“U.S. Supreme Court’s partisan rhetoric should be ‘toned way down,’ Justice Kagan says”: Sean Fine of The Toronto Globe and Mail has an article that begins, “The partisan process for judicial nomination hearings in the United States is harmful to the Supreme Court, one of its judges told a Canadian audience on Monday.”

Romi Levine of the University of Toronto News has an article headlined “U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan receives U of T honorary degree.”

And the University of Toronto Faculty of Law has posted on YouTube a video titled “A Conversation Between Justices Elena Kagan and Rosalie Silberman Abella.”

“OT2018 #7: ‘Now Who’s the Legal Realist?'” You can access today’s new installment of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Dan Epps and recurring guest host Will Baude, via this link.

“The Justice Department’s new tactic: Leapfrog judicial process and go straight to the Supreme Court.” Joshua Matz has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Can a Fired Transgender Worker Sue for Job Discrimination?” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.