“A Conservative Judge Torched Donald Trump’s Latest Illegal Assault on Immigrants”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Reluctant U.S. Supreme Court on collision course with Trump”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Judge Bridget Bade — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“At 102, Olivia de Havilland won’t give up her fight over ‘Feud.’ Will the Supreme Court hear her case?” David Ng of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“President Trump’s transgender military ban is back in court”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

Access the contents of the December 2018 issue of the Harvard Law Review: Via this link.

Law professor Orin S. Kerr has an article titled “Cross-Enforcement of the Fourth Amendment.”

And law professor Ryan C. Williams has an article titled “The ‘Guarantee’ Clause.”

“Supreme Court declines to review rulings that blocked efforts to end Planned Parenthood funding”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court turns down abortion-related appeal from states seeking to defund Planned Parenthood.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court won’t consider state efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices won’t hear states’ appeal over Planned Parenthood.”

Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court spurns Louisiana, Kansas on Planned Parenthood cuts.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Let Stand Rulings Favoring Planned Parenthood.”

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court gives victory to Planned Parenthood in Medicaid case; Three of the court’s conservatives said the court should have taken up the case, but Justice Kavanaugh and Chief Justice Roberts voted with the majority.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Supreme Court sides with Planned Parenthood in funding fight.”

Bill Mears of Fox News reports that “Kavanaugh casts deciding vote as Supreme Court rejects review of Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.”

Lydia Wheeler and Jessie Hellmann of The Hill report that “Supreme Court sides with Planned Parenthood, declines to take case.”

And Alice Miranda Ollstein reports that “Supreme Court turns away Planned Parenthood defunding cases.”

Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Stephen G. Breyer delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in United States v. Stitt, No. 17-765. You can access the oral argument via this link.

“Gibbons Mourns the Loss of Standard-Bearer John J. Gibbons”: The law firm Gibbons P.C. has issued this announcement.

Gibbons served as a judge and later chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before he retired from the court in 1990.

“Matthew Whitaker’s Appointment As Acting Attorney General Has A History. Here It Is. Whitaker’s installation at the Justice Department has been painted as another Trump effort to influence investigations against him and his campaign. But it would not have been possible without changes in law pushed by Democrats.” Chris Geidner of BuzzFeed News has this report.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in one new case and dismissed a direct appeal for want of jurisdiction.

And in Gee v. Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast, Inc., No. 17-1492, Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, in which Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch joined, from the denial of certiorari.

In the December 17, 2018 issue of The New Yorker: David Owen has an article headlined “Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition? The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture — but its applications can easily be weaponized.”

And Casey Cep has A Critic at Large essay titled “The Contested Legacy of Atticus Finch: Harper Lee’s beloved father figure became a talking point during the Kavanaugh hearings and is now coming to Broadway; Is he still a hero?“

“OT2018 #11: ‘A Lot Of Meatballs.'” You can access today’s new episode of the “First Mondays” podcast, featuring Leah Litman and guest host Jaime Santos, via this link.

“The Stories Behind the Supreme Court’s Class Photos; For 150 years, the justices have sat, not always happily, for an extraordinary series of group portraits”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.