“Eight years after Obama’s unusual State of the Union attack, Citizens United endures”: James Varney of The Washington Times has this report.

“Koch-aligned group already prepping for next Supreme Court fight”: Katie Glueck of McClatchy DC has this report.

“Supreme Court may deal major blow to labor unions”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Justice Alito Has Not Yet Acted on Pa. Congressional Gerrymandering Stay Request from Pa. Legislative Republicans. Why?” Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”

“Questions That Mueller Might Ask Trump: The most consequential could involve the President’s understanding of the rule of law.” Amy Davidson Sorkin will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the February 5, 2018 issue of The New Yorker.

Online at The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a post titled “The Answer to Whether Trump Obstructed Justice Now Seems Clear.”

And law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has a post titled “Donald Trump’s Brain Is a Catch-22.”

“There Is No Retroactivity Concern With Overruling Quill”: Law professor Daniel Hemel has this post at Medium.com.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: ‘The judgment of the D.C. Circuit is therefore reversed . . . .'” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Ginsburg, Gorsuch Don’t Play Well Together”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”

“Ethics, race, bias among advice Sotomayor gives UH law students; Supreme Court justice answers questions, tells law students to get involved in issues”: Lindsay Ellis of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

And Al Ortiz of Houston Public Radio reports that “Justice Sotomayor Talks About Achieving Meaningful Changes, Personal Challenges At UH; The U.S. Supreme Court Justice participated in a discussion with faculty members and students at UH’s Law Center.”

“Meet The Folksiest Man In The U.S. Senate: Sweet biscuits of mercy — it’s Sen. John Neely Kennedy.” Igor Bobic of HuffPost has this report.

“Wendy Vitter, with one exception, might have what it takes to be federal judge”: Drew Broach has this front page article in today’s edition of The Times-Picayune.

“The Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Dilemma: The justices face a historic choice regarding presidential power.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.