“Senate hits pause on confirming Trump’s judges; Senate Republicans are vowing to renew their push on judicial nominees once they return to the Capitol”: Marianne LeVine of Politico has this report.

“Liberal Challenger Defeats Conservative Incumbent in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race; Republicans’ voter suppression efforts appear to have backfired”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Judicial Zoom: Courts rapidly adopting videoconferencing tech to conduct business.” Ryan Lovelace of The Washington Times has an article that begins, “The Zoom videoconferencing platform is fast becoming the judiciary’s technology of choice to conduct business while following social distancing requirements for the coronavirus pandemic.”

“Ninth Circuit Review — Reviewed: CA9 Is Broken.” William Yeatman recently had this interesting post at the “Notice & Comment” blog of the Yale Journal on Regulation.

“Little Rock abortion clinic files challenge to order banning surgeries amid pandemic”: Linda Satter of The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has this report.

And Ema O’Connor of BuzzFeed News reports that “Arkansas Is Being Sued For Banning Abortions During The Coronavirus But Letting Dentists Continue Taking Appointments; Arkansas is the sixth state to try to block abortion access during the pandemic.”

“Supreme Court To Hear 3 Cases Involving Trump Financial Records Via Teleconference”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Liberal Jill Karofsky defeats conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Daniel Kelly”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

“How a Supreme Court Decision Curtailed the Right to Vote in Wisconsin”: Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times have this report.

“Jill Karofsky Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race in a Boost for Liberals; In results delayed by voting changes forced by the virus, Ms. Karofsky defeated the conservative incumbent in an upset, and Joe Biden defeated Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary”: Reid J. Epstein of The New York Times has this report.

“Jill Karofsky declares victory over incumbent Daniel Kelly for Wisconsin Supreme Court seat”: Briana Reilly of The Cap Times of Madison, Wisconsin has this report.

The New York Times is tracking the results “live” via this link.

“Judge Justin Walker — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“Courtroom access: For DACA recipient, the experience of hearing a Supreme Court argument was bittersweet.” Casey Quinlan has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“The Supreme Court Will Hear Arguments by Phone. The Public Can Listen In. For the first time, the nation’s highest court will open a live audio feed as it hears arguments in 10 sets of cases.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Due to coronavirus, Supreme Court will hear oral arguments via telephone for first time.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court to hear Trump tax case, others via telephone in May.”

And Todd Ruger of Roll Call reports that “Supreme Court to hear oral arguments by telephone in May; High court will also look to livestreaming of proceedings.”

In the April 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker: Jane Mayer has “A Reporter at Large” article headlined “How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief; The Senate Majority Leader’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.”

And Jerome Groopman has a book review essay titled “Do Some Surgical Implants Do More Harm Than Good? Many are clearly lifesaving, but others have proved to be life-threatening, and dangerous implants are marketed with scant oversight.”

“Zoom Arguments — A View from the Texas Supreme Court”: Justice Eva Guzman of the Supreme Court of Texas has this guest post at the “Appellate Advocacy Blog.”

“Three Years Later, Gorsuch Delivers”: Mike Davis and David Feder have this essay online at Townhall.

“It’s unclear if Colorado counties can legally evict visitors to slow coronavirus. But one is doing it anyway. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues that Gunnison County’s order intended to keep the community’s small hospital from being overwhelmed is unconstitutional. Other Colorado communities are following suit to shut out visitors.” Nancy Lofholm has this article online at The Colorado Sun.

“The Judge Will See You On Zoom, But The Public Is Mostly Left Out; Volunteers who monitor courts across the country say they are getting little access to online-only proceedings”: Jamiles Lartey of The Marshall Project has this report.

“All seven Supreme Court justices voted absentee, even those who hadn’t in the past”: Columnist Daniel Bice has this essay online at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Abortion dispute spurs whiplash for abortion clinics in Texas”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

And Ephrat Livni of Quartz reports that “Texas’ ‘severe’ pandemic abortion ban lands at the US Supreme Court.”

“Supreme Court for first time to hold arguments via teleconference next month”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal report that “Supreme Court to Break Tradition, Hold Oral Arguments by Teleconference; Court plans phone arguments in May, including in cases about President Trump’s financial records.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Supreme Court to hold May arguments by teleconference.”

Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters report that “U.S. Supreme Court to hear Trump financial records cases by teleconference in May.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Bows to Crisis With Arguments Via Conference Call.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Supreme Court to hear cases on Trump’s financial docs, religious freedom and Electoral College via telephone.”

Tucker Higgins of CNBC reports that “Supreme Court to hear historic oral arguments over Trump tax records and Electoral College virtually in May.”

Josh Gerstein of Politico reports that “Virus threat prompts Supreme Court to set phone arguments; The court will hear disputes over Trump financial records and Obamacare religious exemption next month.”

And John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court to hear oral arguments by telephone.”

According to the news release that the U.S. Supreme Court issued today, a live feed of the oral argument will be provided only to members of the news media. Whether the “How Appealing” blog will qualify as “news media” for this purpose remains to be seen.

In any event, presumably the news media receiving the live audio feed will have the First Amendment right to broadcast the audio feed live to the general public, making my earlier question moot.