“Homicide in Tulsa ‘first real test’ of Supreme Court decision affecting criminal jurisdiction on Indian land”: Harrison Grimwood of The Tulsa World has an article that begins, “A Tulsa man was accused in the death of his girlfriend, a Cherokee Nation citizen, the day after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that redefined what federal and state prosecutors have historically known as ‘Indian Country.'”

“The Supreme Court Is Still Capable of Shocking the Nation; Justices Gorsuch and Roberts showed they’re not partisan robots in decisions at the end of term”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judge blocks Justice Dept. from resuming federal executions as court battles mount”: Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

Holly V. Hays, Tim Evans, Natalia E. Contreras, and Justin L. Mack of The Indianapolis Star report that “Judge delays executions hours before Daniel Lewis Lee is set to die by lethal injection.”

And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “A Judge Blocked The Trump Administration From Carrying Out Lethal Injections Hours Before A Man Was Scheduled To Die; The Justice Department filed an immediate appeal in the case of Daniel Lewis Lee and other death row inmates challenging the administration’s new lethal injection protocol.”

“The Supreme Court’s Big Rulings Were Surprisingly Mainstream This Year”: Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux has this post at FiveThirtyEight.

“Supreme Court appears likely to sidestep Obamacare hearing before election; The justices said they won’t hear the Trump-backed lawsuit in October when they return”: Susannah Luthi of Politico has this report.

“An inside look at how Trump’s Supreme Court list is made: ‘A tremendous investment of time’; Trump announced he would release an updated list by Sept. 1.” Tyler Olson of Fox News has this report.

“Native American Sovereignty Is No Liberal Triumph; The tribes that will benefit from last week’s Supreme Court ruling are anything but progressive”: Law professor M. Todd Henderson has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“John Roberts Is Just Who the Supreme Court Needed; The chief justice has worked to persuade his colleagues to put institutional legitimacy above partisanship”: Jeffrey Rosen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Supreme Court to hear Georgia Gwinnet College case about religion, free speech”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Federal judge throws out Georgia’s anti-abortion law”: Maya T. Prabhu of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report on a ruling that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued today.

“It Wasn’t Roberts That Changed This Term. It Was the Cases SCOTUS Heard. In the Trump era, conservative litigators and courts have been emboldened.” Law professor Leah Litman has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.