“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett returns to ND Law to teach intensive course on statutory interpretation”: Denise Wager of the Notre Dame Law School has this report.

“Mexico’s Supreme Court rules right to life from conception is unconstitutional”: Cassandra Garrison of Reuters has a report that begins, “Mexico’s supreme court ruled on Thursday that the protection of ‘life from conception’ was unconstitutional, doubling down on its decision earlier this week that abortion was not a crime.”

“Will Justice Thomas clam up again when the Supreme Court goes back to in-person arguments? Thomas asking questions at oral arguments is one part of pandemic that many liked.” Tyler Olson of Fox News has this report.

“A Modest Proposal: Extend Ex Parte Young to Cover the Likes of Texas Bounty Hunters”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Abortion Brush-Off Contrasts With Supreme Court’s Move in Church Case”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“StarKist, amici push standing arguments to en banc 9th Circ. in class cert challenge”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.

“McCarthy Takes House Proxy Voting Fight to Supreme Court”: Billy House of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Highly Paid Rig Worker Eligible for OT, Full Fifth Circuit Says”: Rob Tricchinelli of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a 12-to-6 en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today.

“The Pitfalls of Justice Breyer’s Rambling Consequentialism: The justice does not consider at all how jurisprudence bears on the political appearance of the Supreme Court.” At the “Law & Liberty” blog, John O. McGinnis has this review of Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s newest book, “The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics.”

“Inside Missouri’s ‘2nd Amendment Sanctuary’ Fight: A new law puts Missouri at the vanguard of states challenging federal authority on guns; It began as a backlash, and it has set off another.” Glenn Thrush will have this article in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Merrick Garland’s Texas Two-Step; The AG files a lawsuit as dubious as the abortion law he wants to stop”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Texas’ Abortion Law Should Force America to Change Its Ways”: Karen Swallow Prior has this essay online at The New York Times.

“God Has No Place in Supreme Court Opinions”: Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The New York Times.

“Justice Breyer Says Supreme Court Upholding Texas Abortion Ban Was ‘Very, Very Wrong'”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

And online at NPR, Totenberg has a report headlined “Progressives Want Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire. His Response? Not Yet.”

NPR has posted on YouTube here and here two video clips from the interview.

“Portlandia vs. Texas; Welcome back to life under the Articles of Confederation”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Biden Administration Sues Texas Over Its Abortion Law; Lawsuit targets state law limiting procedure to first six weeks of pregnancy”: Sadie Gurman and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

The New York Times has posted online a copy of the complaint initiating suit at this link.

“Federal appeals court says Indiana can keep enforcing abortion laws”: Johnny Magdaleno of The Indianapolis Star has this report on a per curiam order that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.