“Stephens may not live to hear result of transgender rights case”: Melissa Nann Burke of The Detroit News has this report.

“Reopening Plan Sketchy As Supreme Court Set To Rule In GOP Safer-At-Home Lawsuit”: Marti Mikkelson of Milwaukee’s NPR affiliate WUWM has this report.

“Wisconsin gets the derision it deserves for its partisan Supreme Court”: Dave Zweifel has this essay online at The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin.

“Ransomware attack takes down Texas court network”: Chuck Lindell of The Austin American-Statesman has an article that begins, “The computer network serving the state’s appeals courts and judicial agencies has been shut down since a ransomware attack was discovered Friday morning.”

“Ohio Supreme Court dismisses request to postpone trial because of coronavirus concerns”: Jeremy Pelzer of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has an article that begins, “The Ohio Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition to delay what would have been the nation’s first coronavirus-era trial, as the judge hearing the case already postponed it after the defendant was hospitalized with symptoms of the disease.”

“Supreme Court to hear two cases that could affect 2020 election”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Washington’s ‘faithless electors’ head to Supreme Court in a case that could throw 2020 election into chaos”: David Gutman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Seattle Times.

“Secrecy of Trump’s taxes, financial records on the line in Supreme Court arguments; House committees and a N.Y. prosecutor want to get their hands on the president’s documents in twin blockbuster cases on Tuesday”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.

“How Ginsburg’s and Kagan’s recent opinions send a healthy signal about the Supreme Court”: Columnist Charles Lane has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“A judge’s guide to the Supreme Court livestream”: Senior Third Circuit Judge Marjorie O. Rendell has this essay online at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“The Supreme Court and Trump’s Tax Returns: The stakes are bigger than the political fate of this President.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.

“Judge asked to step down in Connecticut transgender case; Lawyers argue order on filings shows bias”: Christopher Vondracek of The Washington Times has an article that begins, “Attorneys have filed a motion to disqualify a federal judge from their lawsuit against a Connecticut policy that allows transgender girls to compete in girls’ and women’s athletics, noting that the judge has ordered that transgender athletes not be referred to as ‘male’ in hearings and court filings.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Anti-LGBTQ Firm Tries to Disqualify Judge Because He Won’t Let It Misgender Trans Kids.”

“The Chief Justice Quashes a Political Stunt; Roberts says there’s no basis for a liberal smear against a retiring judge”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Does L.A. Catholic school have a religious-liberty right to fire a teacher who gets cancer?” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

And on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Weighs Whether Parochial Schools Are Exempt From Fair Employment Laws.”

“Harvard’s Affirmative Action Program Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect”: Yuvraj Joshi has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“How Supreme Court Doctrine Protects Cops Who Kill (or Otherwise Use Excessive Force); A Reuters report suggests changes in qualified immunity doctrine have immunized police officers sued for misconduct”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

I linked to the articles in the Reuters report in this earlier post.

“Mail-In Election Risks Dragging Out a Trump-Biden Count for Days”: Ryan Teague Beckwith of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Supreme Court battle over Donald Trump’s finances carries risks for all three branches”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

In commentary, online at The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic has an essay titled “The Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy the Balance of Powers: By accepting Trump’s argument for keeping his finances secret, the Court could strip Congress of its ability to hold this, or any, president to account.”

And at Justia’s Verdict, law professor Rodger Citron has an essay titled “President Trump Clashes with Legal Oversight in Three Cases to be Argued at the Supreme Court.”

“Supreme Court examines discrimination lawsuits against religious schools”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Justice Thomas’s Faux-Originalist Critique of Overbreadth is Radically Underinclusive (and Wrongheaded in Other Ways Too)”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his “Dorf on Law” blog.

“Viral toilet flush blooper actually shows merits of Supreme Court live audio feed”: Anthony Marcum and Shoshana Weissmann have this essay online at the Washington Examiner.

Access the live audio of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in McGirt v. Oklahoma and in Our Lady of Guadalupe v. Morrissey-Berru: C-SPAN will broadcast the audio of the first case via this link. And C-SPAN will broadcast the audio of the second case via this link.