“Top Ten Things I Am Thankful For On Thanksgiving”: Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf (D. Neb.) has this post at “Simple Justice.” The post includes a shout-out to #AppellateTwitters, in a footnote no less.

“Conservatives have a breathtaking plan for Trump to pack the courts”: Ronald A. Klain has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Judges Over Principles: The never-Trump legal movement has morphed into a push to pack the courts with Trump-selected judges.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Why the Law Might Not Allow the Senate to Expel Roy Moore”: Stan Brand has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality”: Law professor Tim Wu has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Fighting Gay Rights and Abortion With the First Amendment”: Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times has this report.

“Against the positive law model in the Carpenter cell-site case”: Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“U.S. appeals court revives claims in $1.7 billion Iran terrorism lawsuit”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued yesterday.

“Let’s Settle the Legality of DACA Now; The Trump administration can bypass lower courts by asking the Supreme Court to hear an Arizona case”: Law professor Josh Blackman has this essay online at National Review.

“Appeals court skeptical of privacy-focused suit against Trump voter fraud panel”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this blog post about a case argued yesterday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

You can access the oral argument audio via this link (28.6 MB mp3 audio file).

“Former UMKC lecturer sues over class cancellation; Henry Lyons claims he was improperly punished after calling attention to alleged academic irregularities involving an athlete at UMKC”: Dave Helling of The Kansas City Star had this article back in July 2013.

Today, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this decision ordering the dismissal of the lecturer’s damages claims.

Majority on divided three-judge Second Circuit panel rules against Almighty Supreme Born Allah: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

In early news coverage, Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that “Award reversed for Connecticut inmate who challenged confinement.”