“Lawsuits Needn’t Block Recovery; Congress has the power to limit coronavirus liability while regulators develop rules to control contagion”: Former Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig and David B. Rivkin Jr. have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Dems question judicial nominee about past partisan remarks”: Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press has this report.

Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law reports that “Fifth Cir. Pick Says Obamacare, Voter ID Writings Were Politics.”

And in commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “McConnell Is Pushing Through Another Trump Judge Who’s Gunning for Obamacare.”

You can view via this link this afternoon’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Fifth Circuit nominee (and current Mississippi Court of Appeals judge) Cory T. Wilson.

“Trump Judges or Federalist Society Judges? Try Both. The group says it doesn’t endorse nominees for public office. Say what?” Caroline Fredrickson and law professor Eric J. Segall have this essay online at The New York Times.