“Morongo, 3 other tribes ask U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Indian Child Welfare Act”: Joe Nelson of The San Bernardino Sun has this report.

And today’s new installment of season two of the “This Land” podcast, focusing on the fight against the Indian Child Welfare Act, is titled “Pro Bono.”

“Law School Clinic Hopes to Notch Another Supreme Court Win With Cockfighting Petition; The Antonin Scalia Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic and Consovoy McCarthy hope the justices will take up their unusual commerce clause challenge to the criminalization of cockfighting”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will speak at Notre Dame this week. Here’s how to attend.” Carley Lanich of The South Bend Tribune has this report.

“Private eye denied license over Facebook posts asks Supreme Court to find Maine violated his freedom of speech”: Judy Harrison of The Bangor Daily News has this report.

“Biden judicial picks win Senate backing at pace not seen since Nixon”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“‘Decisive moment’: Abortion rights groups appeal to Supreme Court to uphold Roe amid Texas ban fallout.” John Fritze of USA Today has this report on the Brief for Respondents filed in the U.S. Supreme Court today in the case titled Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org.

In other coverage, Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “Supreme Court Urged to Reject Mississippi’s Attack on Roe v. Wade; In a new brief in a major abortion case, a clinic and a doctor asked the court to strike down a state law largely banning the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.”

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Mississippi abortion law would open door to extensive bans, providers tell Supreme Court.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “Advocates see ‘chaos’ if U.S. Supreme Court guts abortion rights.”

And Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Abortion Providers Warn of ‘Chaos’ If Supreme Court Rejects Roe v. Wade.”

“Justice Stephen Breyer says judges on the Supreme Court ‘better be there for everybody'”: Washington Post Live posted this video online today.

“Justices say Supreme Court split by philosophical — not partisan — differences, but timing works against them”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

“Court backs Planned Parenthood bid to block it from some lawsuits under the new Texas abortion law; Pro-abortion rights groups attain another small, temporary victory by preventing the state’s most organized likely litigator from filing legal action under new abortion restrictions”: Morgan O’Hanlon of The Dallas Morning News has this report.

And Jessica Schneider and Ariane de Vogue of CNN report that “Texas judge issues injunction against anti-abortion group on enforcing new law.”

You can access today’s temporary injunction of the Travis County, Texas District Court at this link.

“The Originalist Case for an Abortion Middle Ground”: Law professor Aaron Tang has posted this article at SSRN.

“Would Overruling Roe v. Wade Retroactively Reanimate ‘Zombie’ Abortion Laws?” Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

“Supreme Stalemates (featuring Judge Don Willett)”: The Case Western Reserve University School of Law has posted the video of this year’s installment of the Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture on YouTube at this link.

In the September 20, 2021 issue of The New Yorker: In the Talk of the Town section, Amy Davidson Sorkin has a Comment headlined “The Forever Trial at Guantánamo: President Biden moved to end the war in Afghanistan, but the proceedings against the remaining war-on-terror detainees, including the 9/11 suspects, drag on.”

Jelani Cobb has an Annals of Equality article headlined “The Man Behind Critical Race Theory: As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.”

And Margaret Talbot has a Books essay headlined “How the Real Jane Roe Shaped the Abortion Wars; The all-too-human plaintiff of Roe v. Wade captured the messy contradictions hidden by a polarizing debate.”

“The Supreme Court Vaccine Case: Jacobson v. Mass.: Explained.” Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Feels Partisan Push to Retire; The 83-year-old justice, part of a shrunken liberal minority at a possibly brief moment of Democratic control, says his decision on the matter will take in many considerations”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Justice Amy Coney Barrett argues US Supreme Court isn’t ‘a bunch of partisan hacks'”: Mary Ramsey of The Courier Journal of Louisville, Kentucky has this report.

Piper Hudspeth Blackburn of The Associated Press reports that “Barrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court.”

And Jess Clark of Louisville NPR affiliate WFPL reports that “Justice Barrett Challenges Partisanship Accusations, Blasts Media In Louisville Talk.”