“Chief Justice Roberts presided impartially, yet left questions whether Trump’s trial was a fair one”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“WV Supreme Court stopped impeachment of justices almost 2 years ago; lawmakers still trying to undo it”: Lacie Pierson has this front page article in today’s edition of The Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette-Mail.

“Chief Justice John Roberts emerges unscathed from Trump’s Senate impeachment trial”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“After 2 Supreme Court wins, Florida man gets $875K from city”: Curt Anderson of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Few people have fought any city hall all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won, but Fane Lozman did it twice. Now the Florida city he’s battled since 2006 is going to pay him thousands of dollars in legal fees.”

“This Trump Judge Tormented a Trans Woman — Because He Could; Stuart Kyle Duncan had a history of anti-LGBTQ bigotry before he joined the bench; Now he’s inflicting his pettiness and cruelty on vulnerable litigants”: Elie Mystal has this essay in the February 17, 2020 issue of The Nation magazine.

“Another Unnecessary Qualified-Immunity Appeal; When defendants flaunt the jurisdictional limits on the scope of interlocutory qualified-immunity appeals, everyone loses”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued Monday.

“Stormy Daniels picks new fight with President Trump over defamation ruling”: Priscella Vega of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Lawyers for Trump and Stormy Daniels face off in court over libel suit; Federal appeals judges heard arguments in Daniels’ effort to revive a lawsuit she filed over a hard-hitting Trump tweet.”

Martin Macias Jr. of Courthouse News Service reports that “Stormy Daniels Lobbies Ninth Circuit to Revive Suit Against Trump.”

And at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Donald Trump Defends SLAPP Rules Often Used by Media Orgs to Escape Nuisance Lawsuits; The ongoing Stormy Daniels saga is raising the prospect for strange bedfellows.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has posted on YouTube at this link the video of yesterday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel.