“Supreme Court livestreams are high stakes test for justices, public; Millions will get first opportunity to hear justices working, in real time”: Devin Dwyer of ABC News has this report.

“D.C. judge: U.S. courts’ administrative agency can’t bar employees’ political speech.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“771 lawsuits — and counting: Wave of virus litigation hits businesses across the U.S.” Shayna Jacobs of The Washington Post has this report.

“Opioid Update: Judge Kethledge Reclaims Solitude — and Civil Procedure.” Benjamin Beaton has this post at the “Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog.”

The post contains a link to Sixth Circuit Judge Raymond M. Kethledge‘s recent TEDx Talk at the University of Michigan titled “Reclaim Solitude.”

“At long last, the Supreme Court is going live on air”: Bruce Collins, general counsel for C-SPAN, has this essay online at The Washington Post.

And online at Freedom Forum, Tony Mauro has an interview with Collins titled “C-SPAN and the Supreme Court’s Big Step Toward Live Broadcast of Arguments.”

“The Futility of Originalist Analysis in Second Amendment Cases”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“The Supreme Court Could Cripple America’s Pandemic-Fighting Capacity, Part II”: Simon Lazarus has this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.

“On nonunanimous jury issue, Supreme Court sends Jace Crehan murder case to appeals court”: Joe Gyan Jr. of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

“If Adrian Vermeule Didn’t Exist, Would Originalists Have to Invent Him?” Mike Rappaport has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“The latest on the national injunction at the Supreme Court; SCOTUS amici versus John Harrison”: Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“SCOTUS Could Take Up 2 Mass. Gun Laws”: Kimberly Atkins of WBUR in Boston has this report.

“High court poised to set ground rules for next round in quarantine fight”: Online at The Detroit Free Press, columnist Brian Dickerson has an essay that begins, “It’s been six weeks since the seven members of Michigan’s highest court met in the flesh, and so far they have watched the pandemic’s advance the same way most of us have, from the security and isolation of their own kitchens, family rooms and home offices.”

The Guardian (UK) has published additional articles in its ongoing series titled “Trump’s court takeover”: Tom McCarthy has an article headlined “How Trump has tipped the scales in America’s most powerful courts; How three appeals courts are becoming more conservative with the arrival of judges picked by Trump — and what that means for cases on issues like voting rights.”

Victoria Bekiempis has an article headlined “Meet some of Trump’s most conservative judicial picks; The Trump administration has appointed record numbers of judges to the federal courts, and progressive activists say some exemplify a strong conservatism that puts social protections at risk.”

David Smith has an article headlined “Trump is seizing the courts — only a Democratic win in November can stop him; Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary means the stakes have never been higher in an election than they are for Democrats.”

And Mona Chalabi has an item titled “Datablog: Trump’s courts takeover is male and white; Progress towards more diversity stalled under Trump as some 85% of his picks were white and 76% were men.”