“Roberts Confirms He’s the New Swing Justice: Why the chief sided with the liberals in a major death penalty case.” Mark Joseph Stern recently had this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford), one of the top Religion Clauses scholars in the nation, passes along some thoughts on the Maryland Cross arguments”: Eugene Volokh sets forth those comments at length in this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Ex Parte Levitt”: Law professor William Baude [U.S. Supreme Court Justices and others can access at this link my thoroughly authoritative guide to the pronunciation of Will’s last name] has posted this paper on SSRN “about the unconstitutionality of Hugo Black.”

“Hold the Revolution: Roberts Keeps Joining High Court Liberals.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“What to make of Chief Justice John Roberts?” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

Biskupic’s newest book — titled “The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts” — is scheduled to go on sale March 26, 2019.

“Lawyer X identified as Nicola Gobbo after court lifts suppression order on Informer 3838”: Sarah Farnsworth of Australia’s ABC News has this report.

And in related coverage, ABC News of Australia reports that “Nicola Gobbo’s safety at risk after Lawyer X suppression lifts, lawyer says.”

“Against Establishment Clause Appeasement”: Nelson Tebbe and Micah Schwartzman have this post at the “Take Care” blog.