“Trump, McConnell use American coronavirus death to ram through wretched judges, dirty air, and worse”: Columnist Will Bunch has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“The Supreme Court on Hold: The Justices may have to consider virtual oral arguments — or even delay their annual summer break.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Supreme Court to Weigh In on Wisconsin’s Absentee Ballots; High court to decide whether voters have until April 13 for absentee ballots to compensate for disruptions from coronavirus”: Jess Bravin and Alexa Corse of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Three Paths at Different Speeds Will Determine Justice’s Replacement; One process is in Gov. Brian Kemp’s office, while two sets of litigation to force an election to choose Blackwell’s successor are going forward, and in the most advanced case, the state Supreme Court announced Friday that a ruling may not come soon”: Jonathan Ringel of The Daily Report of Fulton County, Georgia has this article.

“A Series of Unfortunate Events”: Adrian Vermeule has this post at the “Mirror of Justice” blog.

“No mass prison release for now; federal panel says it can’t rule on coronavirus case”: Paige St. John of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Alexei Koseff of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Federal panel rejects bid to free prisoners to slow spread of coronavirus behind bars.”

Sam Stanton of The Sacramento Bee reports that “Judges deny emergency release of California inmates amid coronavirus crisis.”

And Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Judges balk at mass release of California prisoners over virus danger; But a panel’s ruling leaves the door open to cutting the prison population if the state doesn’t mitigate the threat from the coronavirus.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a three-judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Northern Districts of California at this link.

“New coronavirus limits bring new religious freedom tension”: Elana Schor of The Associated Press has this report.

“The coronavirus crisis is forcing the US Supreme Court to face its technology problem”: Ephrat Livni of Quartz has this report.

And Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court cancels oral arguments for rest of the term; Nine cases were to be argued during the two-week session beginning April 20, including a challenge to the current system used for electing the president.”

“Fifth Circuit Upholds Atheist Group’s Right to Display Altered Nativity Scene”: David Lee of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Martina Barash of Bloomberg Law reports that “Texas Faces New Claim in ‘Bill of Rights Nativity Exhibit’ Fight” (subscription required for full access).

You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Misguided dicta from Third Circuit panel on procedural aspects of sentence reduction motions under § 3582(c)(1)(A)”: Douglas A. Berman has this post at his “Sentencing Law and Policy.”

And at his “CA3blog,” Matthew Stiegler has a post titled “Third Circuit issues a ruling that could have a big impact on whether many prisoners win release due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit at this link.

“‘So Help Me God’ in U.S. Citizenship Oath Constitutional”: Julie Steinberg of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued Friday.