“Democrats Couldn’t Stop a Third Trump Supreme Court Nominee; Liberals don’t have a lot of options other than praying for the health of Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Judge overturns $200 ethics fine for R.I. Supreme Court justice; Superior Court judge says Ethics Commission never showed that Justice Flaherty’s failure to disclose position on Catholic group was ‘deliberate or intentional'”: Edward Fitzpatrick of The Boston Globe has this report.

In earlier coverage, back in March, Fitzpatrick had an article headlined “High court judge spends a year fighting low-dollar fine; A R.I. Supreme Court justice has been fighting a $200 ethics fine for months — using a taxpayer-funded insurance policy.”

“Conservatives blast Supreme Court ruling: Roberts ‘abandoned his oath.'” Marty Johnson of The Hill has an article that begins, “Conservative lawmakers blasted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after he sided with the court’s liberal wing in a 5-4 decision Friday that rejected a Nevada church’s request to block the state government from enforcing a cap on attendance at religious services.”

In commentary, online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The Supreme Court’s surprising decision on churches and the pandemic, explained; Nevada churches brought an unusually strong challenge to the state’s public health rules, but they lost anyway.”

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman has a post titled “The Three Dissents in Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v. Sisolak.”

“Misogynistic Lawyer Who Killed Judge’s Son Had List of Possible Targets; The list was found after the lawyer killed himself and had more than a dozen names, including three other judges and two doctors”: William K. Rashbaum of The New York Times has this report.

And WBGO Radio, Newark, New Jersey’s NPR affiliate, reports that “Murder of Federal Judge’s Son comes amidst Surge in Threats on Jurists and Their Families.”

“Federal judge blocks rollout of Tennessee’s strict new abortion restrictions as court weighs law’s fate”: Mariah Timms has this front page article in today’s edition of The Tennessean.