“Condemned inmate Duane Buck escapes death penalty”: Brian Rogers of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

Alex Arriaga of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texas death row inmate Duane Buck has sentence reduced to life after Supreme Court orders retrial.”

And Matthew Haag of The New York Times reports that “Texas Man’s Death Sentence Thrown Out Over Racist Testimony.”

“Trump Administration Set to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate”: Robert Pear will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Reforming Richard Posner: The Former Federal Judge Needs to Overhaul His Assessment of the Seventh Circuit’s Staff Attorney Program and Correct the Errors in His Book.” Zoran (Zoki) Tasic has posted this interesting article on Google Drive.

“Dear Senators: the Third Circuit’s shortage of women judges is a crisis.” Matthew Stiegler has this post at his “CA3blog.”

“The Supreme Court’s Gerrymandering Case and Strategies for Winning Justice Kennedy’s Vote”: Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“D.C. will not appeal concealed carry gun ruling to Supreme Court”: Peter Jamison and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report.

And Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “DC officials won’t appeal ruling against strict gun law.”

“Assessing the ACLU Habeas Petition on Behalf of the Unnamed US Citizen Held as an Enemy Combatant in Iraq”: Robert Chesney has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

And yesterday at the “Just Security” blog, Steve Vladeck had a post titled “The Increasingly Unsettling Indifference Toward the US Citizen ‘Enemy Combatant.’”

“Administration says Supreme Court should stop review of past travel bans”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Trump urges Supreme Court to drop travel ban case.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Challengers urge Supreme Court to rule on Trump travel ban.”

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “The Trump Administration Wants The Supreme Court To Toss Orders That Blocked The Earlier Travel Ban.”

“U.S. court reverses ban on sale of Sanofi, Regeneron drug Praluent”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued today.

Update: Attorney Paul D. Clement argued the appeal for appellant, and if you want to be able to claim that Clement blinded you with science (added bonus, here’s the extended version) — discussing epitopes, antigens, amino acids, and more — you can access the oral argument audio via this link (12.4 MB mp3 audio file).

“Response to Richard Posner’s new book, by a former 7th Circuit staff attorney”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“I Heard the Voice of Scalia: Fans of the late Justice will treasure a new collection of his speeches.” Mark Pulliam has this post at the blog of the Library of Law and Liberty.

“Who Will Justice Kennedy Believe When It Comes to Gerrymandering?” David Daley has this post online at The New Yorker.

“The Justice Department Is Investigating Harvard’s Admissions Practices”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“The Long Reach of Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions”: Law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Justice Kennedy, The First Amendment, and Partisan Gerrymandering”: David Gans has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

At his “The Narrowest Grounds” blog, Asher Steinberg has a post titled “A Miscellany of Thoughts on Justice Kennedy’s Maximal-Partisanship Hypothetical in Gill.”

And at his “Modern Democracy” blog, Michael Parsons has a post titled “Turmeric for a Rare Consensus.”

“Partisan Gerrymandering Got the Sotomayor Treatment: The justice has a knack for crafting simple, devastating questions; She was at her best in Gill v. Whitford.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.