“Interview: Kannon Shanmugam.” Anna Salvatore has posted this interview at her “High School SCOTUS” blog.

“Prosecuting political corruption cases like Bridgegate is nearly impossible; Lawmakers, fancy lawyers and courts make it very hard to put crooked officials in prison”: Law professor Leah Litman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Did SCOTUS Partially Edit Out The Toilet Flush? I hear subtle differences.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Fact check: The Supreme Court did not deem social distancing unconstitutional in 1866.” Molly Stellino of USA Today has this report.

“Gov. Dunleavy recall effort can proceed, Alaska Supreme Court rules”: James Brooks of The Anchorage Daily News has this report on an order that the Supreme Court of Alaska issued yesterday.

“Idaho governor appeals to Supreme Court to stop trans inmate’s surgery; A lower court had ruled that the prisoner’s gender-affirming surgery is a medical necessity, and denying it constituted a violation of the Eighth Amendment”: Julian Shen-Berro of NBC News has this report.

And on Thursday, Idaho’s governor issued a news release titled “Gov. Little appeals to U.S. Supreme Court to stop transgender inmate’s sex-reassignment surgery.”

“Aimee Stephens brought the first major trans rights case to the Supreme Court. She may not live to see the decision. Stephens has entered hospice care due to long-term health issues.” Katelyn Burns of Vox has this report.

“Kristen Biel lost her job after a cancer diagnosis, then died. The Supreme Court will decide if her lawsuit is valid.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “Courts have long acknowledged an exception in the law that keeps ‘ministers’ of a faith from bringing employment discrimination claims against their religious employers, capped by a unanimous Supreme Court decision eight years ago.”

“Trump administration asks court to toss lawsuit over ERA”: Denise Lavoie of The Associated Press has this report.

“The Left Is at War With the Little Sisters of the Poor; Let the nuns and the federal government reach a deal on contraception and Obamacare, as the Supreme Court asked them to”: Ramesh Ponnuru has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

Reuters Investigates launches a special report titled “Shielded: The U.S. high court’s continual refinement of an obscure doctrine called qualified immunity has made it harder to hold police liable for excessive force.” Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley, Jackie Botts, Andrea Januta, and Guillermo Gomez have the lead article headlined “For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection.”

In addition, Hurley and Chung have an article headlined “Before the court: A united front takes aim at qualified immunity.”

Hurley and Januta report that “When cops kill, redress is rare — except in famous cases.”

Januta and Botts have a report headlined “Taking the measure of qualified immunity: How Reuters analyzed the data.”

And a final item is headlined “Six takeaways from Reuters investigation of police violence and ‘qualified immunity.’“

“Avoiding — but Not Disarming — the Finality Trap; Rather than disarm the finality trap, the Fifth Circuit found a way to avoid it: an odd, unintuitive, and unnecessary use of Rule 54(b).” Bryan Lammon has this important post at his “final decisions” blog.

“Justice Clarence Thomas Finds His Voice; The long-silent jurist makes some noise as the Supreme Court shifts to teleconferenced arguments”: Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“No one in this country is above the law. The Supreme Court is about to teach that lesson.” George T. Conway III has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Roberts Rejects Request for Inquiry into D.C. Appeals Court Vacancy; The top circuit court judge had asked the complaint be transferred and investigated, but the chief justice’s office said it did not qualify”: Carl Hulse of The New York Times has this report.

“Dropping of Flynn Case Heightens Fears of Justice Dept. Politicization; Across the country, rank-and-file prosecutors cringed at another extraordinary intervention by Attorney General William P. Barr”: Katie Benner and Charlie Savage will have this article in Saturday’s edition of The New York Times.

“What Kim Kardashian and Prince William Can Teach Us About Remote Oral Arguments”: Derek Stikeleather has this post at the “Maryland Appellate Blog.”

“Full Federal Appeals Court Urged to Reconsider Panel’s Right-to-Literacy Ruling”: Mark Walsh has this post at the “School Law” blog of Education Week.

“House and Trump attorneys urge Supreme Court to decide core issues in case over Trump’s finances”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Investigation: I Think I Know Which Justice Flushed; Someone on the Supreme Court livestreamed a bathroom session; The evidence suggests a particular culprit.” Ashley Feinberg of Slate has this report.

“Oklahoma’s Suspect Argument in Front of the Supreme Court; The state claims that affirming a reservation in eastern Oklahoma could lead to thousands of state criminal convictions being thrown out; But that argument doesn’t seem to be based on facts”: Rebecca Nagle, host of the must-hear “This Land” podcast addressing this very issue, has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Trump’s Bid to Stand Above the Law: Next week, the Supreme Court will hear lawyers argue the president’s claim that he has absolute immunity while in office.” Law professors Claire O. Finkelstein and Richard W. Painter have this essay online at The New York Times.

“‘We’re going to fill it’: Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy; GOP senators denied Obama a seat on the high court. They’ll deliver for Trump.” Burgess Everett of Politico has this report.

“Court: ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ is Seinfeld’s show.” Larry Neumeister of The Associated Press has this report.

Adam S. Levy of The Daily Mail (UK) reports that “Jerry Seinfeld victorious in court case over who created his Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

Shawn M. Carter of FOXBusiness reports that “Jerry Seinfeld wins court battle over ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’; Pilot director wanted ownership rights of talk-show series.”

Josh Russell of Courthouse News Service reports that “Second Circuit Pulls Curtain on Producer Who Sued Seinfeld.”

And at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter, Eriq Gardner has a post titled “Appeals Court Gives Jerry Seinfeld the Win in ‘Comedians in Cars’ Dispute; The Second Circuit affirms a decision that Christian Charles, who directed the pilot, had waited too long to challenge Seinfeld’s claim of being the sole author of the show.”

You can access yesterday’s non-precedential, unpublished summary order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link.

“Gorsuch Gets Moment as Decider in Case Evoking Trail of Tears”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Utah gun advocate loses appeal to block bump stock ban”: Colleen Slevin of The Associated Press has this report.

Brian Flood of Bloomberg Law reports that “Trump’s Bump Stock Ban Withstands Appeals Court Challenge.”

And Martin Macias Jr. of Courthouse News Service reports that “10th Circuit Upholds Trump Administration’s Bump-Stock Ban.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit at this link.

“Trump’s indefensible refusal to defend Obamacare”: Law professor Neal Katyal has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“From Guns to Church, Emergency Virus Measures Test Core Rights”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

Online at Rolling Stone, Jamil Smith has an essay titled “They Are Giving You Death and Calling It Liberty; The reckless Republicans opening America up to a deadly pandemic want us to risk sacrificing our lives for their power.”

Online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has an essay titled “Whose Freedom Counts? Anti-lockdown protesters are twisting the idea of liberty.”

And online at The Atlantic, Ibram X. Kendi has an essay titled “We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic; The pandemic has brought the latest battle in the long American war over communal well-being.”

“Wisconsin Supreme Court justices pledged not to write new law. Could they do that in coronavirus case?” Molly Beck and Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have this report (subscription required for access).

Online at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, columnist Daniel Bice has an essay titled “Supreme Court Chief Justice Roggensack blasted as ‘elitist,’ ‘out of touch’ for meatpacking remark.”

And online at Esquire, Charles P. Pierce has a post titled “The Wisconsin Supreme Court Hearing on Tuesday Was Compelling Theater of the Absurd. In which Justice Rebecca Bradley goes full Glenn Beck. (Never go full Glenn Beck.)“

“Supreme Court of Canada to hold virtual hearings in June”: Sean Fine of The Globe and Mail of Toronto has an article that begins, “The country’s highest court is about to begin an experiment in a key stage of its legal process: oral argument.”

According to the article, “The video hearings will put the Supreme Court far in front of its U.S. counterpart, which this month began holding hearings by telephone conference calls.”

“John Barrow and the brewing fight over a vanished Supreme Court race”: Columnist Jim Galloway has this essay online at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Governor announces state has filed appeal to U.S. Supreme Court in Edmo case”: Betsy Z. Russell of the Idaho Press has an article that begins, “Gov. Brad Little announced today that the state of Idaho has filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to reverse a federal appeals court order requiring the state to provide surgery to Idaho prison inmate Adree Edmo, a transgender woman housed in a men’s prison.”

“Climate change unleashes interstate water wars”: Pamela King of Greenwire has an article that begins, “A looming Supreme Court showdown over water flows from the Pecos River may be the first in a rising swell of interstate water battles driven by climate change.”

“Equifax judge orders disclosure of class counsel’s draft ‘opinion'”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Hawaii Supreme Court Hears Maui Water Case In A Historic Online Session; The Hawaii Supreme Court is weighing long-standing disagreements over stream water diversion in East Maui”: Chad Blair of Honolulu Civil Beat has this report.