“Trump’s bid for Supreme Court election intervention has yet to materialize; The justices haven’t taken up a GOP request to review Pennsylvania mail ballots”: Devin Dwyer of ABC News has this report.

“Tennessee Supreme Court suspends jury trials due to rising coronavirus cases”: Brinley Hineman of The Tennessean has this report.

“SCOTUS may take up cases on abortion and LGBT rights; New 6-3 conservative majority on the court relies less on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.” Sandhya Raman of Roll Call has this report.

“Hawaii Supreme Court nominee Todd Eddins heads to full Senate for confirmation”: Dan Nakaso of The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has this report.

“An improbable journalist’s crusade against police impunity”: Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post about a qualified immunity appeal pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

“Pa. Supreme Court intervenes in Trump effort to disqualify mail ballots filed incorrectly by legal voters”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report on an order that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued today agreeing to consider this matter in an exercise of that court’s extraordinary jurisdiction.

“Catholic diocese and Orthodox Jewish synagogues ask Supreme Court to block New York’s Covid limits”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“President Trump’s defeat may give Supreme Court a rest from personal, policy lawsuits”: Richard Wolf of USA Today has this report.

“Trump, GOP Defy Precedent with Lame Duck Judicial Appointees”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Senate Republicans are racing ahead with post-election judicial confirmations, breaking a 123-year tradition against voting on judicial nominees of an outgoing president of the defeated party during a lame duck session.”

And Katherine Fung of Newsweek reports that “Trump Nominee Confirmed as Federal Judge in Florida Despite No Trials Since Passing the Bar.”

“In Defense of Unpopular Clients — and Liberty: Attacks on Trump’s lawyers echo those against us for representing Guantanamo detainees; Both are wrong.” Michel Paradis and Wells Dixon will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Rudy Giuliani Isn’t Even Trying to Make Coherent Legal Arguments Anymore”: Jeremy Stahl has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Budd confirmed as SJC chief justice; will be the first Black woman to lead state’s highest court”: Matt Stout of The Boston Globe has this report.

Erin Tiernan of The Boston Herald reports that “Kimberly Budd unanimously confirmed as first-ever Black woman to serve as chief justice of Supreme Judicial Court.”

And Steph Solis of The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts reports that “Kimberly Budd becomes chief justice of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, making history as first Black woman to lead high court.”

“Confirmation hearing for Kirsch set for today”: Marilyn Odendahl of The Indiana Lawyer has this post.

You can view the video of this morning’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Seventh Circuit nominee Thomas L. Kirsch II via this link.

“Shooting at Kings: Before he was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and progressive icon of the Supreme Court, he was a good man in a seedy Chicago ruled by cronyism; The corruption case that made Justice John Paul Stevens.” Ken Pisani has this article online at Medium’s “Truly*Adventurous” site.

“Rethinking Appellate Standards of Review for Video Evidence”: Judge Pierre H. Bergeron of Ohio’s First District Court of Appeals has this article in the current issue of Court Review, a publication of the American Judges Association.

“Challenge to Trump’s Lineup of Federal Executions Hits DC Circuit”: Megan Mineiro of Courthouse News Service had this report on an appeal argued Monday before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Early today, the panel issued this divided per curiam decision.

“I helped put Brandon Bernard on federal death row. I now think he should live.” Angela Moore has this essay online at The Indianapolis Star.