“Justices Put Off Ruling on Trump Plan for Unauthorized Immigrants and Census; The Supreme Court said a challenge to efforts to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the tabulations used to allocate House seats was premature”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Tara Bahrampour have an article headlined “Supreme Court won’t decide yet if Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants when allocating congressional seats.”

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has an article headlined “With punt, Supreme Court largely ends Trump census plan to exclude immigrants lacking documentation.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Puts Off Ruling on Whether Census Tally Should Include Immigrants in U.S. Illegally; Trump administration wanted to exclude group from population count, which is used for congressional redistricting.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today has an article headlined “Supreme Court: Challenge to Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census is premature.”

Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court puts off ruling on Census count that excludes illegal immigrants.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. Supreme Court throws out challenge to Trump census immigrant plan.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Top Court Rejects Challenge to Trump Census Bid as Premature.”

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court throws out challenge to Trump census plan to exclude undocumented immigrants; ‘This case is riddled with contingencies and speculation,’ the court said in a short, unsigned opinion, referring to the states’ challenge.”

Ariane de Vogue and Veronica Stracqualursi of CNN report that “Supreme Court throws out challenge to Trump’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census count.”

Tyler Olson, Bill Mears, and Shannon Bream of Fox News report that “Supreme Court dismisses case on excluding illegal immigrants from census count as ‘riddled’ with ‘speculation’; Trump issued memorandum that illegal immigrants not be counted for congressional representation.”

Zach Montellaro and Josh Gerstein of Politico report that “Supreme Court punts on Trump bid to exclude immigrants from census; The high court’s six Republican nominees ruled that the legal challenge to Trump’s order was ‘premature.’”

John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court tosses challenge to Trump’s immigrant census plan.”

Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “The Supreme Court Put Off Ruling On Trump’s Final Push To Use The Census To Target Undocumented Immigrants; The court’s conservative justices agreed with the administration that a legal challenge was ‘premature’; The liberal justices dissented.”

Alexandra Jones of Courthouse News Service reports that “Supreme Court Nixes NY Challenge to Trump’s Census Shake-Up.”

And on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court Dodges Trump’s Plan To Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Census.”

“Looking at child slaves on cocoa farms, Supreme Court may extend legal ground for globalized U.S. firms; U.S. Supreme Court justices may step into a clash over human rights and the reach of U.S. companies in foreign countries”: Jim Spencer and Kristen Leigh Painter of The Minneapolis Star Tribune have this report.

“The Scalia/Garner canons: Departures from established law.” Neal Goldfarb has this post at his “LAWnLinguistics” blog.

“Gov. Lujan Grisham fills Supreme Court vacancy”: New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham issued this news release today.

“Trump Discussed Naming Campaign Lawyer as Special Counsel on Election Fraud; In a meeting at the White House on Friday, the president weighed appointing Sidney Powell, who promoted conspiracy theories about rigged voting machines, to probe voter fraud”: Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times have this report.

“How Amy Coney Barrett Is Already Making a Mark on the Court; Plus Michigan’s secretary of state and the real bellwethers for defending democracy”: You can access via this link this week’s new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast in which, among other things, law professor Steve Vladek returns the favor by appearing on Dahlia’s podcast.

“The Supreme Court’s confusing new ‘religious liberty’ order, explained; The Court delays its religious liberty revolution for a truly odd reason”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“California Church Asks Judge to Lift Pandemic Restrictions on Indoor Services”: Martin Macias Jr of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Episode 2: Grumpy Muppets (with Dahlia Lithwick).” This week’s new installment of the “In Loco Parent(i)s” podcast with Karen and Steve Vladek, featuring their guest, Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick — who of course is herself the host of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast.

I have now listened to the first two episodes of the “In Loco Parent(i)s” podcast, and I have really enjoyed it and plan to be a devoted listener of future episodes. I totally agree with those who have observed that Karen Vladek has the perfect podcast voice. I’m hoping they can convince her to narrate the next season of “Serial” if that’s still a thing.

Because the “In Loco Parent(i)s” podcast focuses on lawyers raising children, I can’t help but recall that in August 2011 my wife, my son, and I had the pleasure of meeting Dahlia and her two sons for breakfast at Dahlia’s house in the Charlottesville, Virginia area while my family was on a college tour through the mid-Atlantic and southeast area that I summarized in this post.

Our visit to Charlottesville coincided with what remains one of the most memorable earthquakes to strike that area in recent times. Indeed, the visit with Dahlia was certainly a highlight of the trip, which otherwise involved trying to avoid one natural disaster after another — starting with the poor air quality in the Norfolk, Virginia area as a result of the Great Dismal Swamp fire; followed by the earthquake; culminating in the arrival of Hurricane Irene, which not only caused us to return home early from the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina but also ended up causing plenty of destruction in the Philadelphia area where we reside. Fun times!

For those who have made it this far, let me close this post by noting that I too made my first-ever podcast guest appearance this week (you can listen via this link) where I discussed the origins of this blog and talked about how I became an appellate lawyer and the path my legal career has taken — and even mentioned how wanting to have more time to spend with my family factored in to career-related decisions.

“Judicial Notice: December 18, 2020; Notable legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.