“Obamacare faces a death panel on Tuesday; Thousands of lives and the rule of law hang in the balance”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at ThinkProgress.

“Democrats question absence of black or Hispanic nominees among Trump’s 41 circuit court judges”: Hailey Fuchs of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “The Senate has confirmed President Trump’s judicial nominees to the circuit courts at an unprecedented pace, giving the Republican more than 1 out of every 5 judges on the powerful appellate bench. Not one of the 41 judges is black or Hispanic. Five of the judges are Asian American.”

“Former DOJ Lawyer Says Census Drama Put Attorneys in ‘Completely Untenable’ Position; The government is abruptly switching legal teams after reversing course on the citizenship question”: Jeremy Stahl has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Battle Over the Census Citizenship Question Is Now About Civil Rights”: Cristian Farias has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Trump officials tell one court Obamacare is failing and another it’s thriving”: Noam N. Levey has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Ninth Circuit Close to Having More Trump Judges Than Any Other”: Jake Holland of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Leo Strine, Delaware Supreme Court’s chief justice, to step down”: Xerxes Wilson of The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware has this report.

“Florida County Fights for Right to Exclude Atheists From Prayer”: In March 2019, Izzy Kapnick of Courthouse News Service had an article that begins, “The 11th Circuit on Tuesday tackled the question of whether it is unconstitutional for county officials in Florida to ban people who don’t believe in God from delivering prayers at government meetings.”

Today. a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued this decision holding that, “in selecting invocation speakers, the Commissioners may not categorically exclude from consideration speakers from a religion simply because they do not like the nature of its beliefs.”

“The President vs. the Chief Justice: Will Roberts let Trump get away with adding a citizenship question to the census?” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

And online at The Washington Post, columnist Greg Sargent has an essay titled “Trump’s corruption is getting worse. He has a hidden enabler.” Aaron Blake has an essay titled “The Justice Department just pulled its lawyers from the census case. That could signal something ugly ahead.” And Jennifer Rubin has an essay titled “Sometimes a Justice Department lawyer must just say ‘no.’“

“The End of the Gay-Panic Legal Defense”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Constitutional Logic and State Sovereignty”: Thomas Ascik has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

View live, online UCI Law’s “9th Annual Supreme Court Term in Review”: Via this link, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. eastern time (10:30 a.m. to noon pacific time).

As noted here, this year’s panelists (in alphabetical order) are Jonathan Adler; Erwin Chemerinsky; Chris Geidner; Michele Goodwin; and Sarah Harrington. And, as always, Rick Hasen will serve as the event’s moderator.

“Texas v. U.S.: Why the Individual Mandate is Still Unconstitutional; Understanding NFIB v. Sebelius.” Randy Barnett and Josh Blackman have this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” along with a related post titled “NFIB v. Sebelius Already Addressed the ‘Injury in Fact’ Question in Texas v. U.S.; An important element of standing has already been decided by the Court.”

And Barnett alone has an additional post titled “My Concluding Thoughts on Severability in Texas v. U.S.: Severability doctrine & the ACA findings seem to support Judge O’Connor’s ruling.”

“Dick Posner: The Man Behind the Robe.” Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“As Democrats Demand Complete Mueller Report, Views Shift on Grand Jury Secrecy”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Fear And Loathing At The Supreme Court — What Is Chief Justice John Roberts Up To?” Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“The Census Case Could Provoke a Constitutional Crisis; President Trump has seldom been rebuked by the Supreme Court; The question now is how he’ll respond”: Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“5th Circuit decision on ACA could create political havoc for GOP”: Amy Goldstein of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “The judges of the marbled appellate courthouse in the heart of New Orleans once upended civil rights law, issuing rulings that propelled desegregation. This summer, they could upend health-care law and with it, the roiling politics of health care in Congress, the White House and the 2020 campaigns.”

“A New Team of Government Lawyers Will Take Over Census Fight; President Trump says Attorney General Barr is exploring ‘a couple of avenues’ for adding the citizenship question”: Sadie Gurman will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And Matt Zapotosky of The Washington Post reports that “Justice Department changing lawyers on census case.”

“Homeless man sues Sandy again over panhandling enforcement”: Dennis Romboy of The Deseret News had this article back in May 2017.

On Friday, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued this decision holding that Sandy City, Utah did not violate the First Amendment when it adopted an ordinance making it illegal for any person “to sit or stand, in or on any unpaved median, or any median of less than 36 inches for any period of time.”

“Nestle Won’t Get Full Ninth Circuit Review of Slave Labor Case”: Perry Cooper of Bloomberg Law has this report on an order denying rehearing en banc, and dissent therefrom, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued on Friday.

“Court Revives Manslaughter Charge in Baby’s Drug-Related Death”: Glynis Farrell Bergner of Courthouse News Service has an article that begins, “A divided Eighth Circuit panel reinstated an involuntary manslaughter charge Friday against a South Dakota woman whose son died hours after birth and was found to have illegal drugs in his system.”

And at the “Turtle Talk” blog, Matthew L.M. Fletcher has a post titled “Split Eighth Circuit Reinstates MCA Manslaughter Indictment of Mother of Newborn Killed by Drug Toxicity” that links to the appellate briefs and numerous district court filings in the case.

You can access Friday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link. Circuit Judge Bobby E. Shepherd wrote the majority opinion, in which Circuit Judge David R. Stras joined. And Circuit Judge Steven M. Colloton issued a dissenting opinion.

“Changes Are Afoot: Evidence from 5-4 Decisions During the 2018 Term and What this Tells Us About the Supreme Court Moving Forward.” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Jeffrey Epstein Is Accused of Luring Girls to His Manhattan Mansion and Abusing Them; The billionaire financier is charged with running a sex-trafficking operation that brought dozens of girls as young as 14 to his opulent Upper East Side home”: Ali Watkins and Vivian Wang will have this front page article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

“A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling may seem like a win for those fighting governmental seizure of property, but was it really?” Law professor Sara Bronin has this essay online at The Hartford (Conn.) Courant.

“ObamaCare repeal lawsuit faces major court test”: Peter Sullivan of The Hill has this report.

“Oregon Dems preserve nation’s only non-unanimous juries, wait on Supreme Court decision”: McKenna Ross of The Oregonian has this report.

“Supreme Court could change its approach to Indian land case, experts say”: Chris Casteel has this front page article in today’s edition of The Oklahoman.

“Supreme Court Notebook: Did Ginsburg hint at census outcome?” Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.

“Seeds of equality blossom in Justice Kavanaugh’s ruling”: U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) has this essay online at The Waco Tribune-Herald.

“Trump’s Justice Department lawyers may soon pay a high price for lying to the courts; This is what happens when you get into bed with Donald Trump”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at ThinkProgress.

“D.C. Circuit Review — Reviewed: On Second (and Third and Fourth) Clerkships.” Aaron Nielson has this post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“To get at the truth, unseal grand jury records about a veteran’s lynching; Unsealing the Moore’s Ford Lynching transcripts will help expose the forces that have fueled, perpetuated and shielded racial terror in our country”: Attorney Kevin Golembiewski has this essay online at The Tampa Bay Times.

“2020 Dems’ opposition builds against Trump judges; Exclusive data obtained by POLITICO shows that Senate Democrats are rejecting the president’s judicial nominees far more often than during the last Congress”: Marianne LeVine of Politico has this report.

“Where John Roberts Is Taking the Court: His decision in the census case may indicate a genuine renaissance of his judicial conscience.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.