“As Democrats Seethed, White House Struggled to Contain Eviction Fallout; The president was surprised by the reaction to the White House’s decision to ask Congress to extend an eviction ban, leading to a 36-hour scramble to keep people in their homes”: Michael D. Shear, Glenn Thrush, Charlie Savage, and Alan Rappeport will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

Is your BigLaw firm pro-death penalty or anti-death penalty? The law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP has a reputation of supporting liberal causes, and its firm History webpage touts that “[t]he firm and its lawyers participated in efforts . . . to resist the death penalty by defending scores condemned to die and obtaining a historic victory in the U.S. Supreme Court forbidding execution of the mentally disabled.”

Perhaps that’s why some on Twitter have noted with surprise that Paul Weiss’s #SCOTUS superstar advocate (who frequently represents criminal defendants at the Court) is serving as counsel of record for the State of Oklahoma on its just-filed cert. petition seeking to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court‘s recent decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, in a case in which that outcome would result in the re-imposition of a death sentence on the defendant in question (and presumably the re-imposition or retention of numerous other death sentences).

“Judicial Notice (08.07.21): ‘Discernibly Turgid’; A landmark Second Circuit nomination, an S&C partner turned GC, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Supreme Court decision could set off gerrymandering ‘arms race'”: John Kruzel of The Hill has this report.

“US Senate Confirms Longtime Public Defender Eunice Lee to 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals; Lee will be the second Black woman and the first former federal defender to sit on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals; Ex-prosecutors weighed in on behalf of her nomination to the court”: Jane Wester of New York Law Journal has this report.

This evening, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eunice C. Lee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a vote of 50-to-47, with three Republican Senators not voting.

“Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet The October Term 2021 Clerk Class; Which law schools and feeder judges produced the most OT 2021 clerks?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Antiabortion activists at Supreme Court cite an unlikely authority for overturning Roe v. Wade: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.