of posts later, this blog today is marking its 15th birthday!

If you missed them, you can access my recent posts thanking this blog’s amazing readers and offering some personal reflections.

“KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge, ruminating:” Today, Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski has once again invented a new type of separate opinion.

“Court revives black TV network’s discrimination lawsuit”: The Associated Press has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

Back in December 2015, The News & Record of Greensboro, North Carolina reported on the dismissal of the suit in an article headlined “Judge dismisses Black Network Television lawsuit against Greensboro.”

“License to Speak: The state of Oregon is abusing its authority to regulate professional services to silence its critics.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online today at The Atlantic.

“Clarence Thomas: Sen. Danforth is ‘the reason why I’m here.'” Jim Salter of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reunited Friday with his mentor and the man who stood beside him through a difficult confirmation hearing, telling former Missouri Sen. John Danforth he owes him his career.”

“Tennessee ‘natural meaning’ law raises fears in LGBT community”: Chris Kenning of Reuters has this report.

“A Trump Executive Order to Shrug At: The statement on religious liberty is so watered down, it’s almost meaningless.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online today at Bloomberg View.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Postscript.” Aaron Nielson has this post –which includes a shout-out to “How Appealing” — today at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.