“Senate impeachment trial to test chief justice who has tangled with Trump”: Robert Barnes and Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post have this report.

“Trump Tax Return Case Confronts Supreme Court With a Momentous Choice; Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton sustained unanimous losses when they sought to withhold evidence, suggesting that President Trump may face an uphill fight”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Yo Ho Ho: Justices Ponder Rights to Blackbeard Ship-Salvage Images; Supreme Court is hearing a case involving Blackbeard’s flagship, but the issue is copyright law rather than rum, parrots or buried treasure.” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Aarrr, matey! Supreme Court justices frown on state’s public display of pirate ship’s salvage operation.”

Paul Woolverton of The Fayetteville Observer reports that “Supreme Court justices skeptical in Blackbeard pirate ship case from Fayetteville.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices struggle with copyright case involving pirate ship.”

Andrew Chung of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court justices navigate video piracy case over Blackbeard’s ship.”

John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court hears case involving pirate Blackbeard’s ship.”

At the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Supreme Court Wrestles With Consequences for Piracy by State Governments; North Carolina tells the high court that the 11th Amendment provides a shield to claims it took a filmmaker’s copyrighted images.”

In commentary, today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal contains an editorial titled “State Pirates in the Dock: The Justices hear a crucial case of copyright and state rights.”

Also in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, law professor Adam Mossoff has an op-ed titled “Stop the States’ Copyright Plunder; They claim protection for their own intellectual property while engaging in blatant piracy.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Allen v. Cooper, No. 18-877.

“Clean Water Act: 5 things to know about tomorrow’s Supreme Court face-off.” Pamela King of Greenwire has this report.

“Supreme Court to Weigh Taking Bellwether Case Against Gun Industry; A suit by Sandy Hook families against Remington, the maker of the AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre, tries to test a law shielding the firearms industry from liability”: Kristin Hussey and Elizabeth Williamson of The New York Times have this report.

“Is John Roberts Going to Bail Out Donald Trump? Don’t bet on it.” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Trump tax case poses a potential test for the Supreme Court”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

And Joan Biskupic of CNN reports that “Rulings against Trump on his tax returns may be tough to reverse.”

“Things are getting nasty in the 7th Circuit’s big M&A shareholder class action case”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“The Stakes Are High As Maui Wastewater Case Heads To US Supreme Court; The lawsuit has drawn attention from environmental groups, fossil fuel interests and the Trump administration, which is backing Maui County”: Nick Grube of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.

And Tucker Higgins of CNBC reports that “Supreme Court set for arguments in major case over Maui reef with big implications for Clean Water Act.”

“Adnan Syed case: Defense attorneys push for Supreme Court to take the case.” Tim Prudente of The Baltimore Sun has this report.

“The Political Corruption Legalized by the Supreme Court; A litany of naive decisions has enshrined a system in which the rot lives right out in the open”: Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

“The Trump Bench: David Stras; Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy will be his judges. Who are they?” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Impressions from the oral argument in Kansas v. Glover; On reasonable suspicion and how to calculate it”: Orin S. Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Supreme Court Hears Police Traffic-Stop Case From Kansas”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”