“Lawyer seeking a seat on North Carolina’s highest court has a criminal record”: Will Doran and Michael Gordon of The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina have this report.

“What Will Happen to the Supreme Court in 20 Years? Dahlia Lithwick Joins 2038‘s First Episode.” New York magazine has posted online at this link the first installment of its new forward-looking podcast.

“Christine Blasey Ford’s Memory of Her Assault Isn’t a Case of Mistaken Identity; It’s a convenient theory that allows us to believe both the accused and the accuser, but it undermines everything we know about mistaken identity in cases of sexual assault”: Law professor Lara Bazelon and Jennifer Thompson have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“McGahn, a Soldier for Trump and a Witness Against Him, Departs White House”: Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this report.

“Even Without Democrats, Trump Judicial Nominee Gets Some Tough Questions; Sen. John Kennedy asked about Allison Jones Rushing’s experience for appeals court”: Niels Lesniewski of Roll Call has this report.

And Tim Ryan of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fourth Circuit Nominee Defends Lack of Legal Experience.”

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

“Senate Truce Collapses as G.O.P. Rush to Confirm More Judges Begins Anew”: Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times has this report.

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Democrats boycott hearing for more Trump judicial nominees.”

Kevin Freking of The Associated Press reports that “Senate Democrats skip hearing amid post-Kavanaugh tensions.”

Clare Foran of CNN reports that “Republicans hold judicial nominations hearing amid recess and Democratic objections.”

And Li Zhou of Vox reports that “Republicans are ramming through more judges — by holding hearings when everyone is out of town; They’re doing so despite vocal Democratic opposition.”

“Allison Rushing — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“McConnell says Senate Republicans might revisit Obamacare repeal”: David Morgan of Reuters has this report.

“Senate GOP midterm agenda: Judges, judges and more judges; Without a larger vision for 2019, Senate Republicans are laser-focused on the judiciary.” Burgess Everett and Elana Schor of Politico have this report.

“A Look at Harvard’s Admissions Guidelines: The document, used to assess the class that started in fall 2014, instructs admissions officers how to score applications.” Nicole Hong and Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“1st Circuit: No class certification if you can’t weed out uninjured class members.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“White Shoe Social Justice Warriors: The Pro Bono Racket; Cui bono? Big Law preens at the public’s expense, pushing a self-serving, left-wing agenda while pretending to be Atticus Finch.” Mark Pulliam has this post at his “Misrule of Law” blog.

“Pennsylvania Unions May Flip the House; They elected a Democratic Supreme Court, which redrew district maps to the disadvantage of the GOP”: Matthew J. Brouillette has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Crow man takes hunting case to U.S. Supreme Court, says 1868 treaty is on his side”: Andrea Lutz of KTVQ of Billings, Montana has this report.

“Iowa Supreme Court takes Pinky the dog’s case, will decide fate of Des Moines ordinance”: Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Des Moines Register has this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor to speak with Stony Brook students”: Keshia Clukey of Newsday has an article that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be at Stony Brook University on Wednesday afternoon, speaking with freshmen as part of the university’s First Year Reading Program.”

“I didn’t become a Republican to ‘own the libs’ with Kavanaugh. So I’m leaving the GOP. The Republican Party has adopted Donald Trump’s zero-sum approach to politics. But with fights this ugly, it turns out you can get tired of winning.” Stephen Kent has this essay online at USA Today.

“Supreme Court agrees to hear a case that could determine whether Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies can censor their users”: Tucker Higgins of CNBC has this report.

“Could Kavanaugh spell the end of the Supreme Court? Show of political partisanship threatens the Court’s legitimacy.” Chris Edelson has this essay online at MarketWatch.

“Boys Will Be Boys . . . and Supreme Court Justices”: Helen Horan has this essay online at The Dartmouth.

“Democrats boycott Senate hearing on Trump’s judicial nominees”: Susan Ferrechio and Melissa Quinn of the Washington Examiner have this report.

“What gives you an edge in Harvard admissions? Check the trial evidence.” Nick Anderson of The Washington Post has this report.

Deirdre Fernandes of The Boston Globe reports that “Harvard’s history with Asian-American applicants in the spotlight.”

And today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition” contained an audio segment titled “What’s Driving Some Asian-Americans To Challenge Affirmative Action?” featuring an interview with Hua Hsu, whose article in last week’s issue of The New Yorker is titled “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.”

“U.S. courts abruptly tossed 9,000 deportation cases. Here’s why.” Reade Levinson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters have this report.

“A Progressive Yankee in John Roberts’ Court”: Daniel Hemel has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

Three weeks from tomorrow, the 2018 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit will begin in Atlanta: This is my very favorite nationwide, annual appellate CLE event, and I will be attending, making this my fifth straight AJEI Summit in a row (Dallas, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Long Beach, CA, and now Atlanta). You can access this year’s program via this link.

One reason that I’m mentioning this now is that there’s still time to register to attend. And if you’ve already registered to attend, now is the perfect time to sign-up for the Council of Appellate Lawyers Dine-Around on the evening of Thursday, November 8th, a fun way to experience one of Atlanta’s best restaurants that’s open to all attendees who wish to participate. A link to the sign-up sheet for the Dine-Around appears on the AJEI Summit’s home page.

View this morning’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Fourth Circuit nominee Allison Jones Rushing: Scheduled to begin any moment now, via this link.

“Sessions vows ’emergency’ Supreme Court battles amid ‘outrageous’ discovery rulings by federal judges”: Gregg Re of Fox News has this report.

“Harvard University Student Discusses Why She Believes The Admissions Process Is Fair”: This audio segment appeared on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Podcast on U.S. Supreme Court launches just as upheaval begins”: Marilyn Odendahl of The Indiana Lawyer has this report.