“George Conway’s Tweets Raise West Wing Eyebrows; The spicy Twitter feed of Kellyanne Conway’s husband has gotten noticed in the Oval Office; But friends say the real target of his ire isn’t Donald Trump”: Annie Karni has this profile, in which the Federalist Society and its role in the judicial nomination process receive lots of attention, online at Politico Magazine.
In today’s mail: I received a copy of law professor Eric M. Freedman‘s new book, “Making Habeas Work: A Legal History.”
“Trump fast-tracks appeals judges, but lags on lower courts”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.
“Will He Stay Or Will He Go? On Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s Rumored Retirement From The Supreme Court.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”
“‘RBG’ filmmaker discusses pioneer Supreme Court justice at Concord theater”: Leah Willingham of The Concord (N.H.) Monitor has this report.
“Ten Commandments at Arkansas Capitol stirs 2 lawsuits; Filers allege affront to their beliefs”: Linda Satter has this front page article in today’s edition of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
“Patrick Wyrick, state Supreme Court justice, faces flak over ties to Devon Energy, his residency and Sotomayor’s rebuke”: Justin Wingerter of The Oklahoman has this report.
You can view the video of yesterday’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for judicial nominees — which also featured Eleventh Circuit nominee (and current Georgia Supreme Court justice) Britt C. Grant — via this link.
“Michigan Supreme Court justice: Judges must cool rhetoric.” Ed White of The Associated Press has this report.
“The Supreme Court Did Workers a Favor; Class action lawsuits are the wrong way to settle employment disputes”: Law professor Samuel Estreicher has this essay online at Bloomberg View.
“Attention, America: We’ve All Been Saying Gerrymander Wrong; Elbridge Gerry, the New England politician whose political map inspired a cartoon, pronounced his name with a hard G.” Reid J. Epstein and Madeline Marshall will have this front page article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
“Epic’s epic fail: How a major Democratic donor betrayed liberal ideals in employment case.” Emily Mills has this essay online at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
And columnist Christian Schneider of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an essay titled “Supreme Court decision on unions gives Wisconsin liberals a dose of reality.”
“Court Uses Declaratory Judgment, Avoids Injunction to Get Trump to Unblock Twitter Followers: Will It Work?” Rick Hasen has this post at his “Election Law Blog.”
“Boyertown transgender students can use facilities based on their gender identity, appeals court rules; The federal appeals court rejected an appeal by four high school students who wanted to overturn the district’s bathroom policy”: Matt Carey of The Reading (Pa.) Eagle has this report.
Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “Appeals court OKs Boyertown schools’ policy letting transgender students use bathrooms of their choice.”
Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania reports that “Appeals court upholds Boyertown transgender bathroom policy.”
Claudia Lauer of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: School can let trans students use bathroom of choice.”
And at his “CA3blog,” Matthew Stiegler has a post titled “Court affirms in transgender-bathroom appeal . . . a half hour after oral argument.”
“Senate panel approves Abbott counsel Andrew Oldham for 5th Circuit Court”: Kevin Diaz of The Houston Chronicle has this report.
And Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Senate panel advances judicial nominees who drew controversy for Brown v. Board answer.”
“Conservatives Fail the N.F.L.’s Free Speech Test”: David French has this essay online at The New York Times.
“Was Slavery a Factor in the Second Amendment?” Law professor Carl T. Bogus has this essay online at The New York Times.
“The Supreme Court Sticks It to Workers, Again”: The New York Times has published this editorial.
“Live from D.C. (but not the Supreme Court), it’s Merrick Garland!” Columnist Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.
SCOTUSDaily interviews Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle: You can read the interview at this link.
“The Supreme Court’s Next Abortion Chapter”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.
“Gorsuch Vote Deals Unequal Justice for Workers”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.”
“Supreme Court Notebook: Flip-flops and summer plans.” Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman of The Associated Press have this report.
“Ninth Circuit Serious About Ending Workplace Harassment”: Melissa Heelan Stanzione of Bloomberg Law has this report.
“Gorsuch Takes Inside-Player Role in Second Term on Supreme Court”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
Who’s the latest federal appellate judge to quote Robert H. Bork’s The Tempting of America? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did it on Monday.
Fifth Circuit Judge James C. Ho — who if he keeps this up is bound to be on the next short list for the U.S. Supreme Court — did it today, writing separately to concur in his own majority opinion for a unanimous three-judge panel.
“The Limits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Usefulness: A transactional theology.” Noah Rothman has this post at the blog of Commentary magazine.
“Eleventh Circuit Creates Circuit Split on Cell Phone Border Searches; Waiting for Carpenter? This issue may go upstairs next.” Orin Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued today.
“How Much Longer Can Rod Rosenstein Protect Robert Mueller?” Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.
“Stegner appointed to Supreme Court; University of Idaho grad set to become only North Idaho justice on state’s highest court”: Kara McMurray has this front page article in today’s edition of The Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
“Kansas Supreme Court expresses doubt about five-year, $525M education package”: Tim Carpenter of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.
“State Supreme Court to review landmark case on money bail system”: Bob Egelko and Evan Sernoffsky of The San Francisco Chronicle have this report.
And at the “At the Lectern” blog, David Ettinger has a post titled “Supreme Court will address constitutionality of California’s cash bail system.”
“How the Supreme Court is invoking a 1925 law to restrict workers’ rights today”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
“Regardless of How the Supreme Court Rules in ‘Janus,’ Labor Needs to Get More Militant; The teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Kentucky show us that successful labor action can happen in any environment”: Michelle Chen has this essay online at The Nation.
“Tragedy of Errors: The Solicitor General, the Supreme Court and the Truth.” Regina Jefferies has this blog post at “Just Security.”
“Gay Kentucky man loses bid to challenge GOP clerk Kim Davis”: Adam Beam and Dylan Lovan of The Associated Press have this report.