“How has public opinion about abortion changed since Roe v. Wade?” Laura Santhanam of the PBS NewsHour has this report.

“Lawmakers hear WV Supreme Court employee’s words, OK media on court tour”: Lacie Pierson of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail has an article that begins, “During a day with light testimony, lawmakers considering impeachment of West Virginia Supreme Court justices spent much of their meeting deciding whether to allow members of the news media to accompany them on a tour of the court’s offices.”

“Heller says he backs Trump court nominee despite 2013 opinion that advanced Yucca Mountain”: James DeHaven of The Reno Gazette Journal has this report.

“With All Eyes on Joe Manchin, He Is All Ears at a Supreme Court Round Table”: Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks of The New York Times has this report.

“Woman who clashed with TSA likely to appeal case that shields screeners”: Fredrick Kunkle of The Washington Post has this report.

“Why Democrats should hope Roe v. Wade is overruled”: Columnist Jeff Jacoby has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“Judge Kavanaugh on the Fourth Amendment”: Orin Kerr has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Court rejects new Trump attempt to halt kids’ climate lawsuit”: John Bowden of The Hill has this report on a per curiam ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“‘I’m Doing It for the Babies’: Inside the Ground Game to Reverse Roe v. Wade.” Elizabeth Dias of The New York Times has this report.

And Audrey Carlsen, Ash Ngu, and Sara Simon have a related item online at The New York Times headlined “What It Takes to Get an Abortion in the Most Restrictive U.S. State.”

“Allergan Can’t Use Tribe to Protect Restasis Patent, Court Rules”: Susan Decker of Bloomberg News has this report.

And Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. court rejects Allergan bid to shield patents through tribe deal.”

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

“Judge dismisses lawsuits over Albert Pike campground flood deaths”: Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times had this report back in March 2017.

And in related coverage, at TXK Today of Texarkana, Texas, Field Walsh reported that “Albert Pike flood lawsuits dismissed by federal judge in Texarkana.”

Today. a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this decision affirming the dismissal of the case.

“Can California chase down tax refugees? The Supreme Court could help decide.” Columnist Dan Walters has this essay online at The Sacramento Bee.

“Behind closed doors, Guantanamo secret court talks about the CIA, torture and rights”: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has this report, along with an article headlined “Confessed al-Qaida terrorist to Army judge: Guantanamo war court’s a ‘covfefe.’“

“Judge nomination to SF federal court withdrawn over inflammatory writings”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Sarah D. Wire of The Los Angeles Times reports that “White House withdraws 9th Circuit nominee amid criticism over his college writings.”

Deirdre Shesgreen, Eliza Collins, and Nicole Gaudiano of USA Today report that “White House abruptly withdraws controversial judicial nominee minutes before Senate vote.”

Emma Dumain of McClatchy DC reports that “Sen. Tim Scott helps block Trump administration nominee.”

Nina Totenberg of NPR reports that “Appeals Court Nomination Withdrawn Before An Expected Failure On Senate Floor.”

Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “Republicans Pulled One Of Trump’s Controversial Judicial Nominees After It Was Clear He Wouldn’t Have The Votes.”

And in commentary, today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an editorial titled “A Senate Judicial Miss: Scott and Rubio defeat a good nominee and Democrats crow.”

And at “Above the Law,” Davit Lat has a post titled “Deconstructing The Defeat Of Ryan Bounds’s Ninth Circuit Nomination; The nominee was a victim of unfairly late objections by Senate Republicans, strategic missteps by Republican leadership, or both.”

“Russian firm indicted in special counsel probe cites Kavanaugh decision to argue that charges should be dismissed”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“America Is Stuck With the Death Penalty for (at Least) a Generation: With Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, the national fight to abolish capital punishment will have to go local.” Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

Law Clerks for Workplace Accountability launches a web site, a Twitter account, and issues its “Response to the Federal Judiciary Workplace Conduct Working Group’s June 1, 2018, Report”: You can access the web site here, the Twitter account here, and the response here.

In Bashman news from The Bronx: John Annese of The New York Daily News reports that “Two brutes bash man with bats on busy Bronx street.”

“Josh Kaul would conduct ‘legal analysis’ before deciding to defend state abortion ban”: Molly Beck and Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report.

“It’s Too Late For The Supreme Court, But Lower Courts Can Still Check Trump”: Nancy Gertner has this essay online at HuffPost.

“Democrats Have Already Jumped the Shark on Judge Kavanaugh: Screaming that Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is evil incarnate may make folks feel good. But it doesn’t make it true. And it’s surely not effective.” U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has this essay online at The Daily Beast.

“McConnell issues Supreme Court ultimatum: The Senate GOP leader is vowing to squeeze Democrats with a vote on Brett Kavanaugh right before the midterms if they don’t back down on their demand for documents.” Elana Schor and Burgess Everett of Politico have this report.

“Trump promised to remake the courts. He’s installing conservative judges at a record pace.” Deanna Paul of The Washington Post has this report.

“Schumer stalling on Kavanaugh meeting deepens White House rift; The Senate minority leader has yet to arrange a meeting with President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick”: Lorraine Woellert of Politico has this report.

Lauren Fox of CNN reports that “Democrats deliberately holding off meeting with Trump Supreme Court nominee, aide says.”

And Niels Lesniewski of Roll Call Reports that “Democrats Demand Paperwork Before Meeting With Kavanaugh; Judiciary Committee members debated the Supreme Court nominee’s voluminous paper trail Thursday.”

“Democrats are absolutely desperate to keep Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court — and it’s hurting our country”: The conservative writing duo of John Yoo and Robert J. Delahunty have this essay online at Fox News.

And online at National Review, Yoo and Delahunty have an essay titled “The Foolish Court-Packing Craze: Democrats continue their efforts to demolish the institutions they don’t control.”

“Can Unions Be Sued For Janus Claims? Surprising fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision on agency fees.” Will Baude has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Remembering an Era Before Roe, When New York Had the ‘Most Liberal’ Abortion Law”: Julia Jacobs of The New York Times has this report.

Judy L. Thomas of The Kansas City Star has an article headlined “Overturning Roe v. Wade would send issue back to states. Then it gets complicated.”

Jessica Mendoza of The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined “Overturning Roe might be simple; the politics that follow won’t be.”

Laura Bassett of HuffPost has a report headlined “Republicans Are Pretending They Don’t Care If SCOTUS Overturns Roe v. Wade; This is not what many said in the past.”

And at TPM DC, Tierney Sneed has a report headlined “The End Of Abortion As We Know It: How Roe v. Wade Will Be Dismantled.”

“Sen. Mike Lee says Kavanaugh is the ‘kind of originalist jurist we need on the court'”: Thomas Burr has this article in today’s edition of The Salt Lake Tribune.

“Former Harvard law students praise Kavanaugh in letter”: Matt Viser of The Boston Globe has this report.

“Ten Questions Brett Kavanaugh Must Answer”: David Cole has this post at the “NYR Daily” blog of The New York Review of Books.

“Trump Judicial Nominee Withdraws After Concerns Over Racially Insensitive Writing; Withdrawal of Ryan Wesley Bounds is the administration’s first failed appeals court pick”: Natalie Andrews and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

Thomas Kaplan of The New York Times reports that “White House Withdraws Appeals Court Nominee Who Deplored Multiculturalism.”

And Burgess Everett of Politico reports that “Trump judicial nominee pulled over racially charged writings.”

“Democrats seize on failure of judicial pick to demand all of Supreme Court nominee’s documents”: Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post has this report.

“Atlanta appeals court again rules gays, lesbians not a protected class”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Eleventh Circuit order denying rehearing en banc, and the dissent therefrom, can be accessed here.

“Trump Nominee Retreat Foreshadows Kavanaugh Document Fight”: Steven T. Dennis and Laura Litvan of Bloomberg News have this report.

“Trump appeals court nominee yanked over racially insensitive writings”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.