“Should There Be Age Limits for Federal Judges? A dialogue on when it’s time to remove jurists from the bench.” Slate has posted online this jurisprudence essay, consisting of a conversation between Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner and Senior U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.), moderated by Joel Cohen.

“Marriage Equality May Soon Be in Peril: How the Supreme Court could overturn Obergefell v. Hodges.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“For a More Regulated Internet, Thank Canada; The U.S. does little to control online content, but companies may be forced to change anyway”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“The Most Important Question for Trump Judicial Nominees: How much executive authority do they think the president has?” Law professor Peter M. Shane has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“America’s Future Is Texas: With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.” Lawrence Wright has this article in the July 10, 2017 issue of The New Yorker.

“California Supreme Court makes it harder for three-strike prisoners to get sentence reductions”: Maura Dolan has this front page article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times reporting on a 4-to-3 ruling that the Supreme Court of California issued on Monday.

“The Second Amendment Issue the Supreme Court Can’t Avoid: The court chose not to hear a major case on concealed weapons, but pressure is mounting to remove state barriers.” Matt Valentine has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“‘Little guys’ won big at Supreme Court this year”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Gorsuch Makes a Mark on the Court: Thomas, the consistent originalist, seems to have found a fellow traveler in his new colleague.” Law professors Sai Prakash and John Yoo have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“After 58 Years, Lyle Denniston Says Goodbye to the Supreme Court”: Jesse Wegman has this Editorial Observer essay in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Confident and Assertive, Gorsuch Hurries to Make His Mark”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“OT2016 #27: ‘Not Respectfully.'” You can access today’s new episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and Dan Epps, via this link.

“Happy 12th Birthday to the Southern District of Florida Blog”: David Oscar Markus had this post yesterday at his “Southern District of Florida Blog.”

“Supreme Court blockbusters: Gorsuch addition will bring on bigger cases.” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Justice Gorsuch Delivers”: This editorial appeared in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Congressional oversight of drone strikes a ‘joke,’ judge says”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

And Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “Appeals court throws out lawsuit over drone strike deaths.”

You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit at this link.

“The Supreme Court Is the Last Leakproof Institution: The last day of the term was full of news, as always, but none of it slipped out ahead of time.” Law professor Stephen L. Carter recently had this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Breakfast Table Redux: Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, and Pamela Karlan chew over the recently completed Supreme Court term.” Slate has posted online this new installment of its “Amicus” podcast featuring Dahlia Lithwick.

“Leave the SCOTUS ghostwriters alone (SCOTUS Symposium)”: Will Baude has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“Justice Neil Gorsuch Votes 100 Percent Of The Time With Most Conservative Colleague”: Nina Totenberg of NPR has this audio segment.

“The best thing Chief Justice Roberts wrote this term wasn’t a Supreme Court opinion”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Chief Justice Roberts quoted this little-known 19th-century lawmaker in siding with religious institutions in church-state decision”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

“K-12 and the U.S. Supreme Court: Highlights of the 2016-17 Term.” Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

Access the July 2017 MoloLamken Supreme Court Business Briefing: At this link.

Programming note: This afternoon, I will be concluding my visit to northern California by visiting Oakland to watch the Athletics host the Atlanta Braves at the Oakland Coliseum. A preview of the game can be accessed here.

Having managed to begin and end my visit to California with Major League Baseball games (sandwiched between my visit to the Ninth Circuit‘s headquarters), tomorrow I will be heading home. Regular blogging will resume on Wednesday, with occasional updates appearing between now and then. As always while I am traveling, more frequent appellate-related retweets will appear on this blog’s twitter feed.

“Texas Supreme Court: No inherent right to gay marriage benefits.” Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.

Lauren McGaughy of The Dallas Morning News reports that “Texas Supreme Court rules gay couples not guaranteed spousal benefits.”

Rebecca Elliott of The Houston Chronicle reports that “Paxton cheers Texas Supreme Court ruling on same-sex benefits.”

Alexa Ura of The Houston Chronicle reports that “Texas Supreme Court throws out ruling that favored same-sex marriage benefits.”

Jim Vertuno of The Associated Press reports that “Texas court questions right of benefits for gay spouses.”

Jon Herskovitz of Reuters reports that “Top Texas court sides against same-sex couple marriage benefits.”

Dominic Holden of BuzzFeed News reports that “Texas Supreme Court Says It’s Still Not Clear What Rights Same-Sex Couples Have.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Texas Messes With Marriage Equality: The state Supreme Court’s refusal to extend state spousal benefits to same-sex couples is an insidious attempt to defy Obergefell v. Hodges.”

You can access Friday’s unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court of Texas at this link.