“Civil Suit Against Trump Will Be a Rare Test of Free Speech; Prosecutors usually avoid testing the limits of the First Amendment, even in terrorism cases”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Senate Dems take a page from GOP in judicial nominee battles; The policy that Democrats are pursuing would make no change to the so-called ‘blue slip’ process that Republicans changed in 2017”: Marianne LeVine of Politico has a report that begins, “Senate Democrats are planning to continue the GOP’s approach to giving home-state senators veto power over lower court nominees — while granting freer rein to President Joe Biden’s circuit court nominees.”

And Madison Alder f Bloomberg Law reports that “Senators Can’t Veto Biden Circuit Picks, Maintaining GOP Policy.”

“Bostock was Bogus: Textualism, Pluralism, and Title VII.” Law professors Mitchell N. Berman and Guha Krishnamurthi have posted this essay at SSRN.

“Woman left with 22 stitches after NJ Transit bus attack can keep $1.8 million award, state Supreme Court rules”: Sophie Nieto-Munoz of NJ Advance Media has this report.

And David Porter of The Associated Press reports that “Court upholds woman’s $1.8M award in NJ Transit bus attack.”

You can access today’s 4-to-3 ruling of the Supreme Court of New Jersey at this link.

“Oral Argument Grant Rate in the Federal Court of Appeals (2019 Data)”: Bryan Gividen has this post at The Juris Lab.

“Pennsylvania’s Awful Plan to Gerrymander Judgeships: Electing judges is a terrible idea.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“The Upside-Down Treatment of Religious Exceptions Cases in the Supreme Court”: Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

“‘Watch it boys and girls’: Missouri cannabis lawyers face warning from state Supreme Court.” Jack Suntrup of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has this report.

“Rhode Island police search-and-seizure case makes it to Supreme Court”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Colorado Supreme Court asks other branches of government to pick investigators; Investigators would explore alleged effort to keep misconduct quiet”: David Migoya has this front page article in today’s edition of The Denver Post.

“Nevada Supreme Court justices seek a $30K pay hike”: Online at The Las Vegas Review-Journal, columnist Victor Joecks has an essay that begins, “The justices of the Nevada Supreme Court want the Legislature to give judges a $30,000 raise. No thanks.”

“California’s Shifting Relationship With the Supreme Court: A conversation with the constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky about what Californians can expect from a conservative court.” Jill Cowan has this discussion online at The New York Times.

“Right-wing justices think religion is under siege. Will the full Supreme Court follow?” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“Biden wants to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court, putting spotlight on lack of diversity in lower courts”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“#010: Juvaria Khan — Founder and Director of the Appellate Project Non-Profi‪t‬.” You can access the new installment of the “How I Lawyer Podcast with Jonah Perlin” via this link.

“Taking Complaint Public, Lawyer Confronts Appellate Court’s Delays; Jon Eisenberg is accusing three justices on California’s Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento of allowing some matters languish over the last three years; The court handles a heavy workload; At one point in 2018, it had the highest number of pending, fully briefed appeals per authorized justice among all state appellate districts”: Cheryl Miller of The Recorder has this report.

The attorney’s letter to California’s Commission on Judicial Performance can be accessed here.

“The tragedy of Dianne Feinstein”: Mark Z. Barabak of The Los Angeles Times has this news analysis.

“A Crazy Debt Repayment Rule Just Cost Revlon $900 Million; Laws letting creditors keep mistaken payments are outdated”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Executioners sanitized accounts of deaths in federal cases”: Michael Tarm of The Associated Press has this report.