“Blame the Supreme Court for Letting the Feds Target Legal State Pot: The awful precedents that helped empower Attorney General Jeff Sessions.” Damon Root has this post at Reason.com’s “Hit & Run” blog.

“US appeals panel rules 2-1 backing gun ban in domestic cases”: Dan Sewell of The Associated Press has this report.

My earlier coverage of today’s Sixth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“Supreme Court: ‘Monster house’ in McKennan must meet historical standards.” Patrick Anderson of The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, South Dakota has this report.

And Christopher Vondracek of Courthouse News Service reports that “$1 Million ‘Monster House’ Must Go, Court Rules.”

You can access Wednesday’s ruling of the Supreme Court of South Dakota at this link.

“Interview: Adrienne C. Nelson, first black Oregon Supreme Court justice.” KATU-2 of Portland, Oregon has posted this interview online.

“The Supreme Court Case That Could ‘Overturn the Heart of the New Deal’; And though the Court will rule before July, hardly anyone has noticed it”: Simon Lazarus has this article online at The American Prospect.

“Wyo. Supreme Court exhibit to highlight successes of women in the law”: Katie Kull of The Wyoming Tribune Eagle has this report.

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: New Year, New Hires; And some justices have already hired all their 2019-2020 clerks as well.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

“With billions at stake, Supreme Court urged to revisit ruling shielding internet purchases from sales tax”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds rules against spontaneous protests at DIA; Protesters claimed First and Fourteenth Amendment rights violated”: Kieran Nicholson of The Denver Post has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued today.

“Two Ways of Looking at Gerrymandering”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Roy Moore accuser Leigh Corfman files lawsuit against him for defamation”: Paul Gattis of Alabama Media Group has this report.

And Beth Reinhard of The Washington Post reports that “Woman who accused Roy Moore of sexual misconduct sues him for defamation.”

You can view the complaint initiating suit at this link.

“Trump’s Stellar Judges: A promising reorientation of the judiciary has begun.” Edward Whelan will have this article in the January 22, 2018 issue of National Review.

“The Chevron–State Farm Framework: A New Age for Hard Look Review at Step Two?” Law professor Catherine M. Sharkey has this post at the Harvard Law Review Blog, along with a related post titled “Catskill Mountains: A Spotlight On The Problem of Judicial Acquiescence To Agency Statutory Interpretations, and the Chevron–State Farm Solution.”

“9th Circuit strikes down most of Idaho’s ‘ag gag’ law; The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has mostly struck down Idaho’s ‘ag gag’ law criminalizing secret records of farm activities”: Mateusz Perkowski of Capital Press has this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

Majority on divided three-judge Sixth Circuit panel upholds constitutionality of the domestic violence misdemeanant restriction on firearms possession: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link. Senior Circuit Judge Danny J. Boggs issued this dissenting opinion.

“Use it or lose it: Should voters who don’t vote stay on voter rolls? An Ohio voter-purge case with national implications comes before the Supreme Court.” Steven Mazie of The Economist has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Quiet Assault on Civil Rights”: U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman (E.D. Wis.) has this article in the Fall 2017 issue of Dissent magazine.

“Ohio Voter Challenges Election Roll Purge in Supreme Court Clash”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.