“I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster”: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein says absence from state has not hindered his work”: Paul Egan of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

“Schuylkill County cheerleader’s Snapchat message puts student speech in front of the U.S. Supreme Court”: Peter Hall of The Morning Call of Allentown, Pennsylvania has this report.

“Law professor Amy Chua loses small group following allegations of parties, misconduct”: Julia Brown of The Yale Daily News has this report.

And at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site, David Lat has a post titled “Tiger Mother Amy Chua Roars Back At Yale Law School; The prominent professor has been stripped of certain teaching duties after allegations of misconduct — allegations she forcefully denies.”

Apparently no one called “No Takebacks!” Jessica Lowell of The Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine has an article headlined “Lawyer: Donor of controversial Augusta statue might be willing to take back his gift; Robert Fuller Jr. donated the statue of Melville W. Fuller to Kennebec County in 2013; Born in Augusta in 1833, Melville Fuller served as the eighth chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States when it institutionalized the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine.”

“11th Circuit’s Winn-Dixie ruling deepens confusion on ADA and digital access”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“Trump-era grievances could get second life at Supreme Court”: John Kruzel of The Hill has this report.

“On the court and online, Justice Clarence and Virginia Thomas hit Big Tech; The couple join a chorus of conservatives raising alarm about social media’s control over speech”: Dylan Byers of NBC News has this report.

“This Is What Judicial Activism Looks Like on the Supreme Court: In a dissent, two conservative justices invite a case to overturn a precedent on religion in the workplace that they dislike.” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Jones Day Adds Nine U.S. Supreme Court Clerks from 2019-20 Term”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report. And just like #SCOTUS, the Jones Day nine consists of six men and three women.

And Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal reports that “Jones Day Recruits Another Big Batch of Supreme Court Law Clerks; The firm was able to continue its signature annual foray into recruiting former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks this year, adding nine in recent months.”

“Testing the ‘Strength and Validity’ of the Canons: Justice Alito Gives a Shout Out to Corpus Linguistics!” James Heilpern has this post at The Juris Lab.

“Woman Versus the Union Machine: Suing Oregon and the SEIU to vindicate her right not to pay fees.” The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.