“VW, class counsel ask 9th Circuit to refuse fees for ‘ghost lawyers'”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

Judge King rules against Texas death row inmate King: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued this ruling today.

“Reward increased to $1.5M for info on killer of federal prosecutor Tom Wales; The appearance of U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during a Wednesday news conference underscores the high priority the Justice Department has placed on the 16-year-old case”: Mike Carter and Steve Miletich of The Seattle Times have this report.

And James Fallows of The Atlantic has an article headlined “A Cryptic Addition to a Long-Standing Murder Mystery: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein flew to Seattle for a press conference at which he announced little, but may have said a great deal.”

“Public Unions vs. the First Amendment: The Supreme Court has a chance to correct a 50-year-old mistake.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

In addition, The Wall Street Journal has posted online an essay by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman titled “Mark Janus Was With Hillary, Whether or Not He Wanted to Be; Unions compel public employees to support political candidates — and even the metric system.”

“In Win for Justice Minister, Israel Appoints U.S. Professor as Supreme Court Judge; Prof. Stein chosen despite criticism he hasn’t lived in Israel for past 15 years; Judge Ofer Grosskopf granted second Supreme Court appointment”: Revital Hovel of Haaretz has this report.

And Yonah Jeremy Bob of The Jerusalem Post reports that “Supreme Court gets more conservative with appointment of two new justices; Shaked and Hayut reached a deal on two justices: Stein for Shaked, and Grosskopf for Hayut.”

“U.S., Microsoft fight over access to digital data stored overseas reaches Supreme Court”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Clarence Thomas should be removed from Supreme Court, Charlotte accuser says”: Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer has this report.

“A Supreme Court shaped by Trump could decide gun control”: Columnist Charles Lane has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“A Supreme Court Showdown Could Shrink Unions’ Power”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Prisoners Lose Out in High Court Attorneys’ Fees Battle”: Kimberly Robinson and Madison Alder of Bloomberg BNA have this report.

“Argument analysis: What makes wiretap orders ‘insufficient’?” Richard M. Re has this guest post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Supreme Court Clinic’s Efforts Culminate as Heytens Argues City of Hays; Law Student Who Worked on Case Watches Arguments Play Out”: University of Virginia School of Law student Rebecca Sciarrino has this report.

“How Don McGahn Has Become the Worst White House Counsel Ever”: Cristian Farias has this post at the “Daily Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“U.S. Supreme Court again asked to stop Pennsylvania voting map”: Lyle Denniston has this post at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center.

“Unions sound alarm as Supreme Court takes up fees fight; Gorsuch seen as pivotal vote”: Bill Mears of FoxNews.com has this report.

And at ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Neil Gorsuch is about to pay back the people who got him a sweet job in Washington; Republicans are poised to use their stolen Supreme Court seat to break public sector unions.”

“Justices Air Differences on Value of Congressional Reports; High court appears as divided as ever on giving weight to legislative history”: Todd Ruger of Roll Call has this report.

“An Essay Concerning Some Problems with the Constitutional-Doubt Canon”: Attorney Benjamin M. Flowers has this essay at the Washington and Lee Law Review Online.

“The Travel Ban, Article II, and the Nondelegation Doctrine”: Josh Blackman has this post at the “Lawfare” blog.

“SCOTUS cites CGEL (props to Justice Gorsuch and the Supreme Court Library)”: Neal Goldfarb has this post at his blog, “LAWnLinguistics.”

“What Clarence Thomas Gets Wrong About the Second Amendment: The justice’s consistent pro-gun arguments fail to reconcile rights with their lived consequences.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.