“As Beshear prepares to lift COVID-19 rules, Supreme Court hears cases on governor’s powers”: Joe Sonka of The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has this report.

“Supreme Court chief quietly gave pay raise to himself and other judges without legislative approval”: Bobby Harrison of Mississippi Today has this report.

“‘The adult in the room’ — Eva Guzman could shake up Texas attorney general’s race.” Metro columnist Gilbert Garcia has this essay online at The San Antonio Express-News.

“Jury awards $15 million to people who lost eggs, embryos at S.F. fertility clinic”: Annie Vainshtein of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“Meet the federal judge who overturned California’s decades-old assault weapons ban”: Eric Levenson and Josh Campbell of CNN have this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Feinstein’s support of Judge Benitez way back in 2004 turns around and bites her in 2021.”

“Veronica Rossman — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“A Humane Judge, Gone Too Soon”: Columnist Jesse Wegman has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Judge Katzmann was a terrific judge and an even more terrific person”: Michael C. Dorf has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Why Does Elena Kagan Keep Roasting Brett Kavanaugh? The justice’s latest opinion may be an ominous sign for the Supreme Court’s upcoming blockbusters.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Newly Released Financial Disclosures Show Every Justice Supplemented His or Her Income in 2020; Books, teaching and rent lucrative for some, meager for others; justices’ reimbursed travel falls off 86% due to COVID”: Fix the Court issued this news release today and has posted the available financial disclosures online at this link.

“The Senate should confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the D.C. Circuit”: Law professor Carl Tobias has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“‘People of Praise leaders failed me’: Christian group tied to Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces reckoning over sexual misconduct.” Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites of The Washington Post have this report.