“Democrats Won the Senate. Can They Fix the Courts Now? Biden is inheriting a crisis in the federal judiciary.” Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Welcome & Luncheon Debate: Resolved: Employment Division v. Smith Should be Overruled.” The Federalist Society has posted this video — a part of the organization’s 23rd Annual Faculty Conference — online at YouTube. The debate features Michael McConnell and Eugene Volokh, with law professor Richard Garnett serving as moderator.

“The Constitutional and Moral Imperative of Immediate Impeachment: The process need not be long and drawn out; And it need not be limited to current officeholders.” Law professor Michael Stokes Paulsen has this essay online at The Bulwark.

“How Simon & Schuster Managed to Make Josh Hawley Look Almost Sympathetic: Canceling the senator’s book is not principled or courageous; It’s just lame and self-defeating.” Jack Shafer has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Trump legal vets torn over new impeachment defense; The crew that rallied behind the president in late 2019 is divided as House Democrats rush to impeach him once more”: Meridith McGraw and Daniel Lippman of Politico have this report.

Access this evening’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in 14 cases, which will produce a total of 12 hours of oral argument.

“Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski calls on President Trump to resign, questions her future as a Republican”: James Brooks of The Anchorage Daily News has this report.

“Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump”: Twitter has issued this news release.

Nitasha Tiku and Tony Romm of The Washington Post report that “Twitter permanently suspends Trump’s account; The social media giant took the action on Friday.”

Jessica Guynn of USA Today reports that “Twitter has permanently banned President Trump.”

Ryan Lovelace of The Washington Times reports that “Twitter permanently bans Trump, cites ‘risk of further incitement of violence.’“

“Corporate Secrets at Risk in Hack of U.S. Courts Documents”: Madison Alder, Perry Cooper, and Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“A Trump Self-Pardon Could Invite the Criminal Charges He Fears”: David Yaffe-Bellany of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Justice Department warns of national security fallout from Capitol Hill insurrection; Lawmakers are demanding a ‘full accounting’ of what was taken as rioters ransacked congressional offices”: Natasha Bertrand of Politico has this report.

“Trump’s options to reverse election dissolve after Electoral College certification”: Stephen Dinan has this lengthy front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Times.

“Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book; The publisher faced calls to drop the Missouri Republican’s upcoming book, ‘The Tyranny of Big Tech,’ following criticism of his efforts to overturn the presidential election”: Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter of The New York Times have this report.

Teo Armus of The Washington Post reports that “As Josh Hawley loses a book deal over the Capitol riots, his GOP mentor says backing him was ‘the worst mistake I ever made.’”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg has an article headlined “Publisher Simon & Schuster Cancels Publication of Sen. Josh Hawley’s Book; Publisher said it made the decision after Wednesday’s ‘deadly insurrection.’”

Jim Milliot of Publishers Weekly reports that “S&S Cancels Publication Plans for Book by Sen. Josh Hawley.”

Jack Suntrup of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that “Major Hawley donor has buyer’s remorse, says senator provoked riots, should be censured.”

Rudi Keller of the Missouri Independent reports that “Major Josh Hawley donor calls for him to be censured by the U.S. Senate; David Humphreys called Hawley an ‘an anti-democracy populist’ who provoked the D.C. riots.”

Katie Bernard of The Kansas City Star has an article headlined “A photographer and a fist pump. The story behind the image that will haunt Josh Hawley.”

Marianne LeVine of Politico reports that “Coons calls on Cruz and Hawley to resign; The Delaware Democrat said the two Republican senators who mounted challenges to Biden’s victory should step down in the aftermath of the deadly riots in D.C.”

Steve Inskeep of NPR has an audio segment titled “Ben Sasse Rips Trump For Stoking Mob, Calls Josh Hawley’s Objection ‘Really Dumbass.’”

And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Sasha Volokh has a post titled “Cancel Culture and Freedom: There are a lot of valid critiques of ‘cancel culture’; But the most important thing to remember is that it mostly consists of people legitimately exercising their own freedom.”

“U.S. Supreme Court’s Breyer in retirement spotlight after Democratic wins”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“With Merrick Garland pick, Biden signals stark contrast with Trump on Justice Department”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“An ‘angry’ Pence navigates the fallout of his rupture with Trump over election, Capitol riots”: Maureen Groppe of USA Today has this report.

“White House counsel considering resigning, source says”: Pamela Brown of CNN has this report.