“Harvard and SFFA File Another Round of Clashing Briefs in Admissions Lawsuit”: Camille G. Caldera and Sahar M. Mohammadzadeh of The Harvard Crimson have an article that begins, “Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions continued to spar over whether the College’s admissions process discriminates against Asian-American applicants in clashing court filings submitted Wednesday.”

By a vote of 8-to-7, en banc Fourth Circuit holds unconstitutionally vague the term “crime of violence” in 18 U.S.C. sec. 924(c)(3)(B): You can access today’s en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at this link.

All of the judges in dissent, except for one, were appointed by Republican presidents.

“Law schools where too many graduates fail the bar exam may face tougher sanctions; With tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, some law school grads are unable to pass the bar to become lawyers; Are their law schools to blame?” Anne Ryman, Jonathan Ellis, RJ Wolcott, and Melanie Payne of USA Today have this report.

And Anne Ryman of The Arizona Republic reports that “This law school grad has failed the bar exam 8 times and won’t give up.”

“Previously rebuffed, Google asks Supreme Court to review Java copyrights”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

And in news coverage, Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “Google asks U.S. Supreme Court to end Oracle copyright case.”

“The Trump Administration Will Let Adoption Agencies Turn Away Jews and Same-Sex Couples. Thank SCOTUS.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Halfway Through the Trump Presidency, the Resistance Is Winning”: John Cassidy has this post online at The New Yorker.

Therein, Cassidy writes, “Notwithstanding Tuesday’s 5–4 vote by the Supreme Court that revived the Administration’s execrable and pointless ban on transgender people serving in the military, the first line of resistance has been the judiciary, which has slowed, and in some cases blocked entirely, the Administration’s efforts to overturn precedent and due process. Trump likes to fulminate against the members of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which forced him to revise his travel ban, but many other courts have also ruled against the Administration, including the Supreme Court.”

“Supreme Court’s actions on transgender troops, gun rights, public prayer signal conservative trend”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Does Journalism Have a Future? In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.” Jill Lepore has this very interesting, and yet quite depressing, article in the January 28, 2019 issue of The New Yorker.