“Gun Cases Could Prompt Supreme Court to Bolster Second Amendment”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“William Barr’s State of Emergency: The attorney general has long held an expansive view of presidential power; With multiple crises converging in the run-up to the 2020 election, he is busy putting his theories to work.” Mattathias Schwartz has this profile online at The New York Times Magazine.

“Trump faces election risks in looming Supreme Court ruling on ‘Dreamers'”: Ted Hesson of Reuters has this report.

“Campaign Funds for Judges Warp Criminal Justice, Study Finds; Judges in Harris County, Texas, were far more likely to appoint lawyers who had donated to their campaigns to represent poor criminal defendants”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

And in Jarchow v. State Bar of Wisc., No. 19–831, Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, in which Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joined, from the denial of certiorari.