“U.S. Supreme Court Advocates Hesitant to Force Change on Justices”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report on a letter and accompanying report that the Supreme Court Practitioners’ Committee submitted Friday in advance of tomorrow’s public meeting of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.

“If History Proves Anything, It’s That We Don’t Know How Long Stephen Breyer Will Serve”: Law professor William M. Treanor has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“Indiana University Can Require Covid-19 Vaccines, Federal Judge Says; Ruling deals setback to growing legal effort against compulsory inoculation at public educational institutions”: Jacob Gershman will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

And Carley Lanich of The South Bend Tribune reports that “Federal judge sides with Indiana University; COVID vaccine mandate stands, for now.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana at this link.

“Biden Legal Team Decides Inmates Must Return to Prison After Covid Emergency; When the pandemic ends, thousands in home confinement will be recalled unless Congress acts or Biden issues mass commutations”: Charlie Savage and Zolan Kanno-Youngs will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Merrick Garland Needs to Show He Knows What Jan. 6 Was Really About”: Donald Ayer, Danielle Brian, and Norman Eisen have this essay online at The New York Times.

“High school football coach takes prayer case to Supreme Court”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

And Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Washington high school football coach to take appeal over prayer to Supreme Court.”

You can access today’s order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denying rehearing en banc, and the opinions concurring therein and dissenting therefrom, at this link.

“Confirmed: Cunningham Will Be Federal Circuit’s First Black Judge; A 63-33 vote to confirm Perkins Coie partner also brings gender parity to the D.C.-based appellate court; It’s ‘phenomenal news’ for lawyers seeking more diversity on the federal appellate bench and the patent bar.” Scott Graham has this report online at The National Law Journal.

This evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tiffany P. Cunningham to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by a vote of 63-to-33.

Update: In other coverage, Jack Rodgers of Courthouse News Service reports that “Tiffany Cunningham Confirmed by Senate as First Black Federal Circuit Judge; Tiffany Cunningham will be the first African American seated on the patent-focused Federal Circuit.”

“Telephone Pole Cameras and Long-Term Government Surveillance”: Matthew Tokson has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Does Biden intend to curtail the Supreme Court’s powers?” Columnist Nicholas Goldberg has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Reaffirm, don’t reverse, landmark Supreme Court libel decisions”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

“Texas Tries to Upend the Legal System With Its Abortion Law”: Law professors Laurence H. Tribe and Stephen I. Vladeck have this essay online at The New York Times.