“Confessed Dan Markel murderer Luis Rivera could take the stand Tuesday”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“PACER Court Records ‘Can Never Be Free,’ Judge Says”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“With the Affordable Care Act’s future in doubt, evidence grows that it has saved lives”: Amy Goldstein of The Washington Post has this report.

“SCOTUS Spotlight: Tony Mauro on the Supreme Court beat.” You can access the new installment of the “SCOTUStalk” podcast from “SCOTUSblog” via this link.

“Was It Worth It? Is It Still? Will It Ever Be? The women (and men) who came forward about sexual assault and harassment tell about everything that came after.” Irin Carmon and Amelia Schonbek have this post at “The Cut” blog of New York Magazine.

“How Circuits Can Fix Their Splits”: Law professor Wyatt Sassman has posted this article online at SSRN.

“U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia admonished for sexual harassment, affair with felon, tardiness”: Sherman Smith of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

And Steve Vockrodt of The Kansas City Star reports that “Kansas federal judge gets rare public reprimand for harassment, affair with felon.”

Today, the Judicial Council of the Tenth Circuit issued an order that publicly reprimands U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia of the District of Kansas for several forms of misconduct.

“Priscilla Owen of Austin becomes chief judge of US appeals court”: Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has this report.

“Eat Your Spinach”: You can access today’s new installment of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast — featuring Melissa Murray, Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, and Jaime Santos — via this link.

“Counterpoint: Amy Coney Barrett Would Be A Fine Supreme Court Justice. Yes, she’s ‘very Catholic.’ But conservatives have little to fear.” Ian Samuel has this essay online at Human Events.

“William Nardini — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“Supreme Court Is Key After Trump’s String of Losses in Lower Courts; Lower courts have blocked president from enforcing initiatives, including rollbacks of Obama-era rules”: Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“The Rehnquist files: How the last chief justice handled an impeachment trial.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“What 2 Deep-Dive Books on Kavanaugh Taught Me About Truth in the Trump Era”: Law professor Lara Bazelon has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

And C-SPAN’s “Book TV” has posted related videos here and here.

“Supreme Court may be focus of gun control arguments with Congress deadlocked”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Domino’s Wants to Slice Away at the Americans With Disabilities Act; The possibility that the Supreme Court might decide that Domino’s doesn’t have to make its website accessible fills me with dread — and not because I love its pizza”: Richard Supple has this essay online at Slate.

“Transgender woman in Supreme Court case is ‘happy being me'”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Abortion Appeals Waiting as Supreme Court Returns for New Term”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“In Death Penalty Cases, Sotomayor Is Alone in ‘Bearing Witness'”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Three Jewish Supreme Court justices putting a powerful stamp on US Jewry”: Yonah Jeremy Bob of The Jerusalem Post has this report.

“Supreme Court showdown looming on religious liberty, LGBTQ cases”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Probe the Effort to Sink Kavanaugh; Leland Keyser tells a new book’s authors she felt pressured to testify falsely”: David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Ex-wife Wendi Adelson testifies under immunity in Dan Markel case”: Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report, along with an article headlined “Dan Markel case: Lead TPD investigator traces evidence trail that led to conspiracy allegation.”

Nate Chute of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article headlined “5 takeaways from Wendi Adelson’s testimony during the Dan Markel case.”

Tonya Alanez of The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that “Estranged wife of slain FSU professor testifies at murder-for-hire trial.”

And The Tallahassee Democrat has posted online a video titled “Watch Wendi Adelson’s full testimony in Dan Markel’s murder trial.”

“Historic Oregon Supreme Court building to close, staff relocates for two-year renovation”: Whitney Woodworth of The Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon has this report.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Robert Bork: Judicial Activist Twins; By using the courts to inflict their social and economic agendas respectively, they’ve left us in a lost era enamored with state power.” George Liebmann has this essay online at The American Conservative.

“ACLU asks US Supreme Court to overturn Kentucky abortion ultrasound law”: Deborah Yetter of The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has this report.

“Philly wanted to reclaim a vacant lot cleaned up by a Fishtown man. The Pa. Supreme Court ruled in his favor.” Caitlin McCabe has this article in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer about a ruling that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued yesterday.

“Pa. Supreme Court rejects petition to find death penalty unconstitutional”: Julie Shaw of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report on an order that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued today.

“Supreme Court hears arguments on Alex Jones civil case with Sandy Hook families”: Dave Altimari has this front page article in today’s edition of The Hartford Courant.

“Supreme court litigant advised to buy stab vest after death threats; Leading lawyer considers leaving UK if threats that began during court hearings escalate”: Amelia Hill of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“‘Sex’ at the Supreme Court”: David Cole will have this essay in the October 24, 2019 issue of The New York Review of Books.

“Fall environmental docket: ‘Calm before the storm.'” Pamela King of Greenwire has this report.

“The biggest Second Amendment case to reach the Supreme Court in nearly a decade, explained; Gun control supporters are desperate — and have already taken drastic steps — to get the Supreme Court to dismiss this case”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Now One Of Trump’s Court Picks Is Tied Up In This Ukraine Scandal; Senate Democrats are asking judicial nominee Steven Menashi, a White House legal aide, what he’s known about the bombshell whistleblower complaint”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report.

“Why ‘Because of Sex’ Should Protect Gay People: If a majority of the Supreme Court concludes that discrimination against LGBTQ people is discrimination ‘because of sex,’ thousands of people will be protected on the job; If not, many stand to lose their livelihoods.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.