“Court says border agents need suspicion to search cellphones”: Denise Lavoie of The Associated Press has this report.

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Orin Kerr has a post titled “Important Fourth Circuit Ruling on Cell Phone Border Searches; The court requires some level of cause and also adds a nexus requirement.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

“Arizona Supreme Court to consider use of effluent at Snowbowl”: Howard Fischer of The Arizona Daily Star has this report.

“Federal appeals court hears Portlander’s challenge of no-fly list”: Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian has this report on a case argued today before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The Ninth Circuit has posted the video of the oral argument on YouTube at this link.

“Appeals Court Bars U.S. From Transferring American ISIS Suspect”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today unsealed the opinion whose outcome that court announced on Monday.

“Here’s How The Supreme Court Already Repealed The Second Amendment: The Supreme Court effectively repealed the Second Amendment in District of Columbia v. Heller by restricting the amendment to common arms.” Mark Overstreet has this post online at The Federalist.

“Forget Those Avengers. RBG, the New Doc on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Is the Best Superhero Movie of the Year”: Glenn McDonald of Indy Week of Durham, North Carolina has this movie review (4 stars).

And online at The New York Jewish Week, high school junior Sara Khodadadian has an essay titled “What Makes Her Supreme: With the new film, RBG, now in theaters, I decided to reflect on why Justice Ginsburg is in fact, notorious.”

“The Republican Senate and rushed judicial confirmations”: Law professor Carl Tobias has this essay online at The Hill.

“Dem Groups Are Ratcheting Up the Judicial Wars — And They’re Targeting Fellow Democrats; The Senate is about to cross a procedural Rubicon; And a trio of organizations believe a price should be paid for it”: Sam Stein of The Daily Beast has this report.

“With 15 circuit judge confirmations and a dozen pending, Trump looks to reshape the courts”: In today’s edition of The Washington Times, Alex Swoyer has an article that begins, “President Trump has won confirmation of 15 circuit court judges, but he still has a long way to go in reshaping the courts because most of those picks have replaced retiring Republicans rather than adding to the party’s overall numbers.”

“Trump’s longest-waiting circuit court pick to get confirmation vote this week”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

And Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost reports that “Mitch McConnell Bends The Rules Again To Confirm Trump’s Judges; He is going around Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin to put Michael Brennan into a lifetime court seat in her state.”

“7 things to know about Kurt Engelhardt, newest judge of 5th U.S. Circuit Court”: Drew Broach of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

Bryn Stole of The New Orleans Advocate reports that “Senate confirms New Orleans federal Judge Kurt Engelhardt for 5th Circuit Court of Appeals promotion.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Senate confirms Trump’s 16th circuit court judge.” In the 16 years that this blog has been in existence, I apparently have been derelict in failing to report on the rulings of the 16th circuit.

“Senators grill Oregon federal prosecutor during judicial confirmation hearing”: Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian has this report.

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “GOP moves ahead with judicial nominee for the 9th Circuit over Democrats’ objections.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Democrats press Trump nominee to influential appeals court.”

Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Ninth Circuit Nominee Apologizes for Past Writings on Diversity, Race.”

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Republicans Have A Plan To Push Through Trump’s Judicial Nominees, And There’s Little Democrats Can Do To Stop Them; Democrats accuse Republicans of ceding too much power to Trump when it comes to judicial nominees.”

You can view the video of today’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing via this link.

As though mourning the demise of the blue slip, Ninth Circuit nominee Ryan Wesley Bounds choked back tears at least three times during the portion of his testimony that I watched this morning. No doubt thanks to the law enforcement background that they have in common, I couldn’t help but think of Deputy Andy Brennan from Twin Peaks, the paradigm of the empathetic lawman.

“Judicial Crisis Network’s new ad targets powerful women. Coincidence?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Ninja Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Fun With Fame; The star of the documentary ‘RBG’ has embraced her popularity as another tool in her effort to help women advance.” Melena Ryzik will have this article in the Arts & Leisure section of this upcoming Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“How Gender Bias Subtly Influences Supreme Court Decisions: New research suggests male justices are more receptive to appeals that line up with gender stereotypes.” Tom Jacobs of Pacific Standard has this report about a research paper titled “The Role of Gender Norms in Judicial Decision-Making at the U.S. Supreme Court: The Case of Male and Female Justices” by Shane A. Gleason, Jennifer J. Jones, and Jessica Rae McBean.

“Nevada Supreme Court hears arguments for using untested paralytic drug in death penalty case”: David Montero of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

David Ferrara of The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that “Inmate who wants to die awaits Nevada Supreme Court decision.”

And Scott Sonner of The Associated Press reports that “Nevada Supreme Court mulls allowing 1st execution since 2006.”

“Rare Federal Death Penalty Trial Begins for Two Accused of Yosemite Kidnappings, Murders”: The Associated Press had this report back in September 2006.

Next, in January 2007, Peter Y. Hong of The Los Angeles Times reported that “Federal jury finds businessmen guilty in kidnapping, killing of five.” And Greg Risling of The Associated Press reported that “2 Guilty in Calif. Reservoir Bodies Case.”

Today, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this lengthy decision affirming the defendants’ convictions and resulting death sentences.

“Putting Justice Gorsuch to the Test of Three Legal Editing Programs”: Robert Ambrogi has this post at his “Law Sites” blog.

“Good Riddance to ‘Blue Slips'”: David Lat has this essay online at The New York Times.

“How a Supreme Court Decision This Spring Could Cut Union Rolls by 726,000; A new study says the expected outcome of the Janus case will shrink public-sector labor unions in 23 states”: Eric Morath has this post at the “Real Time Economics” blog of The Wall Street Journal.

View this morning’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for judicial nominees, including Ninth Circuit nominee Ryan Wesley Bounds: Via this link.