“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.

“Robert Katzmann, U.S. Judge With Reach Beyond the Bench, Dies at 68; As chief of the Second Circuit in New York, he championed immigrants’ rights, judicial transparency and schooling the public on the law; In 2019 he dealt Trump a blow”: Sam Roberts of The New York Times has written this obituary.

“Indiana Supreme Court rules for man who spent years battling state for his Land Rover”: Johnny Magdaleno of The Indianapolis Star has this report.

And Tom Davies of The Associated Press reports that “Indiana court nixes Land Rover seizure over $400 drug deal.”

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Indiana at this link.

“Biden’s pick for appeals court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, clears Senate hurdle despite GOP opposition”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“Supreme Court Limits Sweep of Law on Mandatory Minimum Sentences; Violent felonies committed recklessly do not count in deciding whether 15-year terms are required under the Armed Career Criminal Act, the justices ruled”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court limits federal law requiring enhanced sentences for repeat offenders.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Narrows Reach of Repeat-Offender Law; The justices ruled that recklessly violent crimes don’t trigger more prison time for felons convicted of gun possession.”

Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law reports that “Divided High Court Sides With Defense on Repeat-Offender Law.”

John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Gorsuch, Thomas join liberal justices in siding with criminal defendant.”

And Jack Rodgers of Courthouse News Service reports that “Old Reckless Crime Shouldn’t Lengthen Gun Sentence, High Court Rules; The Supreme Court split 5-4 on the case Thursday, with Justices Neil Gorsuch Clarence Thomas splitting off from other conservative members of the bench.”

Today in Borden v. United States, No. 19-5410, Justice Elena Kagan announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion in which Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Neil M. Gorsuch joined. Justice Clarence Thomas issued an opinion concurring in the judgment. And Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh issued a dissenting opinion, in which Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Amy Coney Barrett joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

“Jeffrey Toobin is back at CNN eight months after exposing himself on Zoom”: Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy of CNN have this report.

“‘It Is a Sordid Thing, This Divvying Us Up by Race’; Government racial preferences are far from the only source of our divisions, but they may be the one most amenable to legal abolition”: John O. McGinnis has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“We’re Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, and We’re Braced for the Worst”: Shannon Brewer has this guest essay in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“QI In Context”: Adam Feldman has this post at The Juris Lab.

“Robert Katzmann, Judge and Civics Advocate, Dies at 68”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today.

“Robert Katzmann, Former Chief Judge of 2nd Circuit, Dies at 68; Katzmann, who led the court through the unparalleled COVID-19 crisis, died after battling a long illness”: Tom McParland of New York Law Journal has this report.

And Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law reports that “Robert Katzmann, Second Circuit Judge, Legal Scholar, Dies.”

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued this announcement.

Programming note: Beginning at 10 a.m. eastern time today, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to issue one or more rulings in argued cases. You can access the opinions via this link as they are posted online. A client-related matter will have me away from the computer until this afternoon, so I will post about the decisions later today.

“Lemon Doesn’t Matter; The fundamental question is whether the American law of religious liberty is worth preserving”: Andrew Koppelman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Federal court halts Missouri’s ban on abortions after 8 weeks, Down syndrome diagnosis”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

And Joe Harris of Courthouse News Service reports that “Eighth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Missouri Abortion Ban; The appeals court upheld an injunction against a law banning abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome and after eight weeks of pregnancy.”

My earlier coverage of today’s Eighth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“The Supreme Court Reins in the CFAA in Van Buren; A very important ruling”: Orin S. Kerr has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”

“Tech tycoon’s beachfront mansion sparks First Amendment debate at 11th Circuit”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Eleventh Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“U.S. Judicial Conference Urges Senate to Back Security Funding”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today.

“On Supreme Court steps, Dem senator calls right-leaning justices ‘servants’ of dark money interests; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse called out GOP-nominated justices at rally Wednesday”: Marisa Schultz of Fox News has this report.

“Request to return All-Star game to Atlanta gets court hearing Thursday”: Tim Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Kathleen Arberg Ends Long Run as US Supreme Court’s Public Voice and Face”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Perspective: Is the Supreme Court Still a Defender of Press Freedom?” Tony Mauro has this post at Freedom Forum.

“What Does Brett Kavanaugh Think of Precedent? Here’s Another Clue: Why tea-leaf readers are obsessing over a minor opinion in a case the Supreme Court decided not to take.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion, along with an essay titled “Supreme Court’s Generational Divide Seen in Computer Fraud Case; Why the court’s younger conservatives sided with the liberals on a case of prosecutorial overreach.”

“Schoolyard Justice in Federal Court; Citibank’s errant billion-dollar payment leads to a ruling that could upset commercial law”: Law professor Jonathan Macey has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Stephen Breyer’s Apparent Retirement Plan Will Backfire”: Law professor Richard L. Hasen, creator of the “Election Law Blog,” has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Florida mansion design rejection doesn’t violate First Amendment, court says; The debate brought up comparisons to such things as tattoos, elevator music and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on an interesting 136-page ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued yesterday.

“DDA’s Remarks on Innocence Presumption Doesn’t Require Issuance of Habeas Relief; Earlier Contrary Opinion Is Repudiated; Panel Bows to Court of Appeal Determination”: Metropolitan News-Enterprise has this report on a noteworthy decision on panel rehearing that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.

“These notices of appeal are entirely deficient. They appeal an order entered on a day when no order issued, from a district court that does not exist, to a court of appeals that does not exist.” So ruled a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit yesterday in dismissing two consolidated appeals for lack of jurisdiction due to identical defects in both notices of appeal.

“Federal appeals court blocks sweeping Missouri abortion law”: Jim Salter of The Associated Press has this report.

Partially divided Eighth Circuit panel affirms district court’s entry of a preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of Missouri law banning abortion at or after eight weeks gestational age or based on potential Down syndrome risk: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

“Appeals Court Denies GOP Bid to Defend North Carolina Voter ID Law; A divided en banc Fourth Circuit ruled Republican state lawmakers cannot intervene to defend the North Carolina General Assembly in a challenge to the state’s controversial voter ID law”: Erika Williams of Courthouse News Service has this report on an 9-to-6 en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued Monday.

“Owners’ Suit Over Art Seized in Switzerland Not Proper in U.S.” Bernie Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued yesterday.

“Annoyed Subway Customer Dodges Arbitration Over Sandwich Texts”: Mary Anne Pazanowski of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued yesterday.

“Senate Confirms First Biden Judges, Beginning Push to Rebalance Courts; The votes were the start of an effort by Democrats to confirm liberals and people of color to the federal courts after Donald J. Trump moved aggressively to install conservative white men”: Nicholas Fandos of The New York Times has this report.

And Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Senate confirms first Biden judicial nominees.”

“The Supreme Court Justice Who Made History By Voting No on Racial Segregation”: On today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Steve Inskeep had this interview with Peter Canellos, author of “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero.”

And online at The Christian Science Monitor, Seth Stern has a review of the book headlined “The US Supreme Court’s ‘Great Dissenter’ repudiated ‘separate but equal’; Justice John Marshall Harlan’s dissents, like the one in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, earned him a reputation as a liberal force in his day.”