“Controversial Trump Court Pick Gets Expedited Senate Confirmation Hearing; Steven Menashi, a White House aide with a record of denouncing feminism and diversity, is on track to become a lifetime federal judge”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report.

“Federal Defenders and the Sixth Amendment’s Zone of Interests”: Joshua Matz has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

“State Supreme Court to hear arguments on death penalty”: Justin Strawser has this front page article in today’s edition of The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

“Scraping A Public Website Doesn’t Violate the CFAA, Ninth Circuit (Mostly) Holds”: Orin S. Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at University of Chicago: ‘She’s a historic role model for our judicial system.'” Jessica Villagomez of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

And Jack Wang of UChicago News reports that “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reflects on Supreme Court’s unchanging ‘collegiality’; At UChicago event, Ginsburg expresses hope for return to bipartisan confirmations.”

The University of Chicago has posted on YouTube videos titled “A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Live at UChicago” and “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Polarization, Discrimination and Her Favorite Dissent.”

“5th Circuit holds FHFA structure unconstitutional. Boost for Supreme Court challenge to CFPB?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

This blog’s earlier coverage of last Friday’s en banc Fifth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“Steinbeck stepdaughter wins $13M in suit over movie rights”: The Associated Press had this report back in September 2017.

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision upholding the judgment as to liability and compensatory damages but setting aside a punitive damages award of nearly $6 million.

“Judges, Do The Reading”: Leah Litman has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

“LinkedIn Takes Data Scraping Fight to Ninth Circuit”: Nicholas Iovino of Courthouse News Service had this article back in March 2018.

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this opinion rejecting LinkedIn’s challenges to the trial court’s preliminary injunction.

“Prosecutors Seeks Harsher Sentence for Rand Paul Attacker”: Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service recently had this report on an oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Today, that Sixth Circuit panel issued this decision agreeing with federal prosecutors that the sentence was substantively unreasonable.

“Title VII cases would bypass Congress, impose policy preferences through courts”: Kenneth W. Starr has this essay online at The Hill.

And at the “Balkinization” blog, Marty Lederman has a lengthy post titled “Thoughts on the SG’s ‘Lesbian Comparator’ Argument in the Pending Title VII Sexual-Orientation Cases.”

“Michigan has a smart idea for fixing gerrymandering. Conservatives want to crush it. The legal threat against independent redistricting commissions, explained.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen — author of the “Election Law Blog” — has this essay online at Vox.

“Fox News Special: Neil Gorsuch opens up on journey to Supreme Court.” Fox News has posted this video on YouTube.

“Justice Gorsuch slams view that judges should be political actors shaping outcomes”: Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan have this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.

Also in today’s edition of that newspaper, Swoyer and Dinan have a related article headlined “Gorsuch settles easily from Mountain West into Scalia’s mold, except when it comes to fishing.”

“The Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings still offer a warning one year later”: Columnist Christine M. Flowers has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer.