“Congressional Democrats’ Court-Picking (Not Packing) Scheme; Their election bill tries to game the judiciary by routing all legal challenges to the District of Columbia”: Alan Gura will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“A Supreme Court Ruling Protecting Payday Lenders Could Also Save Facebook and Martin Shkreli”: Mekela Panditharatne has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s high-profile year: A conversation with Justice Brian Hagedorn.” Naomi Kowles of Channel3000 of Madison, Wisconsin has this report, which includes video clips from the interview.

“Barrister avoids jail over Supreme Court breach”: Dominic Casciani of BBC News has this report.

“Arson investigation opened after small fire at Hawaii Supreme Court”: The Honolulu Star-Advertiser has this report.

“Biden Administration Reverses Trump-Era Rollback of Gay, Transgender Protections in Health Care; HHS uses authority under Title IX of Civil Rights Act, cites Supreme Court ruling last year prohibiting discrimination against LGBT workers”: Tarini Parti of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Trial Begins for Lawyer Who Sued Chevron Over Ecuador Pollution; Steven Donziger faces criminal contempt charges for allegedly refusing to obey a federal judge who found he acted corruptly in Ecuador”: Sara Randazzo of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Veteran judge nominated to be chief justice of Maine’s high court; Valerie Stanfill has most recently served as a Superior Court justice for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties”: The Portland Press Herald has this report.

Leela Stockley of The Bangor Daily News reports that “Janet Mills nominates next Maine supreme court chief justice.”

And Robbie Feinberg of Maine Public Radio reports that “Janet Mills Nominates Superior Court Judge Valerie Stanfill For Chief Justice Opening.”

Today, the Office of Governor Janet T. Mills issued a news release titled “Governor Mills Nominates Justice Valerie Stanfill as Chief Justice of Maine Supreme Judicial Court.”

“Will He Stay or Will He Go?: Calls Mount for Breyer to Retire.” This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column will appear in tomorrow’s edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“We compared the Supreme Court with other democracies’ high courts. More justices would improve its work. More justices could produce more opinions — and improve consistency in U.S. law.” Professors Clifford J. Carrubba, Matthew J. Gabel, Jay N. Krehbiel, Sivaram Cheruvu, and James F. Spriggs II have this entry at the “Monkey Cage” blog of The Washington Post.

“Let’s Get Partisan: The Importance of Appointing Party in the Justices’ Votes and More.” Adam Feldman has this post at The Juris Lab.

“Men Repeat at Lectern — Firms, U.S. Drive Supreme Court Gender Gap”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “Five men argued in 13% of U.S. Supreme Court cases this term, underscoring a persistently wide gender gap at the lectern that’s driven in many instances by the U.S. government and star systems at Big Law firms.”