“Trump on court-packing: ‘Politically correct Supreme Court will get what they deserve.'” Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report on a statement that former President Trump issued today.

“Connecticut Defends Prison Porn Ban as Boon to Female Staff; The Second Circuit seemed leery Monday about the push to strike down a 2012 ban against sexually explicit images as unconstitutional”: Emilee Larkin of Courthouse News Service has this report on an appeal argued today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

“‘Shadow Dockets’ Are Normal. The Way SCOTUS Is Using Them Is the Problem. The Supreme Court is not a trial court.” Law professor Steve Vladeck has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Christian right is racking up huge victories in the Supreme Court, thanks to Amy Coney Barrett; The Supreme Court is serious about exempting religious conservatives from the law — even when their rulings could kill people”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“The Supreme Court Broke Its Own Rules to Radically Redefine Religious Liberty”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate consisting of an interview with law professors Jim Oleske and Steve Vladeck.

“Supreme Court’s Bridgegate Ruling Casts Shadow on Federal Fraud Cases; Court’s 2020 decision limiting application of antifraud laws leads prosecutors to urge dismissal of most charges in high-profile insider-trading case”: Dave Michaels of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“What the Liberal Justices Can Still Do on a 6-3 Court: They’re adapting textualism; They should at least make use of it.” Jacob Finkel has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Ninth Circuit court blocks Republican-led states from reviving ‘public charge’ rule”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on an order that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, dissenting) issued Thursday.

“Panel of federal judges rules Gov. Tony Evers can keep conservative group MacIver out of events”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued Friday.

“Tiffany Cunningham — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Federal Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“The Roberts Court, First Amendment Fanaticism, and the Myth of Originalism”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Trump’s Power Won’t Peak for Another 20 Years; By the early 2040s, Trump-appointed chief judges will simultaneously sit atop nearly every appeals court in the country”: Jacob Finkel has this essay online at The Atlantic.

In response, law professor Marin K. Levy has this Twitter thread in which she writes that Finkel’s essay “is *deeply problematic* and misreads my scholarship.”