“Amul Thapar’s American Dream: He knows life tenure isn’t meant to create a judiciary of pundits.” This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Should Biden Pack the Supreme Court? As legislation, it’s doomed. As a threat, it’s brilliant. What Joe could learn from F.D.R.” Columnist Bill Scher has this essay online at Washington Monthly.

“Originalism’s Discontinuity Problem”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

And at “The Originalism Blog,” Michael Ramsey offers this response.

“Should party label appear on judicial ballots? Ohio Senate passes bill to make higher court races partisan.” Jackie Borchardt of The Cincinnati Enquirer has this report.

And Andrew J. Tobias of The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that “Bill listing party ID for Ohio Supreme Court candidates clears Ohio Senate.”

“Chauvin verdict reenergizes debate over Supreme Court’s legal deference for police”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“U.S. Supreme Court hears San Antonio’s challenge to $2M court tab owed to online travel companies”: Patrick Danner of The San Antonio Express-News has this report.

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg News reports that “Justices Dig Into Appellate Cost Awards With No Clear Winner.”

And Alexandra Jones of Courthouse News Service reports that “Cities Fight for Court Discount After Tax War With Online Travel Giant; What was once an $84 million tax judgment against Hotels.com is now a $2 million costs bill for the cities that had sued it; The Supreme Court waded into the 15-year entanglement Wednesday.”

You can access via this link the audio and transcript of today’s U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in San Antonio v. Hotels.com, L.P., No. 20-334.

“Kennebec County commissioners vote to return controversial statue to donor; Robert Fuller Jr., who gave the statue of Melville Fuller to the county and offered to take it back, will have up to a year to make arrangements to move the monument of the controversial jurist”: Jessica Lowell has this front page article in today’s edition of The Kennebec Journal of Augusta, Maine.

“Courts of Appeals Citations to the Former Lions of the Supreme Court’s Left and Right”: Adam Feldman has this post at The Juris Lab.

“Wells Fargo gets new hearing on ability of Oakland to sue over its minority lending practices”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.