“Dean John Manning welcomes the Harvard Law School Class of 2020”: If you’re a brand new law student this fall, this video that Harvard Law School has posted on YouTube is worth watching.

“Neil Gorsuch’s appearance Thursday at a Trump hotel is raising eyebrows — and not for what he’s expected to say; Gorsuch’s speech to a conservative group at the Trump International Hotel in Washington risks looking like an endorsement of the president, critics say”: Mark K. Matthews of The Denver Post has this report.

“Supreme Court faces blockbuster term — and Trump”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Supreme Court Preview: What Is in Store for October Term 2017?” The Federalist Society has posted the video of this panel presentation from earlier today on YouTube at this link.

“Roy Moore’s Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection”: Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin of The New York Times have this report.

Online at The New York Times, Quin Hillyer has an essay titled “Alabama Disses the Establishment.”

And online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “Roy Moore Isn’t Just Defiant. He’s Dangerous. He twice lost his job for denying the supremacy of the Constitution. Is that a message the people of Alabama support?”

“The surprising connection between ‘take a knee’ protests and Citizens United”: Law professor Elizabeth C. Tippett has this post online at The Conversation.

“NFL targets entire Elliott suit in bid to restore 6-game ban”: Schuyler Dixon of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The NFL has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss Ezekiel Elliott’s entire lawsuit in its bid to lift an injunction that blocked the star Dallas Cowboys running back’s six-game suspension over a domestic violence case in Ohio.”

“Gorsuch’s speeches raise questions of independence, critics say”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Petitions to Watch For From SCOTUS’ Long Conference”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Sexism was a ‘major, major factor’ in Clinton’s loss to Trump, Justice Ginsburg says”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Big stakes in high court fight over partisan political maps”: Mark Sherman and Scott Bauer of The Associated Press have this report.

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Talks Shakespeare at Roundtable Event”: Montclair State University has issued this news release.

“No matter how you slice it, U.S. jurist Kennedy key vote in cake case”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Corporations Have Rights. Why Not Rivers?” In today’s edition of The New York Times, Julie Turkewitz has an article that begins, “Does a river — or a plant, or a forest — have rights? This is the essential question in what attorneys are calling a first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit, in which a Denver lawyer and a far-left environmental group are asking a judge to recognize the Colorado River as a person.”

“Gorsuch Vote Could Revive Public Union Fees Case This Week”: Hassan A. Kanu of Bloomberg BNA has this report.

“Smithsonian gives Clarence Thomas a spot in year-old African American history museum”: Bradford Richardson of The Washington Times has this report.