“Alabama Supreme Court upholds Confederate monument law”: Mike Cason of Alabama Media Group has this report.

And Kim Chandler of The Associated Press reports that “Top Alabama Court upholds Confederate monument protections.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Alabama at this link.

“The many ambitions that propelled Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court”: Online at The Washington Post, law professor Geoffrey R. Stone has this review of Ruth Marcus’s new book, “Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover.”

“Open Access: SCOTUS will consider whether publishers can copyright annotated state codes.” Mark Walsh has this article online at ABA Journal.

“Trump Keeps Losing in Court. But His Legal Strategy Is Winning Anyway. As fights over the president’s stonewalling of Congress play out slowly in courts, he is reducing the prospect that voters learn new damaging facts about him before the 2020 election.” Charlie Savage of The New York Times has this report.

“Bronx man, battling own legal woes, brings gun rights case to U.S. Supreme Court”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.

Mind your manners — Eleventh Circuit holds that especially polite bank robber did not merit “threat-of-death” Sentencing Guidelines enhancement: You can access yesterday’s per curiam ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

I agree with David Oscar Markus, who notes at his “SDFLA Blog” that the opinion’s entertaining writing style suggests that Circuit Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum was its author.

It is also noteworthy that federal prosecutors agreed with the defendant-appellant that the district court’s imposition of this sentencing enhancement was improper, which resulted in the Eleventh Circuit’s appointment of amicus counsel to argue in favor of affirmance.

“Decision-Making in the Dark”: At JOTWELL, Ryan Azad has this review of law professor Merritt McAlister‘s forthcoming law review article, “‘Downright Indifference’: Examining Unpublished Decisions in the Federal Courts of Appeals.”