“5th Circ. Lets Texas Abortion Restrictions Stay In Effect”: Katie Buehler of Law360 has this report (subscription required for access) on a per curiam decision that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued yesterday.

“Worse Than Texas: S.B. 8 will eventually be defeated but not the six conservatives on the Supreme Court.” Jay Michaelson has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“Not one vigilante lawsuit yet, but new Texas law has cut abortion to a trickle and kept courts busy; Justice Department effort to block SB 8 is one of many legal skirmishes as law deters clinics and shuts out pregnant women”: Todd J. Gillman has this front page article in today’s edition of The Dallas Morning News.

And online at The New Republic, Jason Linkins has a post titled “Why Would Corporate America Save Reproductive Rights? Major U.S. companies apparently don’t see Texas’s abortion ban as an economic threat.”

“Why a deadly 1894 railroad strike may be key to DOJ’s Texas abortion law challenge”: Alison Frankel has this essay online at Reuters.

“Moussaoui case judge says terror trials should be held in U.S. courts; U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema and others are critical of the military’s failure to try 9/11 defendants after 20 years”: Tom Jackman has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“How to mess with Texas’ anti-abortion bounty? Apply it to gun sales.” Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz has this essay online at The Hill.

“Vaccine Resisters Seek Religious Exemptions. But What Counts as Religious? Major denominations are essentially unanimous in their support of the vaccines against Covid-19, but individuals who object are citing their personal faith for support.” Ruth Graham of The New York Times has this report.

“Biden Tests Limits of Presidential Power in Pushing Vaccinations; White House officials said the president was ‘committed to pulling every lever possible’ in the fight against the pandemic”: Michael D. Shear and Noam Scheiber have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In commentary, online at The New York Times, Robby Soave has a guest essay titled “Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Is a Big Mistake.”

And online at The Washington Post, columnist Henry Olsen has an essay titled “Biden’s covid vaccine mandates are unconstitutional — and unnecessary.”