“Stabenow, Peters let Joan Larsen nomination move forward”: Todd Spangler of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

In today’s edition of The Detroit News, Melissa Nann Burke has a front page article headlined “Mich. senators let Trump appeals judge choice advance.”

And Lauren Gibbons of MLive.com reports that “Stabenow, Peters turn in blue slips for Joan Larsen federal court nomination.”

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: Who Says August is a Quiet Month?” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Trump’s Real Personnel Victory: More Conservative Judges.” Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

Also online at The New Yorker, Jelani Cobb has a post titled “In Trump’s World, Whites Are the Only Disadvantaged Class.”

And Amy Davidson Sorkin has a post titled “Why Trump’s Phone Call with Australia’s Prime Minister Will Haunt Him in Court.”