“Alabama Senate loss will rein in Trump’s judicial selections”: Law professor Jonathan R. Nash has this essay online at The Hill.

“Tweet-loving Justice Don Willett confirmed for federal appeals court”: Nicole Cobler of The Dallas Morning News has this report.

Kevin Diaz of The Houston Chronicle reports that “White House drops Jeff Mateer, while Senate confirms Texas Justice Willett to federal bench.”

And Emma Platoff of The Texas Tribune reports that “Texan Don Willett confirmed by U.S. Senate to federal 5th Circuit Court.”

You can access the U.S. Senate‘s official roll call vote tally confirming Don R. Willett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by a vote of 50-to-47 at this link.

“Breaking the law clerks’ code of silence: the sexual misconduct claims against Judge Kozinski.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“What’s Next After the Kozinski Allegations? Here’s How Courts Handle Misconduct Claims; In the normal judicial misconduct case, a federal appeals court would handle the complaint internally; But the sexual misconduct allegations against Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit pose complications for the courts, according to judicial ethics experts.” Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Trump judge nominee withdraws after criticism over White House ties; Brett Talley, deemed ‘not qualified’ by bar panel, had not tried a court case”: Josh Gerstein of Politico.com has this report.

“On Judge Kozinski & Open Secrets”: Charlotte Garden has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

“Trump’s race to remake federal courts proves divisive”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“He Made Us All Victims and Accomplices: For 20 years, I’ve felt it was too early to speak up about Judge Alex Kozinski; Now I fear it’s too late.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Judges, Law Clerks, and the Professors Who Recommend Them”: Josh Blackman has this blog post.

“This Won’t Be the Last We’ve Heard of Roy Moore: He was twice removed as Alabama’s chief justice, and twice returned to run again; What’s to stop him now?” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“WV Supreme Court grants access to warehouse housing antique desk, leather couch”: Phil Kabler of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail has an article that begins, “After two weeks of denying Gazette-Mail requests to tour its warehouse in Kanawha City, the Supreme Court Tuesday provided media access to the facility, currently housing an antique walnut ‘Cass Gilbert’ desk and a leather couch recently removed from the home of Chief Justice Allen Loughry.”

“Trump Poised to Set Record for Appeals Court Judges; Three more nominees set to be confirmed this week”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call recently had this report.

“A Comment on Some Misplaced and Dangerous Slippery-Slope Concerns About Masterpiece Cakeshop”: Asher Steinberg has this post at his blog, “The Narrowest Grounds.”

View live, online the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee‘s confirmation hearing for Eleventh Circuit nominee Elizabeth L. Branch: Via this link.

Access online the text of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh‘s remarks at the 2017 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture hosted by American Enterprise Institute: At this link.

And for those of you who like to watch, AEI has posted the video of Judge Kavanaugh’s remarks on YouTube at this link (and a transcript of the event at this link).

“The Volokh Conspiracy” blog has relocated from The Washington Post to Reason.com: Where you can access it as often as you want with no paywall. The blog’s home page can now be accessed here.

“Jones wins in stunning Alabama upset”: Kim Chandler and Steve Peoples of The Associated Press have a report that begins, “In a stunning victory aided by scandal, Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election on Tuesday, beating back history, an embattled Republican opponent and President Donald Trump, who urgently endorsed GOP rebel Roy Moore despite a litany of sexual misconduct allegations.”

“Brendan Dassey faces ‘longshot’ in getting his case to Supreme Court”: Andy Thompson of The Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent has this report.

“How Columbia and NYU Law Schools Position Graduates for US Supreme Court Clerkships; In the New York market, Columbia and NYU law schools have become a pipeline to the Supreme Court and often it is a result of the efforts of Chief Judge Robert Katzmann and the rest of the Second Circuit”: Susan DeSantis of the New York Law Journal has this report.

“Montreal native Richard Wagner named Supreme Court chief justice; Wagner is a self-declared advocate of judicial independence, once saying that ‘the judiciary is only accountable to the person subject to trial'”: Brian Platt of The Montreal Gazette has this report.

Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that “Richard Wagner named new Supreme Court chief justice.”

Tonda MacCharles of The Toronto Star reports that “Justin Trudeau names Richard Wagner new chief justice of Canada; The Montreal-born Wagner, 60, a former commercial and civil law litigator and judge on Quebec’s trial and appeal courts, means Trudeau has opted to stick to the custom of rotating the plum chief justice job between common law and civil law judges.”

Kathleen Harris and Aaron Wherry of CBC News reports that “Quebec jurist Richard Wagner named next Supreme Court chief justice; Successor to Beverley McLachlin praised for wisdom, integrity and ‘collegial spirit.’”

And The Canadian Press reports that “Justin Trudeau appoints Richard Wagner next Supreme Court chief justice; The current chief justice, Beverley McLachlin, is stepping down after 28 years on the court.”

“At the Supreme Court, the cake baker’s reasoning falls flat”: The Washington Post has published this editorial.

“Judicial Nominees Could Erase the #MeToo Moment”: Nan Aron has this essay online at HuffPost.

“Omaha attorney Steve Grasz confirmed to seat on 8th Circuit Court, despite Democrats’ questions about his ability to be impartial”: Joseph Morton of The Omaha World-Herald has this report.

Don Walton of The Lincoln Journal Star reports that “Nebraska judicial nominee Grasz confirmed for appeals court on 50-48 vote.”

And Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost reports that “Senate Confirms Federal Judge Rated ‘Not Qualified’ To Serve; Republicans voted to put Leonard Steven Grasz onto a circuit court for life, despite his abysmal American Bar Association rating.”

“Can We Get Rid of Alex Kozinski? So far, the judge for the Ninth Circuit has shown no inclination of leaving in response to allegations brought by six women.” Columnist Vivia Chen has this essay online at The American Lawyer.

He’s qualified now: Kevin Freking of The Associated Press reports that “Senate OKs Trump judicial pick who was rated ‘not qualified.’”

You can access the U.S. Senate‘s official roll call vote tally confirming Steven Grasz to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit by a margin of 50-to-48 at this link.

“Trump Is Suddenly Facing A Significant Republican Roadblock For Two Of His Judicial Nominees”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“HLS in the World (Opening Ceremony): Introduction of Justices and Remarks by Chief Justice Roberts.” Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.

“Law Schools Should Protect Students From Judges Like Alex Kozinski”: Law professor Dara E. Purvis has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Grassley urges Trump to reconsider controversial judicial picks”: Ted Barrett, David Shortell, and Ariane de Vogue of CNN.com have this report.

“Appeals panel upholds dismissal of defamation suit against Trump”: Julia Marsh of The New York Post has this report.

Chris Dolmetsch of Bloomberg News reports that “New York Court Upholds Dismissal of Defamation Suit Against Trump.”

And at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Donald Trump Wins Appeal Over Allegedly Defamatory Tweets; A New York appeals court won’t revive a lawsuit from political strategist Cheryl Jacobus, who, Trump wrote, ‘begged’ him for a job.”

You can access today’s ruling of the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, at this link.

“Being a Federal Appellate Judge Isn’t Quite as Glamorous as One Might Expect”: This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column appears in today’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

In a closely related development, I just received an email bearing the subject line “NOW you tell me” from someone who has served as a federal appellate judge for more than thirty years.

“ACLU v. Mattis and the Citizen Enemy Combatant in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld”: Amanda L. Tyler has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“Supreme Court clerks are not a particularly diverse lot”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“The Fourth Circuit Travel Ban Argument: Framing the Challengers’ Case for the Supreme Court.” Peter Margulies has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

Also at that blog, Josh Blackman has a related post titled “For Judges, ‘Legality’ Is Their Only ‘Reality.’”

“SF court cool to Trump administration attempt to quash youths’ climate suit”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Casey Tolan of The San Jose Mercury News reports that “Kids’ climate change lawsuit against Trump administration lands in San Francisco court.”

And Zahra Hirji of BuzzFeed News reports that “The Trump Administration Just Went To Court To Stop Kids From Suing Over Climate Change.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted the video of yesterday’s oral argument on YouTube at this link.