“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.

“Feds Can’t Spend More Prosecuting California Pot Growers”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued Friday.

“Texas Couple Found Guilty of Enslaving Girl From Guinea for 16 Years”: Niraj Chokshi of The New York Times had this article back in January 2019.

On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued this decision affirming the convictions.

“4th Circuit: Rastafarian Inmate Can Move Ahead With His Suit Over Solitary Confinement.” Howard Friedman has this post at his “Religion Clause” blog about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued Friday.

“Appeals court: 1st federal execution in 17 years can proceed.” Michael Balsamo of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court ruled Sunday that the first federal execution in nearly two decades may proceed as scheduled on Monday.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.

“Supreme Court future becomes pivotal issue in Senate races”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Supreme Court Lets Trump Win While Losing”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his blog, “Jost on Justice.

“Bostock and mindlessness”: Andrew Koppelman has this post at the “Balkinization” blog.

Also at that blog, Jason Mazzone has a related post titled “Bostock: Were the liberal justices namudnoed?“

“Before World War II and seat on Supreme Court, Colorado’s Byron ‘Whizzer’ White had iconic football career”: Ryan O’Halloran of The Denver Post has this report.

“Robocall case exposes a troubling free-speech split on the Supreme Court”: Columnist Michael McGough recently had this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes; For federal Indian law, this might be the Gorsuch Court”: Julian Brave NoiseCat has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“The Halted Progress of Criminal-Justice Reform; Prosecutors are charging protesters with federal crimes, exposing them to long prison sentences, in another example of the Justice Department’s grotesque overreach under Attorney General William Barr”: Jeffrey Toobin will have this Comment in the Talk of the Town section of the July 20, 2020 issue of The New Yorker.

“Think this was a liberal term at the Supreme Court? You probably missed some cases.” Law professor Leah Litman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Why did liberals win so many cases before a conservative Supreme Court? The Court’s term included several surprisingly liberal decisions. Don’t expect many of them to last.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Latest Term Shows John Roberts in Command of Shifting Coalitions; The chief justice, at the court’s center, is a strong voice for independence”: Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“For Oklahoma Tribe, Vindication at Long Last; After decades of betrayals and broken treaties, the Supreme Court ruled that much of Oklahoma is their land, after all”: Jack Healy of The New York Times has this report.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Annie Gowen has an article headlined “Supreme Court says nearly half of Oklahoma is an Indian reservation. What’s next?”

And Debra Utacia Krol of The Arizona Republic has an article headlined “Supreme Court ruling expanded tribal land. What does that mean for Arizona?“

“A small, mostly white Virginia town put up a ‘Black Lives Matter’ banner. Ginni Thomas denounced it.” Patricia Sullivan of The Washington Post has this report.

“The Tempting of Neil Gorsuch: The Justice’s textualism hands half of Oklahoma to Indian tribes.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Trump’s Justices Give Him a Boost But Supreme Court’s Balance Holds”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court defied Trump at key moments in blockbuster term”: Lawrence Hurley and Jan Wolfe of Reuters have this report.

“Thomas spoke, Roberts ruled in unusual Supreme Court term”: Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report.

“Chief Justice Roberts, in full control, steers the Supreme Court to a surprising term”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“With wave of major rulings, Roberts and Supreme Court emerge as powerful counterweight to Trump and Congress”: Robert Barnes has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“In a Term Full of Major Cases, the Supreme Court Tacked to the Center; Doling out victories to both sides, the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to strive to avoid charges of partisanship”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“More than ever, this is John Roberts’ Supreme Court; The George W. Bush appointee is leading from the center — and drawing Trump’s wrath along the way”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.

“Conservatives, Don’t Give Up on Your Principles or the Supreme Court; Some are turning away from a founding idea, originalism”: Law professor William Baude has this essay online at The New York Times.