“Sonia Sotomayor Raises the Alarm Over Border Patrol’s Lawless Brutality; The Supreme Court is poised to remove all constitutional limits on border agents’ ability to kill”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Supreme Court Hears Racial Discrimination Case Against Comcast; Byron Allen, an African-American entrepreneur, says the cable giant discriminated against his company, Entertainment Studios Networks”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court seems interested in limited ruling in civil rights case.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Supreme Court may allow TV producer’s racial bias suit against Comcast to move ahead.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Racial discrimination case against cable giant Comcast gets tentative support from Supreme Court.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Comcast Argues High Court Should Quash Discrimination Suit; Television producer and personality Byron Allen alleges company rejected his channels due to race.”

Christian Hetrick of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Comcast racial-discrimination case.”

Chauncey Alcorn of CNN Business reports that “Supreme Court debates merits of black media mogul’s discrimination suit against Comcast.”

Ted Johnson of Deadline has an article headlined “Byron Allen Vs. Comcast: Supreme Court Hears Arguments On When A Racial Discrimination Case Is ‘Plausible’ Enough To Go Forward.”

At the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Huge Bias Case Against Comcast; The justices hear a lively debate about what needs to be alleged in a complaint for a discrimination lawsuit to proceed.”

Jack Rodgers of Courthouse News Service reports that “Cable Exec Prods High Court on Racial-Bias Standard.”

And in commentary, online at Philadelphia Magazine, Ernest Owens has a post titled “Win or Lose, Comcast Is on the Wrong Side of History in Supreme Court Case; The cable giant’s fight against media mogul Byron Allen’s racial-discrimination lawsuit could undermine bedrock civil rights protections.”

“Firearms industry: Supreme Court’s skip of Sandy Hook gun case presages litigation onslaught.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Court Rejects Trump’s Appeal in Fight to Keep Financial Records From Congress; The decision almost certainly paves the way for a major Supreme Court case over President Trump’s stonewalling of congressional oversight efforts”: Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “Congress can have access to eight years of Trump’s tax records, appeals court orders.”

Jeff Mordock of The Washington Times reports that “Court rules Dems can demand 8 years of Trump’s taxes.”

Jan Wolfe of Reuters reports that “U.S. appeals court again backs House request for Trump tax documents.”

Andrew M Harris of Bloomberg News reports that “Trump Heads to Supreme Court for Second Time Over Tax Records.”

Katelyn Polantz, Ariane de Vogue, and Paul LeBlanc of CNN reports that “Appeals court hands Trump another loss, saying Congress can seek his tax returns.”

Darren Samuelsohn of Politico reports that “Court denies Trump appeal in fight with Democrats over financial records; The ruling sets the stage for another potential Supreme Court showdown over the powers of Congress.”

John Kruzel and Naomi Jagoda of The Hill report that “Appeals court clears way for Congress to seek Trump financial records.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denying rehearing en banc by an apparent vote of 8-to-3, and the dissents therefrom, at this link.

“I Was a Federal Judge. My Former Colleagues Must Stop Attending Federalist Society Events.” Former U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue (W.D. Wash.) has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“A Court Ruling Ending DACA Might Not Be a Good Thing for Trump; It could mean news coverage of the government trying to deport thousands of young immigrants in the midst of what is certain to be a difficult re-election battle”: Maggie Haberman has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Fueled by Class of 2019, 100 Alumni Clerking This Term”: Mike Fox of the University of Virginia School of Law has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court weighs Comcast appeal in Byron Allen racial bias lawsuit”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.

Tucker Higgins of CNBC reports that “Comcast poised to beat $20 billion race discrimination case at Supreme Court.”

Cynthia Littleton of Variety reports that “Supreme Court Justices Parse Legal Tests for Byron Allen Racial Discrimination Case Against Comcast.”

Earlier, Taylor Telford of The Washington Post reports that “Race discrimination standards hang in the balance as Supreme Court takes up Comcast suit; Media mogul Byron Allen is suing the cable giant for $20 billion under a Reconstruction-era civil rights statute.”

You can access at this link the transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in Comcast Corp. v. National Ass’n. of African American-Owned Media, No. 18-1171.

“A Marxist Takes a Swing and a Miss at Justice Thomas’s Jurisprudence”: Scott Gerber has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg misses court due to illness”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.