“Supreme Court Hears Case Over Total Wine’s Desire To Expand Into Tennessee”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Greg Guidry, Louisiana Supreme Court judge, picked by Donald Trump for federal court”: Drew Broach of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

And Gordon Russell of The Advocate of New Orleans reports that “State Supreme Court Justice Greg Guidry nominated by President Trump for federal judgeship.”

As for why a judge serving on the highest court of a state would be interested in becoming a federal district judge, the answer could be related to the life tenure and retirement at full salary that federal judges receive.

“Chief justice: Let Iowans resolve more court disputes online.” Stephen Gruber-Miller of The Des Moines Register has this report.

“Battles expected in many states over abortion-related bills”: David Crary of The Associated Press has this report.

“The Citizenship Question Isn’t Quite Dead Yet: A federal judge held that the Trump administration’s desired change to the census violates the law, but the Supreme Court could review the decision.” Vann R. Newkirk II has this report online at The Atlantic.

“Supreme Court Hears Cases Involving Land Use, Alcohol Permits; Property case is part of a drive by conservative activists to pare back power state and local governments exercise over land use”: Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Justices Express Skepticism of Tennessee Law on Liquor Stores”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court justices seem skeptical of Tenn. residency requirement for liquor store owners.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “On Prohibition’s 100th anniversary, Supreme Court tackles state liquor laws.”

And Christopher Vondracek of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court hears case Tennessee, Total Wine & More case; State residency law riles would-be ‘Amazon of liquor.’“

“Why It Took 277 Pages to Cut One Question From the Census: The judge in the citizenship case knows all the legal angles and built a ruling to withstand any attack.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Why Professor Hemel is Wrong About Life Tenure for SCOTUS”: Eric Segall has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Efi Naveh, Head of Israeli bar, arrested in sex-for-judgeship scandal; Head of Israeli Bar Association Efi Naveh allegedly intervened on behalf of prospective judges for sexual favors”: Yonah Jeremy Bob of The Jerusalem Post has this report.

And BBC News reports that “Israel police investigate ‘sex-for-judgeships’ allegations; Police in Israel have arrested a top lawyer as part of an investigation into claims that judicial appointments were traded for sexual favours.”

“Trump Announces Six Male District Court Nominees”: Patrick L. Gregory of Bloomberg Law has this report. Although these are nominations to U.S. District Court judgeships, two of the nominees currently serve as state appellate court judges.

“Pentagon defeats U.S. cities’ appeal over gun check flaws: court.” Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued today.

“Justices appear ready to void Tennessee alcohol sales law”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “On Prohibition milestone’s anniversary, U.S. top court hears booze case.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Justices Question Residency Rules for Liquor Store Owners.”

And earlier, in commentary, Michael Bindas and Anya Bidwell have an op-ed titled “The Justices Hear a Case of Liquor; Tennessee gives the court a chance to revive the long-dormant Privileges or Immunities Clause” in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers Assn. v. Blair, No. 18-96.

“What Happens if Ruth Bader Ginsburg Remains Too Sick to Work? Nothing! History is full of Supreme Court justices who were incapacitated — or worse. That’s the price of life tenure, and it’s worth paying.” Law professor Daniel Hemel has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

And online at Fox News, Mary Anne Marsh has an essay titled “Ruth Bader Ginsburg — A Supreme Court justice the world watches.”

“Why Won’t John Roberts Accept an Ethics Code for Supreme Court Justices?” Law professor Steven Lubet has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Pipeline wars arrive at Supreme Court. What’s next?” Pamela King of Energywire has this report.

“Alabama Judge Strikes Down State Law Protecting Confederate Monuments; But the decision seems wrong as a matter of federal constitutional law, because the law regulates only local governments — and local governments lack any federal constitutional rights against their states”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

My earlier coverage of Monday’s Alabama state trial court ruling can be accessed here.

“‘Law and Public Policy’ (With a Welcoming Nod to Gerard)”: Paul Horwitz has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“The Least Interesting Branch”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Judiciary to Continue Funded Operations Until Jan. 25”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today.

“UberBlack Drivers Ask 3rd Circ. To Revive Wage Suit”: Jeannie O’Sullivan of Law360 has this report on an appeal argued yesterday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

You can access the audio of the oral argument via this link. Attorney Ashley Keller argued the appeal on behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants.