“Everybody hates Auer: Supreme Court challenge to agency deference draws 25 amicus briefs.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Justice Alito Temporarily Blocks a Louisiana Abortion Law”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Elizabeth Crisp of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana reports that “Louisiana abortion law won’t take effect Monday, after U.S. Supreme Court intervention.”

Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico reports that “Supreme Court temporarily halts Louisiana abortion law.”

And at the “Constitution Daily” blog of the National Constitution Center, Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Louisiana abortion doctor law delayed.”

“A retired Supreme Court justice’s harsh critique of today’s public dialogue”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that begins, “Democracy and social decency are in trouble in the United States, former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told law students on Friday.”

“Supreme Court puts off decision on restrictive Louisiana abortion law”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. high court temporarily blocks Louisiana abortion restrictions.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Justice Temporarily Halts Louisiana Abortion Rules.”

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court delays decision on Louisiana’s stringent abortion law; The Center for Reproductive Rights says the law under review can’t ‘meet the needs of approximately 10,000 women who seek abortion services in Louisiana each year.’”

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law from taking effect Monday.”

Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued this administrative stay order this evening. The stay will last through Thursday, February 7, 2019.

“Nessel nixes state involvement in abortion, discrimination, religious suits”: Beth LeBlanc of The Detroit News has an article that begins, “Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel has withdrawn the state from eight lawsuits pertaining to reproductive rights, discrimination based on gender and separation of church and state.”

And earlier last month, Dave Herndon of The Press & Guide of Southgate, Michigan reported that “Fadwa Hammoud becomes first Muslim Arab-American solicitor general in United States.”

You give me fever: A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today ruled that qualified immunity protects from liability California state prison officials who allegedly exposed inmates to a heightened risk of getting Valley Fever in violation of the Eighth Amendment and (with regard to African-American inmates) the Equal Protection Clause.

“Challenge to abortion clinic restrictions in Louisiana will test Supreme Court’s new conservative majority”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Republicans Rewrote Voting Laws for 8 Years. Now Democrats Say It’s Their Turn.” Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.

“Trump, Pence Lead G.O.P. Seizure of Late-Term Abortion as a Potent 2020 Issue”: Vivian Wang has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And online at that newspaper, columnist Michelle Goldberg has an essay titled “Fake News About Abortion in Virginia; No, Democrats aren’t trying to legalize infanticide.”

“Texas still doesn’t have a law on intellectual disability and the death penalty. Will that change this year? Nearly two decades after the U.S. Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional to execute those with intellectual disabilities, Texas still has no process on determining the condition — leaving life-and-death decisions in the hands of courts with very different methods.” Jolie McCullough of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“The Chief Justice’s Secret: John Roberts writes fiercely conservative opinions, yet champions the Court’s political independence; How will he respond to a constitutional crisis?” In the March 2019 issue of The Atlantic, Michael O’Donnell has this review of Joan Biskupic‘s forthcoming book, “The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.” The book’s official on-sale date is March 26, 2019.

“Ep. 2: The Blind, the Lame, and the Widows.” Episode two of The Ginsburg Tapes podcast with Lauren Moxley can be accessed via this link. The episode focuses on the only case that Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and lost.

The oral argument spanned two days, and you can access the full oral argument audio here (day one) and here (day two).

“California Sens. Feinstein and Harris oppose Trump’s 9th Circuit nominees”: Sarah D. Wire of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Abortion Opponents Aim for First High Court Win in Kavanaugh Era”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.