“UChicago’s history of dialogues with U.S. Supreme Court justices: Ruth Bader Ginsburg to visit Harris Public Policy for Sept. 9 talk.” Jack Wang of UChicago News has this report.

“Biden Wants to Work With ‘the Other Side.’ This Supreme Court Battle Explains Why. In the clash over Robert H. Bork’s nomination, Joe Biden’s moderate instincts defined a winning strategy.” Alexander Burns of The New York Times has this report.

“‘Aryan’ and ‘Octoroon’: Couples challenge racial labels to get married in Virginia.” Rachel Weiner has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

Frank Green of The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that “Suit filed challenging race question for Virginia marriage license.”

And Matthew Barakat of The Associated Press reports that “Law requiring marriage applicants to divulge race challenged.”

“The Supreme Court has become just another arm of the GOP”: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has this essay online at The Washington Post.

In Bashman news from Australia: Ben Harvy of The Advertiser of Adelaide reports that “Four men with baseball bat bash man inside own home.”

“Fannie-Freddie Investors Fighting Profit Sweep Get Key Win”: Austin Weinstein of Bloomberg News has this report on a 123-page en banc decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today resolving two key issues by largely different 9-to-7 majorities.

“Gorsuch welcomes new Texas Supreme Court justice”: Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has an article that begins, “Welcoming the newest member to the Texas Supreme Court during a ceremony Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said it is a great privilege and humbling responsibility to serve as a judge.”

“Supreme Court justice with Carlisle connections died a disgraced man”: Joseph Cress of The Sentinel of Carlisle, Pennsylvania has this report.

“Amid blowback over secrecy, Louisiana Supreme Court changes confidentiality rules”: Andrea Gallo and John Simerman of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana have an article that begins, “Under fire over a cloak of secrecy that envelops misconduct investigations against state judges, the Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday announced steps it said are meant to bolster trust in the judiciary.”

“Antonin Scalia’s Surprising Role in the Latest Supreme Court Fight Over Legal Protections for Gays; Understanding what’s at stake in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia“: Damon Root has this post online at Reason.

“AP Interview: Gorsuch rues loss of civility but mum on Trump.” Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.

“‘Everything conservatives hoped for and liberals feared’: Neil Gorsuch makes his mark at the Supreme Court.” Robert Barnes and Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post have this report.

“The High Court’s Rocky Mountain Originalist: Justice Neil Gorsuch discusses his new book, the dangers of the administrative state, and why the Constitution’s meaning never changes.” Kyle Peterson of The Wall Street Journal has this new installment of “The Weekend Interview.”

“Trump suggests he’s open to DACA legislation if he prevails in Supreme Court case”: John Wagner of The Washington Post has this report.

“Supreme Court may again fast-track a legal dispute over Trump’s immigration plans”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“GOP senator urges probe into Blasey Ford’s testimony against Kavanaugh; New report suggests witness motivated by pro-choice politics, fear of potential Roe overturn”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Sovereign Indignity: Texas must Litigate its Infringement Case in Delaware.” At his “Patently-O” blog, Dennis Crouch has this post about an interesting decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued yesterday.

“Woman’s Lawsuit Alleges Cop Gave Her An Invasive Body Cavity Search In Public; Kayla Robinson says the officer called her a ‘crackhead’ and a ‘bitch’ before stripping her down”: David Lohr of HuffPost had this report back in January 2017.

Yesterday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued this ruling — in which each of the three judges wrote separately — affirming in part and reversing in part the district court’s denial of the police officers’ motion for summary judgment.

“Seventh Circuit Revives Antitrust Beer Brawl”: Lorraine Bailey of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And in earlier coverage of the suit, back in August 2017, Barry Adams of The Wisconsin State Journal reported that “Owner of Minhas Craft Brewing in Monroe suing two international brewing giants.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

“Trump gets to fill yet another vacancy on powerful Atlanta court”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Does the Fifth Circuit Permit En Banc Review of ‘Interim’ Rulings? Judge Don Willett Says No, Citing ‘Nonpublic Internal Court Policies.'” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“End Nationwide Injunctions: The Dreamers case shows how willful courts can ruin the chance for political compromise.” U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Groups answer Supreme Court with million-dollar push to counter gerrymandering”: Devin Dwyer of ABC News has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to speak at Amherst College”: Ray Kelly of The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts has this report.

“Tennessee Supreme Court hears arguments on pro-business law that caps awards by juries”: Jamie Satterfield of The Knoxville News Sentinel has this report.

“Delaware asks Supreme Court to review its bipartisan judge-picking process”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post. You can view the petition for writ of certiorari at this link.

“AFJ: Second Circuit Nominee Menashi’s Vile Record is Disqualifying.” The Alliance for Justice issued this news release concerning a report that it issued today.

“Texas hoping to revive law on burial of fetal remains”: Kevin McGill of The Associated Press has this report.

Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News has an article headlined “Texas Law Requires Patients to Bury or Cremate Fetal Tissue. Now, the Fifth Circuit Is Weighing In. Anti-abortion advocates hope they can get the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to help advance fetal ‘personhood.’”

Earlier, in commentary available online from Slate, Jane Maienschein had an article headlined “Dead Fetuses Are Not ‘Remains’; The insidiousness of state laws intended to require the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetuses.”

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit assigned to hear and decide the appeal consists of Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart, Circuit Judge Gregg J. Costa, and Senior Circuit Judge Rhesa H. Barksdale. When the oral argument becomes available online, I will link to it. (This is about as good of a panel as the law’s challengers could have ever hoped to draw at the Fifth Circuit.)

“The legal team in the Pa. gerrymandering case set their sights on N.C. They just won again.” Jonathan Lai of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

And in today’s edition of The New York Times, Michael Wines has an article headlined “The Battle Over the Files of a Gerrymandering Mastermind.”

“The Electoral College is Tainted, But so is the Rest of the Constitution, and America for that Matter”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“The Constitution and the Zone of Interests Test”: Joshua Matz has this post at the “Take Care” blog.

“Gorsuch Says It’s Just Fine to Be Forgotten Someday”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“[P]ut simply, basketball is not fundamental to democracy.” So concluded the Supreme Court of Minnesota in a ruling issued today.

In news coverage, Rochelle Olson of The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that “Parents can be sued for false claims against high school coaches, Minnesota high court rules; The former Woodbury girls’ basketball coach claimed that parents had defamed him; The high court ruling reinstates his lawsuit.”

“Divided Third Circuit rules that immigration statute’s differential treatment of fathers and mothers violates equal protection”: Matthew Stiegler has this post at his “CA3blog” about a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued today.

“Three North Carolina Judges Step In Where the Supreme Court Refuses”: The New York Times has published this editorial.

The Wall Street Journal has published an editorial titled “Eric Holder’s Redistricting Coup; North Carolina judges toss a GOP map as Democrats tee up 2020.”

And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Elena Kagan’s Blueprint to End Partisan Gerrymandering; North Carolina paid attention.”