“Kavanaugh strikes conciliatory tone at White House ceremonial oath”: Mark Walsh has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“Brett Kavanaugh joins a Supreme Court challenged with legitimacy”: This editorial appears online at USA Today.

“GOP’s Toasts to Kavanaugh Are Unspeakably Cruel; Political gloating is normal; Mocking human suffering is not”: Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg View.

“Trump stokes tensions over Supreme Court confirmation battle as Kavanaugh set to take seat on the bench”: Ashley Parker and John Wagner of The Washington Post have this report.

Rebecca Ballhaus of The Wall Street Journal reports that “At Ceremonial Swearing-In, Trump Apologizes to Kavanaugh for His ‘Pain and Suffering’; In attendance were a handful of Republican senators and the other eight Supreme Court justices.”

Richard Wolf and John Fritze of USA Today report that “Trump says Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was ‘proven innocent’ in confirmation battle.”

Dave Boyer of The Washington Times reports that “Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh for ‘pain and suffering’ during swearing-in ceremony.”

Mark Sherman and Jill Colvin of The Associated Press report that “Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh during swearing-in ceremony.”

Jess Mason of Reuters reports that “Kavanaugh seeks new tone after Supreme Court fight; Trump apologizes for process.”

And Toluse Olorunnipa and Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News report that “Trump Apologizes to Kavanaugh And Declares Him ‘Proven Innocent.’“

“Trump ‘apologizes’ to Kavanaugh, says he was ‘proven innocent’; The remarks came at the White House ceremonial swearing-in ceremony for the new Supreme Court justice Monday night”: Lauren Egan of NBC News has this report.

“Kavanaugh Will Be at End of Court Bench, Center of Attention”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Trump apologizes to Kavanaugh for sexual misconduct allegations during confirmation”: Maegan Vazquez and Kate Sullivan of CNN have this report.

C-SPAN has posted online the video of the “Ceremonial Swearing In of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”

“Harvard Law Review Suit Opens New Front in Admissions-Bias Fight”: Bob Van Voris of Bloomberg News has an article that begins, “Harvard and New York University were sued by a group that claims their law schools illegally use race and gender as criteria for selecting law students to staff their most elite academic journals.”

“Chief Justice John Roberts Now Gets To Decide What To Do With His Supreme Court; Roberts, already playing a pivotal role as the chief justice, is now likely to be the center vote on the court as well”: Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Trump Didn’t Just Get A New Supreme Court Justice — He’ll Get Another DC Circuit Judge, Too; Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation opens up a new seat on the powerful federal appeals court in Washington, long a springboard to the US Supreme Court”: Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“The Coming Storm Over the Supreme Court; If it swings too far to the right, expect a response”: Law professor Barry Friedman has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Christine Blasey Ford Can’t Return Home Due To ‘Unending’ Threats, Lawyers Say”: Nick Visser of HuffPost has this report.

“McConnell appears open to election year nomination if Supreme Court seat vacant in 2020”: William Cummings of USA Today has this report.

And Hayley Miller of HuffPost reports that “Mitch McConnell Refuses To Rule Out Senate Confirming A Supreme Court Pick In 2020; The Senate majority leader appears to have revised his reasoning for blocking Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court.”

“Losing Hope as Susan Collins Spoke”: Damon Winter of The New York Times has this photo essay.

“New justice on the bench: Kavanaugh’s first Supreme Court cases; The court could soon decide to take up some hot-button issues, and the newest justice will likely play a decisive role.” Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Justice Kavanaugh’s History-Making Class Of Clerks; All four are women, a first at One First Street, and thanks to them, women constitute a majority of this Term’s clerks — the first time this has happened in SCOTUS history.” David Lat has this post at “Above the Law.”

“Amid Kavanaugh fallout, book looks at presidents, justices”: Julie Pace of The Associated Press has this report.

“Trump blasts Kavanaugh impeachment effort, calls allegations a ‘hoax’; The ‘hoax’ remark is the furthest the president has gone in trying to discredit Christine Blasey Ford and other accusers”: Jonathan Allen of NBC News has this report.

At 7 p.m. eastern time this evening at the White House, “President Trump Participates in the Swearing-In Ceremony of the Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh.”

“Brett Kavanaugh’s Church Community Reacts”: This audio segment featuring Washington Post reporter Michelle Boorstein appeared on yesterday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Earlier, The Post published an article written by Boorstein headlined “Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination fight is dividing his D.C. Catholic church.”

Yesterday’s broadcast of that NPR program also contained an audio segment titled “What Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Means For America’s Culture Wars.”

“The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action: With a lawsuit against Harvard, Asian-American activists have formed an alliance with a white conservative to change higher education.” Hua Hsu has this article in the October 15, 2018 issue of The New Yorker.

“Kavanaugh confirmed amidst Yale backlash”: Serena Cho and Alice Park of The Yale Daily News have this report.

“A High-Stakes Immigration Case Hits the Supreme Court: Nielsen v. Preap will determine whether thousands of longtime U.S. residents face indefinite detention without a hearing.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“A Tainting of Judicial Independence”: At the “Take Care” blog, Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq have a post that begins, “The confirmation process of Brett Kavanaugh has been decried by many for damaging the Senate’s norms of civility and the Supreme Court’s nonpartisan reputation. But that process, and in particular the September 27 hearing on allegations of attempted rape by Kavanaugh, has had a much more specific risk to the Court as an independent institution. This risk will cast a disabling shadow on any vote cast by a Justice Kavanaugh in a case that yields predictable partisan divisions.”

“How John Roberts will manage the Supreme Court’s conservative majority”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“OT2018 #2: ‘Alea Iacta Est.'” You can access today’s new episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Ian Samuel and guest host James Stern, via this link. As Ian has noted on Twitter, “The first seven minutes of this episode are unlike anything we’ve ever recorded before.”