“Judiciary Renews Calls for Security Funding”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts today issued a news release that begins, “Judiciary leaders are expressing deep concern that Congress has failed to provide funding to protect federal judges and courthouses, and are urging House and Senate leaders to appropriate money to address a ‘worsening’ safety environment.”

“Tribes’ Victory in Oklahoma at Risk in Bold Request to the Supreme Court; Last year, the court ruled 5 to 4 that much of the state is an Indian reservation. Oklahoma wants a do-over, testing the court’s respect for the power of precedent”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“The Justice Scalia Mythology that Still Haunts our Politics and our Law”: Eric Segall has this post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Justice Beth Robinson — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

In Bashman news from the Bronx: NBC New York reports that “Bronx Trio Bash Man With Wrench, Beat Him Unconscious: Police; One of the suspects was allegedly armed with a wrench.”