“Trump wants to be king. Did John Yoo just hand him the crown?” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

He who seeks equity must do equity: A judge serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit emails:

Beginning this week, you will notice Fifth Circuit opinions have a completely new format, and the Equity Text A font replaces Century Schoolbook, which the court has used since 2007.

During the transition, some opinions will be issued with the old format and some with the new format.

To see it for yourself, yesterday the Fifth Circuit issued this published opinion using the Equity font.

One minor criticism of the Court’s first example using this new font — whoever created this opinion did not have Equity’s italic font pack installed. (The Typography for Lawyers site offers this depiction of the differences between the actual italic font and the regular font — the latter of which will simply appear slanted when the italic font pack isn’t installed).

Update: Today’s example of a Fifth Circuit opinion using the new font (access here) does have the Equity italic font pack installed, so perhaps problem solved!

“SCOTUS Doesn’t Trust Congress — And That’s a Problem for American Government; The past decade has witnessed a dangerous trend: a judicial branch that expresses deep suspicion of the legislative branch’s competence and motives”: Law professors Jonathan S. Gould and Olatunde C.A. Johnson have this essay online at The Atlantic.

“What would Mitch McConnell do if Ginsburg’s seat became vacant? You know perfectly well.” Columnist Nicholas Goldberg recently had this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“The Justice Department’s Shameful Rush to Federal Executions: The push to impose the federal death penalty no matter the cost poses a grave threat to the rule of law.” Cate Stetson and Ruth Friedman recently had this essay online at The New York Times.

“What’s at stake if Trump gets to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Lazy and overtly partisan arguments would be likely to prevail with the Supreme Court.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“The Class of RBG: The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59 — as told by them, their families, and a Supreme Court justice who remembers them all.” Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead have this jurisprudence article online at Slate.

A lightly-edited transcript of Lithwick’s interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg about the subject of the article can be accessed here.

And the new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast is titled “The Class of RBG: Who were the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law class? The justice remembers them all.”

“Lawyer suspected in fatal shooting at N.J. federal judge’s home may have been targeting another judge”: Anthony G. Attrino of NJ Advance Media has this report.

Joe Atmonavage and Ted Sherman of NJ Advance Media have an article headlined “Judge Esther Salas and Mark Anderl were brought together by the law. Now they face ‘unspeakable loss.’”

And Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and Tamar Lapin of The New York Post report that “Roy Den Hollander may have been hunting foes after cancer diagnosis.”

“The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail; In a trove of documents published online, Roy Den Hollander directed misogynistic and racist insults at U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, and expressed support for the president”: Joshua Benton has this report online at The Atlantic.

“Flynn urges appeals court to end the battle over dismissing his case; The Justice Department also weighed in against Judge Emmet Sullivan’s petition for full court review”: Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein of Politico have this report.

“‘There’s no way to have 100% security’: Federal judge reflects on violent threats 15 years after losing loved ones.” Katelyn Polantz of CNN has this report.