Programming note: The Education Planning Committee meeting for the 2020 Appellate Judges Education Institute Summit in Austin, Texas has concluded. The 2020 AJEI Summit itself will take place in Austin November 12-15, 2020. I will be traveling home from Austin, Texas this afternoon and this evening. As a result, additional posts will appear here on Wednesday morning if not sooner.

As always while I am traveling, more frequent appellate-related retweets will appear on this blog’s Twitter feed.

“Wanted: A republican Judiciary.” Law professor Marc O. DeGirolami has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The coming Supreme Court showdown over birth control; Justice Scalia’s death delayed a reckoning; Now the fight over contraception is back”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“At Supreme Court, Another Potential Loss For Prosecutors Fighting Public Corruption”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

In the January 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker: David Rohde has an article headlined “William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield: The Attorney General’s mission to maximize executive power and protect the Presidency.”

Elizabeth Flock has an article headlined “How Far Can Abused Women Go to Protect Themselves? Fighting back against rapists and abusers is a valid legal defense; But women with persuasive self-defense claims continue to be charged with murder.”

And Louis Menand has a Books essay titled “The Changing Meaning of Affirmative Action: The past and the future of a long-embattled policy.”