“Arkansas Supreme Court candidates see ‘politics’ differently”: John Moritz has this front page article in today’s edition of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

“As predicted by the Chief Justice in his Dimaya dissent, convictions under 924(c) starting to fall”: So notes a reader of this blog via email, citing this opinion that a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued on Friday.

“DACA and the danger of conflicting injunctions; Will the federal courts issue directly clashing national injunctions about DACA?” Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Anna Salvatore examines Elena Kagan’s writings for The Daily Princetonian: In this post at the “High School SCOTUS” blog.

“In Bennett’s Battle to Destroy the Supreme Court, Kahlon Won’t Play His Assigned Role; When Kahlon announced that he would force his party members to vote against the bill attacking the Supreme Court, he found himself — once again — the gatekeeper for democracy”: Yossi Verter has this essay online at Haaretz.

“Thomas Balmer’s term up as chief justice of Oregon Supreme Court”: Brad Schmidt of The Oregonian has this report.

“Trump’s judges are flexing their muscles, from civil rights to campaign spending”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Hurdles In Retrial Of Michael Skakel In Martha Moxley Murder Include Drug Addiction, Suspected Brother”: Edmund H. Mahony has this front page article in today’s edition of The Hartford Courant.

“Ministers approve Supreme Court override bill; Coalition still does not have a majority to approve the bill in a Knesset vote”: Lahav Harkov of The Jerusalem Post has this report.

Chaim Levinson and Jonathan Lis of Haaretz report that “Israeli Ministers Back Legislation to Curtail Top Court’s Powers; Netanyahu declined to use veto and postpone discussion after threats by coalition partners; Bill now heads to Knesset for vote.”

Raoul Wootliff of The Times of Israel reports that “Opposition skewers bill to rein in High Court; Kahlon vows to block it; Finance minister says he won’t let ‘extreme factions’ dictate agenda; Gabbay says ministers will be remembered for turning Israel into ‘Erdogan’s Turkey.’”

And Jeffrey Heller of Reuters reports that “Israeli legislation reining in Supreme Court wins preliminary approval.”

“Assistant Attorney General Beth Williams Delivers Remarks on Judicial Nominations to American Academy of Appellate Lawyers’ 2018 Spring Meeting”: In case you missed it (as I did until now), the U.S. Department of Justice has posted online the text of this speech delivered three weeks ago in New Orleans.

“Waterloo judge announces retirement from Iowa Supreme Court”: Amie Steffen of The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier has this report.

“Reynolds signs Iowa’s fetal heartbeat law, but it faces long, uncertain legal future”: Erin Murphy has this front page article in today’s edition of The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

“He lied about who he was. She agreed to have sex blindfolded. That doesn’t count as consent, rules Iowa’s Supreme Court.” Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Des Moines Register has this report.

And David Pitt of The Associated Press reports that “Man who tricked woman into blindfolded sex loses appeal.”

You can access Friday’s 4-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Iowa at this link. That court also posted online the briefs filed in the case and the oral argument video, which you can access via this link.

On May 6, 2002 — 16 years ago today — the blog “How Appealing” came into existence: Which means that, in the intervening years, I have written 15 annual posts commemorating this blog’s birthday. One of my favorites thus far was the post I wrote on this blog’s first birthday, on May 6, 2003.

Because this blog has been fortunate to gain so many new readers since then, instead of yammering on at length about how grateful I am to have you among this blog’s readership, I cordially invite everyone to read (or re-read) the heartfelt post that I wrote on the occasion of this blog’s very first birthday.