“Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy”: Damien Cave of The New York Times has this news analysis.

Update: NPR covers the news in a report titled “Cardinal George Pell Reportedly Convicted Of Sex Abuse Amid Gag Order In Australia.”

“Texas Judge Strikes Down Obama’s Affordable Care Act as Unconstitutional”: Abby Goodnough of The New York Times has this report.

Amy Goldstein of The Washington Post reports that “Federal judge in Texas rules Obama health-care law unconstitutional.”

Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Federal Judge Rules Affordable Care Act Is Unconstitutional Without Insurance-Coverage Penalty; The ruling injects uncertainty into the health-care coverage of millions.”

Kaley Johnson and Andrea Drusch of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram report that “Fort Worth judge rules Obamacare unconstitutional, casts doubt on insurance for millions.”

Tom Korosec and Kartikay Mehrotra of Bloomberg News report that “Obamacare Thrown Out by Judge, Raising Insurance Uncertainty.”

And Paul McLeod and Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News report that “A Federal Judge Just Ruled That The Affordable Care Act Is Unconstitutional.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas at this link.

“A Supreme Court case has Internet companies running scared”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has a post that begins, “This week, the Internet came to the U.S. Supreme Court to warn the justices of the potentially disastrous consequences of a broad ruling in a case that, ostensibly, has nothing to do with social media sites or search engines.”

“Kavanaugh: Too Soon to Be Reading Tea Leaves.” Mark Pulliam has this post at American Greatness.

“Two Alumnae Clerking at U.S. Supreme Court This Term”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.

“The Coming Influence of the Trump Judges”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law and Liberty” blog.

“A Crisis That Hasn’t Happened: The astonishing resilience of the Department of Justice.” Law professor Jack Goldsmith has this essay online at The Weekly Standard.

“Va. House GOP asks U.S. Supreme Court to stop new electoral map”: Graham Moomaw of The Richmond Times-Dispatch has this report.

“The Supreme Court May Begin to Tame the Administrative State; A 1997 precedent requires judges to defer to agencies’ interpretations of their own ambiguous rules”: Peter J. Wallison has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Last month, Ruth Botstein argued Alaska’s case at the Supreme Court. This month she was fired.” Nathaniel Herz of Alaska Public Media has this report.

“Trump Digs Into Rulebook to Speed Major Issues to Supreme Court”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.