“A useful litmus test for the next Supreme Court justice”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Trump Taps Amy Coney Barrett — Memo Lays Out Tactics for Opposition; A new memo spells out the myriad options available to Sen. Chuck Schumer to delay confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice”: Ryan Grim of The Intercept has this report.

“Why the Democrats won’t pack the Supreme Court”: Columnist Rich Lowry has this essay online at The New York Post.

“Supreme Court fight pushes Senate toward brink”: Jordain Carney of The Hill has this report.

And Julia Musto of Fox News reports that “Sen. Tom Cotton launches ‘Supreme Court War Room’ to defend Trump’s nominee; Cotton’s initiative will track attacks on the nominee and provide rapid response to push back.”

“Shifting from a 5-4 to a 6-3 Supreme Court majority could be seismic; Court conservatives won’t need Chief Justice Roberts’s vote to advance their agenda”: Law professors Leah Litman and Melissa Murray have this essay online at The Washington Post.

“This is the Supreme Court’s tipping point”: David Cole has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Honoring and Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: Harvard Law School has posted this video on YouTube.

And Brett Milano of Harvard Law Today has a related report headlined “‘It’s hard to imagine a more consequential life’; Harvard Law professors remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a teacher, inspiration and friend.”

“The legal theories of Amy Coney Barrett, explained: An expert explains originalism, the Roberts Court, and what a Justice Barrett might do.” Dylan Matthews of Vox has this interview of Keith Whittington.

“SCOTUS Contender Amy Coney Barrett’s Mixed Record in Criminal Cases; While the 7th Circuit judge is often skeptical of the government’s position, some of her conclusions will give pause to civil libertarians”: Jacob Sullum has this post online at Reason.

“Judge Amy Coney Barrett has shown me how to both live my faith and serve my country; Judge Barrett is an inspiration to me and undoubtedly to many others like me”: Maggie Garnett has this essay online at Fox News.

“Notable legal opinions of Trump’s planned U.S. Supreme Court pick Barrett”: Jan Wolfe of Reuters has this report.

“How Amy Coney Barrett Would Reshape the Court — And the Country: More than two dozen legal thinkers game out what President Trump’s new Supreme Court pick means for America’s biggest legal fights, the court’s reputation, the fate of its ‘swing seat’ and more.” Politico Magazine has this report.

“Amy Coney Barrett Deserves to Be on the Supreme Court; I disagree with Trump’s judicial nominee on almost everything; But I still think she’s brilliant”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Barrett’s Record: A Conservative Who Would Push the Supreme Court to the Right; As an appeals court judge, her opinions have reflected those of her mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia, but with few of his occasional liberal rulings.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Barrett Clerked for Scalia. Conservatives Hope She’ll Follow His Path. For years, the conservative movement has been searching for someone who could lead American jurisprudence to the right with the kind of intellectual rigor that conservatives say made Justice Antonin Scalia so effective for decades.” Michael D. Shear and Elizabeth Dias of The New York Times have this report.

“My 5-year-old asked Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ‘Have you ever made a mistake?’ Here’s her answer.” Mark Shavin has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The bombshell consequences of Amy Coney Barrett”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Meaning of Amy Coney Barrett: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s likely successor could become a different kind of three-initialed icon.” Columnist Ross Douthat has this essay online at The New York Times.

And also online at that newspaper, law professor Lara Bazelon has an essay titled “Amy Coney Barrett Is No Ruth Bader Ginsburg; When it comes to the Supreme Court, we’ve been to this identity politics movie before.”

“The Judicial Wars Started on Biden’s Watch. Can He End Them? He reveres Senate custom and recognizes the courts’ essential role in shaping a policy agenda. Those dual instincts have perhaps never been in greater conflict.” Matt Flegenheimer, Alexander Burns, and Katie Glueck of The New York Times have this report.

“Democrats debate whether to engage — or withdraw — in Supreme Court fight”: Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane of The Washington Post have this report.

“I taught and worked with Amy Coney Barrett. Here’s what people get wrong about her faith.” John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America, has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Ginsburg breaks one final barrier as first woman to lie in state at Capitol”: Karoun Demirjian has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Supreme Court Fight Returns Lindsey Graham to Spotlight; Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, which will consider court nominee, is currently tied in polls against well-funded Democrat Jaime Harrison”: Siobhan Hughes of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Trump Will Nominate Amy Coney Barrett Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Buried”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Mourning the Way RBG Calmly Approached Opposition; It’s something we are losing with her, and something that is no longer possible”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Report: My Visit To U.S. Supreme Court In Memory Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Matthew Klint has this post at his “Live and Let’s Fly” blog.

“Trump Selects Amy Coney Barrett to Fill Ginsburg’s Seat on the Supreme Court; The president’s nomination of Judge Barrett, a favorite of conservatives, to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will kick off a furious and unprecedented scramble to confirm her in the Senate before Election Day”: Peter Baker of The New York Times has this report.

Anne Gearan, Seung Min Kim, and Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post report that “Trump expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg seat, kicking off Supreme Court fight weeks before election.”

Catherine Lucey of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Trump Plans to Nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Fill Supreme Court Vacancy; The president is expected to choose the solidly conservative judge with strong Republican support to succeed the late liberal-leaning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Conservatives expect Trump to choose Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court.”

Peter Alexander, Garrett Haake, and Adam Edelman of NBC News report that “Trump has decided to select Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court; An official announcement to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat is set for Saturday at the White House.”

And The Los Angeles Times has published an editorial titled “Amy Coney Barrett is qualified — but should not be confirmed.”

“Notre Dame profs push back on Amy Coney Barrett portrayals: Not just ‘an ideological category.'” Christian Sheckler of The South Bend Tribune has this report.

“The Quiet 2013 Lunch That Could Have Altered Supreme Court History; President Obama met with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hinting at retirement, but the art of nudging justices off the court is politically delicate and psychologically complicated”: Susan Dominus and Charlie Savage of The New York Times have this report.

“Sources: Trump intends to choose Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court.” Jamie Gangel and Pamela Brown of CNN have this report.

“How the Lawyer-Spouses of Amy Barrett and Barbara Lagoa Could Spur Recusal Issues; In 1993, seven Supreme Court justices took the unusual step of spelling out in public how they would handle cases in which close relatives were active lawyers”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Why We Fight So Ferociously Over the Supreme Court: Judicial ambition and congressional dysfunction have given an unelected body enormous power to shape American society.” David French will have this essay in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“A Supreme Court Fight Might Be Exactly What America Needs; From the courts to Congress, we might need fewer embalming norms and more room for victories and defeat”: Columnist Ross Douthat has this essay online at The New York Times.

“The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It”: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Why the Supreme Court Fight Is a Tightrope for Trump in November; His pick is likely to galvanize Democrats while bringing him few new voters, and could hurt some Republican Senate incumbents; But the president needs to steer the debate away from the virus”: Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times have this news analysis.

Caroline Vakil and Jiachuan Wu of NBC News report that “Supreme Court nominations are taking longer. Time is not on Trump’s side. After Ginsburg’s death, what a data analysis of Supreme Court confirmations tells us.”

Burgess Everett of Politico reports that “Republicans prep lightning-quick Supreme Court confirmation; Senate GOP leaders are eager to hold a pre-election vote on Trump’s yet-to-be named nominee.”

And at FiveThirtyEight, Nathaniel Rakich has a post titled “Most Americans Want To Wait Until After The Election To Fill The Supreme Court Vacancy.”