“How the Supreme Court operates with only 8 justices; Two high-profile cases on the docket”: Paul Best, Shannon Bream, and Bill Mears of Fox News have this report.

“Democrats See a Glimmer of Hope Over Supreme Court Fight in Arizona’s Senate Race; If Mark Kelly wins a special election, he could end up casting a crucial vote on President Trump’s nominee”: Hank Stephenson and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times have this report.

“How Democrats Could Pack the Supreme Court in 2021: Their base is already calling for a radical next move; Would they do it?” Jeff Greenfield has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Trump eyes Cuban American judge from Florida for Supreme Court”: John Kennedy and Richard Wolf of USA Today have this report.

“Joe Biden’s Court Vacancy Plan: More Talk of Health Care and the Pandemic; Mr. Biden has spent months assailing President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus; With a bitter Supreme Court confirmation battle looming, he will seek to link the vacancy to the pandemic and the future of health care.” Shane Goldmacher, Katie Glueck, and Thomas Kaplan will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Top Contender for RBG’s Seat Has a Fundamentally Cruel Vision of the Law; Here’s what we can expect if Trump fills the late justice’s seat”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Increases The Likelihood That Obamacare Is Repealed Next Year; The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional in November when three Trump appointees could hold the balance of power”: Paul McLeod of BuzzFeed News has this report.

“Trump Says Supreme Court Nominee Will Be a Woman; President says he expects to announce a pick next week, predicting process will go quickly”: Catherine Lucey, Brent Kendall. and Kristina Peterson of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

And Andrew Restuccia and Michael C. Bender of The Wall Street Journal report that “White House Counsel, Others Steer Trump’s Supreme Court Nomination Strategy; Federalist Society, other conservatives are influential; Pat Cipollone is key adviser.”

“What’s next for the Supreme Court?” Lyle Denniston has this blog post.

“RBG From the Point of View of the Universe”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

At the “Balkinization” blog, Jack Balkin has a post titled “RIP RBG.” And Gerard N. Magliocca has a post titled “The Suspension of Unanimous Consent.”

And at his “Jost on Justice” blog, Kenneth Jost has a post titled “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Pioneer for Gender Equality.”

“RBG died hoping to achieve one more thing, but what she gave us all was more than enough”: Columnist Mary McNamara has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

“Conservatives’ Supreme Court Dreams Move Closer to Reality”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Maine’s senior senator says the Senate may begin the process of reviewing President Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but a vote shouldn’t take place before the election”: Rob Wolfe of The Portland (Me.) Press Herald has an article that begins, “U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Saturday said she would oppose replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the November election, though she would not object if the Senate began the process of vetting President Trump’s potential nominee.”

Casey Grove of Alaska Public Media reports that “Alaska Senator Murkowski said Friday she would not vote for a justice ahead of Inauguration Day.”

Matt Canham and Paighten Harkins of The Salt Lake Tribune have an article headlined “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death will spark a political fight. Mike Lee, Mitt Romney will likely play prominent roles.”

And Alex Seitz-Wald and Vaughn Hillyard of NBC News report that “A Mark Kelly win in Ariz. Senate race could spoil McConnell’s plans to replace Ginsburg; If he’s victorious Nov. 3, the Democrat, former astronaut and husband of Gabby Giffords might take office in time for the vote.”

“‘We (Heart) You RBG’: NY celebrates Ginsburg, homegrown icon.” Robert Bumsted of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is being celebrated in her native New York City with plans for a statue, landmarks lit in blue and impromptu memorials at her childhood home in Brooklyn and the high school she attended.”

“Is 8 enough? Court vacancy could roil possible election case.” Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has this report.

“Let’s Appreciate Justice Ginsburg Before We Fight Over Replacing Her; The unseemly wrangling over who should name her successor betrays misunderstanding of the Supreme Court”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“What’s at stake in a new Supreme Court: If Trump gets a conservative justice, environmental regulations, Roe v. Wade, the Affordable Care Act, and affirmative action programs would be in jeopardy.” Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

And online at Bloomberg Opinion, Sunstein has an essay titled “Ginsburg Cleared Path to Include the Excluded; On the Supreme Court and in daily life, she stood up for respect and human dignity.”

“Can Trump and McConnell Push Through a Successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg?” Jeffrey Toobin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Amy Coney Barrett emerging as a front-runner to fill Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat; While the timing is fluid, a White House official and a separate source familiar with the discussions say a nominee could be announced ‘in the coming days'”: Geoff Bennett, Shannon Pettypiece, and Monica Alba of NBC News have this report.

Seventh Circuit Judge Amy C. Barrett (as she has chosen to be known on that court’s website) on September 19, 2019 delivered the Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and you can view the video of her remarks on YouTube via this link.

“Narrowing Down the 44-Person Not-So-Short List; Above all else, the nominee must be willing to walk into the slaughter, knowing they may get slaughtered”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

Also at that blog, Ilya Somin has a post titled “A Possible Deal on Ginsburg’s Replacement that Could Prevent Court-Packing; Simply put: Republicans agree not to vote on a replacement for Ginsburg until January; Democrats agree not to pack the Court.”

“Trump Presses for New Justice ‘Without Delay’ as Election-Season Battle Looms; The president is likely to nominate a successor this coming week to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, but Senate Republicans are weighing whether they have the votes to confirm his choice before the Nov. 3 election”: Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this report.

Carl Hulse and Adam Liptak of The New York Times have an article headlined “Leading Candidates to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy; President Trump has vowed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘without delay’; Here is who might fill the seat.”

Emily Cochrane of The New York Times has an article headlined “How Mitch McConnell Can Quickly Push Through Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee; The rules and partisan breakdown of the Senate make it possible for Republicans to swiftly confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee; Here’s how.”

And Larry Buchanan and Karen Yourish of The New York Times report that “Ginsburg Supreme Court Vacancy Is the Second Closest to a U.S. Election Ever.”

“Statements from the Supreme Court Regarding the Death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: The Public Information Office of the U.S. Supreme Court has posted these statements online.

“Justice Ginsburg Leaves a Lasting Legacy on the Court”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg remembered by entire generations of lawyers”: Laura Crimaldi and Jeremy C. Fox of The Boston Globe have an article that begins, “She entered Harvard Law School in 1956 as just one of a few women enrolled in a class of 500.”

And The Columbia Spectator has posted online an article originally published in 1972, written by Richard Briffault (himself now a law professor at Columbia Law School), headlined “Law school names first Woman Professor.”

“What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Want America to Do Now; Throughout all of the late-breaking, notorious fame, the justice knew that she was just one link in the chain”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Who might succeed Justice Ginsburg? Trump’s short list begins with these four women (and one man).” Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

Drew Broach of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has an article headlined “Metairie native Amy Coney Barrett on Donald Trump’s short list to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg: reports.”

And Josh Wingrove, David Yaffe-Bellany, and Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News report that “Amy Coney Barrett Emerges as Front-Runner for Trump Court Pick.”

“‘This means everything’: Trump finds new rallying cry with Ginsburg seat; Just over six weeks from Election Day, the president’s team is mobilizing to quickly announce a nominee to replace late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Anita Kumar, Gabby Orr, and Meridith McGraw of Politico have this report.

Kyle Cheney of Politico has an article headlined “What’s next in the Senate’s colossal Supreme Court fight: Mitch McConnell will try to move quickly to confirm a nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but it won’t be easy.”

Natasha Korecki and Alex Isenstadt of Politico report that “Ginsburg’s death just blew up the 2020 campaign; It’s been a remarkably stable race in a remarkably unstable year; Friday’s news delivered an enormous jolt, with consequences no one yet knows.”

Ryan Lizza of Politico has an article headlined “How RBG’s death could radicalize American politics; The battle over her replacement has the potential to spur far-reaching, long-term change.”

And online at Politico Magazine, John F. Harris has an essay titled “Court fight will test how fragile American democracy really is; In trying to ram through a replacement for Ginsburg, Mitch McConnell elevates power over principle.”

“Waiting to Fill Ginsburg’s Seat Could Be Trump’s Key to Victory; Keeping Republicans hungry for a more conservative court is the only guarantee of earning their support”: Tim Alberta of Politico Magazine has this report.

In addition, Politico Magazine has published an article headlined “‘The Most Important Woman Lawyer in the History of the Republic’; How did Ruth Bader Ginsburg change America? More than a dozen legal thinkers weigh in.”

“How RBG’s death will impact hot-button issues before the Supreme Court; The shift on the court could have major consequences for rulings on abortion rights, Obamacare and even the presidential election”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.

“A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.”