“What the First Amendment Really Says About Whether Trump Incited the Capitol Riot”: Law professor Catherine J. Ross has this essay online at Slate.

“Reform Through Resignation: Why Chief Justice Roberts Should Resign (in 2023).” Law professor Scott Bloomberg has posted this paper at SSRN.

“Prelogar Is to Be Chosen as Biden’s Acting Solicitor General”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Justice Department Seeks to Limit Scope of Landmark LGBT Rights Decision; New directive, aimed at a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, comes in the waning moments of the Trump administration”: Sadie Gurman and Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Trump Ends Where He Began, Fighting Release of His Tax Returns”: David Yaffe-Bellany of Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Education of Josh Hawley: The subversive senator’s college peers and professors don’t recognize the affable intellectual they once knew; But they do recognize his ambition.” Ruairí Arrieta-Kenna and Emily Cadei have this article online at Politico Magazine.

“How federal circuits can create judicial vacancies without help from Congress — new paper”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Cooley’s Elizabeth Prelogar Will Return to DOJ Solicitor Office as Top Deputy; Elizabeth Prelogar, who served as an advisor on the Mueller team, is expected to step into her new Justice Department role Wednesday, according to sources close to the Biden transition team; She will serve as acting solicitor general until a new solicitor general is appointed and confirmed by the Senate”: Marcia Coyle and C. Ryan Barber of The National Law Journal have this report.

“Judge Fletcher: ‘Johnson Strikes Again’; Judge Fletcher again offered his unique take on Johnson v. Jones and asked the Supreme Court to overrule it; But I don’t read the case like he does.” Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“First Black justice on Oklahoma Supreme Court to retire”: Barbara Hoberock has this front page article in today’s edition of The Tulsa World.

“Roberts to swear in yet another president who opposed him”: Mark Sherman of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “Someday, perhaps, John Roberts will swear in a new president who doesn’t wish someone else was chief justice of the United States. Wednesday won’t be that day.”

“Could Sen. Josh Hawley’s ‘reckless disregard for truth’ cost him Missouri law license?” The Kansas City Star has published this editorial.

“Trump transformed the Supreme Court that mostly helped advance his agenda”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report, along with a related item headlined “A four-year timeline of Donald Trump and the Supreme Court.”

“The Federalist Society And The Capitol Attack: What Is To Be Done? Will all the behind-the-scenes drama and soul-searching take FedSoc to a better place?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“The challenges of teaching the Constitution in the age of Trump”: Law professor Nikolas Bowie has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Shirley Abrahamson, Trailblazing Wisconsin Judge, Dies at 87; The first female chief justice of her state’s Supreme Court, she was on the short list for the U.S. Supreme Court seat that went to Ruth Bader Ginsburg”: This obituary, written by Richard Sandomir, appeared in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Supreme Court Case Could Limit Future Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuel Industry; The court will hear arguments on a technical legal question in a case that demands fossil fuel companies help pay for the costs of dealing with climate change”: John Schwartz of The New York Times has this report.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.