“Trump’s campaign is challenging mail and provisional ballots at record rates in Philly and its suburbs”: Jeremy Roebuck and William Bender of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“Few Courts Have Intervened in Elections in Ways Sought by Trump Campaign; President’s team wants judges to prevent Pennsylvania and Michigan from certifying election results”: Jacob Gershman will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Ken Paxton Fought Trump’s Legal Wars From Texas. Now He’s in Trouble. The Texas attorney general, who fought against the Affordable Care Act and mail-in voting, has been accused of wrongdoing by his own aides amid calls for his resignation.” David Montgomery and Manny Fernandez will have this article in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Barr’s Decision on Voter Fraud Inflames Existing Tensions With Anticorruption Prosecutors; The department’s handling of President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and a potential case against the former interior secretary exacerbated tensions with career prosecutors”: Katie Benner of The New York Times has this report.

And online at The New Yorker, David Rohde “William Barr Can Stop Donald Trump’s Attempted Coup.”

“Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Vote May Save Obamacare This Time”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this post online at The New Yorker.

“Jeffrey Toobin Is Fired by The New Yorker; The star journalist exposed himself on a video conference call last month; ‘We take workplace matters seriously,’ a Condé Nast executive said”: Katie Robertson of The New York Times has this report.

And in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Lukas I. Alpert will have an article headlined “New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin After Zoom Incident; Staff writer had been suspended since the October episode in which he exposed himself to colleagues.”

“Few legal wins so far as Trump team hunts for proof of fraud”: Maryclaire Dale and Alanna Durkin Richer of The Associated Press have this report.

“The majority of judges polled oppose lifetime appointments”: Anna-Leigh Firth has this report online at the National Judicial College.

“After election win, MI Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack prepares for second term”: Doug Tribou of Michigan Radio has a report that begins, “Changes are coming to the Michigan Supreme Court. Voters elected West Michigan attorney Elizabeth Welch and reelected Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack. Both were Democratic Party nominees, and in the new term, the court will flip to a majority of justices backed by Democrats. The court will also have more women than men.”

“Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes; The president’s litigation strategy is unlikely to succeed, but it’s doing great harm in the meantime”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Illinois Supreme Court draws Republican criticism for picking interim replacement for Justice Kilbride, who lost bruising retention effort”: Ray Long of The Chicago Tribune has this report.

“Shock and frustration inside Justice Dept. over Barr’s vote-investigation memo”: Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky have this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“First openly gay justice confirmed to serve on the California Supreme Court”: Maura Dolan has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has an article headlined “California confirms first openly gay state Supreme Court justice — Martin Jenkins.”

Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service reports that “Martin Jenkins Confirmed to California’s High Court.”

And Merrill Balassone of California Courts Newsroom has a news release titled “Justice Martin J. Jenkins Confirmed to California Supreme Court; Praised for his ‘brilliant intellect, first-class temperament, and boundless humanity,’ Justice Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay California Supreme Court justice and only the third African American man to serve on the state’s highest court.”

“For the True-Crime Junkies: Miami Criminal Defense Lawyer Launches Star-Studded Podcast; The first episode features Donna Rotunno, who represented disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein, sentenced to 23 years in prison for committing a criminal sex act and third-degree rape.” Raychel Lean of the Daily Business Review recently had this report.

The podcast is titled “For the Defense with David Oscar Markus,” and its host is the author of the “Southern District of Florida Blog.” This week’s episode focuses on attorney Tom Mesereau’s representation of the defendant in People of the State of California v. Michael Jackson. You can listen to the first three episodes of the podcast, each focusing on a different case, via this link.

Videos available on YouTube from the Federalist Society’s 2020 National Lawyers Convention: This year’s event is taking place entirely online. Here are links to some programs of interest from the event’s first two days:

“Religious Liberty and the New Court“;

“Rule of Law, or Just Making it Up? First Amendment Tiered Scrutiny“;

“Freedom of Association in the Legal Profession“;

“Regulating Social Media“; and

“Are MDL Judges Too Powerful?“

The event continues today, and additional videos and today’s live programming can be accessed via this link.

“How Will the SCOTUS Reject the Challenge to Obamacare?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“John Roberts has heard just about enough of Obamacare for one lifetime”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

And Josh Gerstein of Politico has a report headlined “5 key moments from the latest SCOTUS Obamacare showdown: From a peeved chief justice to analogies about broccoli and lawn care, a few things stood out during the high-profile arguments.”