“CFPB just told SCOTUS it’s unconstitutional. What does that mean for its mission?” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“U.S. Abortion Rate Drops to Lowest Level Since 1973; Researchers attribute decline to fewer pregnancies, falling birth rates”: Jennifer Calfas of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“What lawyers can learn about typography from a Bibas opinion”: Matthew Stiegler has this post at his “CA3blog.”

“GOP Senator ‘Doubtful’ He’ll Support Trump Court Pick Steven Menashi; ‘If he’ll treat a United States senator the way he treated us, I wonder how he would treat the people,’ said Sen. John Kennedy”: Jennifer Bendery of HuffPost has this report.

“Trump just asked the Supreme Court to let him fire the CFPB’s head. The implications are enormous. A war over the limits of Trump’s power is about to get real.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Trump’s Latest Assault on the CFPB Could Backfire; After a messy takeover of the CFPB, the administration now wants the agency’s structure declared unconstitutional.”

“In whiplash moment, Democrats are now backing away from Kavanaugh allegations”: Paul Kane of The Washington Post has this report.

“Teresa Ficken Sachs Named Counsel to Pennsylvania Supreme Court”: Congratulations to my friend and quite frequent adversary Terry Sachs on this news release that the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued today.

During the October 2018 term of the U.S. Supreme Court, Terry had the distinction of not only arguing her first case before that Court, but also getting to do it again a second time for good measure.

“Trump Administration Looks to Supreme Court to Rein In Consumer Finance Agency; The CFPB was created under the Dodd-Frank Act in the wake of the mortgage-lending crisis”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Programming note: Later this morning, I will be arguing four related appeals before a three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania sitting in Philadelphia. As a result, additional posts will appear here this evening.

“Constitution Day Is Also About State-Level Protections”: Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton has this essay online at Real Clear Politics.