“How an anti-democratic Constitution gave America Amy Coney Barrett; The Republican Supreme Court was brought to you by a malapportioned Senate and the Electoral College”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“With Justice Barrett, Is the End Near for Racial Preferences? A new majority may stop equivocating on affirmative action, which has impeded black mobility.” Columnist Jason L. Riley will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Amy Coney Barrett joins a Supreme Court that’s largely out of step with the national consensus”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“It’s up to John Roberts to save his court”: Dana Milbank has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Why a New Abortion Ban in Poland is Causing a Furor: The ruling party has tried and failed in the Parliament to restrict abortion; Now the courts it controls have done it, instead, sparking the biggest protests since the government came to power.” Monika Pronczuk of The New York Times has an article that begins, “Tens of thousands of Poles have defied Covid-19 restrictions to protest against a new high court ruling that imposes a near-total ban on abortion, blocking major roads and bridges and chanting anti-government slogans.”

“The Supreme Court Wants to Determine Who Votes and Who Wins; As Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in, the other justices made their intentions clear”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“4 upcoming Supreme Court cases will reveal who Amy Coney Barrett really is; We know she’s conservative; We don’t yet know if she’s a nihilist”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Trump Broke the Supreme Court, Too; Amy Coney Barrett’s arrival strips away even the pretense of neutrality or nonpartisanship”: Andrew Cohen has this essay online at The Washington Spectator.

“Kavanaugh has wild ideas about voting. They likely won’t matter on Election Day. The Supreme Court’s recent rulings don’t mean the justices will decide the presidential race.” Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“What kind of conservative will Amy Coney Barrett be? The election could depend on it.” Law professor Edward B. Foley has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Trump is the greatest president in the modern era when it comes to shaping the judiciary”: Columnist Marc A. Thiessen has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Harvard-Yale Duopoly on Clerks Doesn’t Fit Barrett’s Background”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“The Amy Coney Barrett Hail-Mary Touchdown: Republicans understand that Barrett’s confirmation is coming just a week before a potential electoral ‘bloodbath’; They don’t care.” Emma Green of The Atlantic has this report.

“Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Is Proof That Norms Are Dead”: Sarah Jones has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York Magazine.

“How Democrats Can Learn Hardball From the Republicans of 1861; Sometimes restoring democracy requires rewriting the rules”: Joshua Zeitz has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Sworn In Under Darkness at the White House”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“How to Fix the Supreme Court”: The New York Times has posted online a series of seven essays along with an introduction from Emily Bazelon titled “How We Got Here.”

Law professor Kent Greenfield has an essay titled “Create a New Court.”

Law professor Steven G. Calabresi has an essay titled “Give Justices Term Limits.”

Melody Wang has an essay titled “Don’t Let the Court Choose Its Cases.”

Law professor Aaron Tang has an essay titled “(Threaten) to Pack the Courts.”

Larry Kramer has an essay titled “Pack the Courts.”

Law professor Leah Litman has an essay titled “Expand the Lower Courts.”

And law professor Randy Barnett has an essay titled “Keep the Courts the Same.”

“The Republican Party’s Supreme Court; The quest to entrench political conservatism in the country’s highest court comes with a steep cost”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Muere el juez federal Juan R. Torruella, referente entre los juristas puertorrriqueños; Fue el primer boricua en el Circuito de Apelaciones de Boston y único hispano. Además, fue un destacado atleta del deporte de vela a nivel mundial y participó en cuatro Juegos Olímpicos”: José A. Delgado and Alex Figueroa Cancel of Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Dia have this report.

Also online at that newspaper, Alex Figueroa Cancel has an article headlined “Jueces federales rinden homenaje a Juan Torruella en los tribunales de la isla; La bandera se bajó a media asta en el Viejo San Juan y Hato Rey.”

Madison Alder and Daniel Gill of Bloomberg Law report that “1st Cir. Judge Juan Torruella Dies, Court’s First Hispanic.”

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman has a post titled “Judge Torruella, the Lone First Circuit Judge in Puerto Rico, Passed Away; There is no statutory requirement that his successor must reside in Puerto Rico.”

“Justice Barrett Joins the Court; A landmark for the judiciary, without any guaranteed outcomes”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And also in today’s edition of that newspaper, columnist James Taranto has an op-ed titled “We May Get a Conservative Chief Justice; If Roberts joins the liberals, Thomas gets to assign the opinion.”

“‘Fat and Happy’ With a Conservative Court, Are Republicans Losing a Winning Issue? President Trump and his party pushed Justice Barrett’s confirmation through in record time; But they could find that satisfied voters, who no longer fear the specter of a liberal court, are also complacent.” Jeremy W. Peters of The New York Times has this news analysis.

“In Swearing In Barrett, Trump Defiantly Mimics ‘Superspreader’ Rose Garden Ceremony; Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice only eight days before a presidential election”: Peter Baker has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.