“Going After Qualified-Immunity Appeals; If qualified immunity sticks around in its present or an altered form, the rules governing qualified-immunity appeals rules will need to change”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“Supreme Court leaves in place laws in Chicago, Pennsylvania that restrict antiabortion protesters”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press reports that “High court won’t hear abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’ cases.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs abortion clinic protest zone challenges.”

And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Rejects Challenges to Abortion-Clinic Bubble Zones.”

“Supreme Court sidesteps abortion cases, shortly after striking Louisiana restrictions; Chief Justice John Roberts’ vote with the court’s liberal judges to overturn the Louisiana law wasn’t the win for abortion rights advocates that many assumed”: Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico has this report.

“Roberts and Thomas Battle Over Burke”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“How Chief Justice Roberts Solved His Abortion Dilemma: For the moment, the right to choose is safe; But the outlook is ominous.” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“President Trump has transformed the federal courts, but John Roberts still leads them”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Access online today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in four new cases.