“What if You Had Abortion Pills in Your Medicine Cabinet?” Patrick Adams will have this guest essay in Thursday’s edition of The New York Times.

“2021 Supreme Court Preview”: NYU School of Law has posted this video on YouTube. The participants include law professor Melissa Murray and Joan Biskupic of CNN.

“SCOTUS changed oral arguments in part because female justices were interrupted, Sotomayor says”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“Supreme Court Seems Ready to Restore Death Sentence for Boston Marathon Bomber; The Biden administration has pursued the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in spite of its own moratorium on capital punishment”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Supreme Court seems poised to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Justices Differ on Boston Bomber’s Death Sentence; Court hears arguments about whether procedural issues at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial justified an appeal court’s setting aside his death sentence.”

John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court’s conservatives seem open to reinstating death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber.”

Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “Supreme Court weighs death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber.”

Shelley Murphy and Travis Andersen of The Boston Globe report that “Supreme Court hears arguments on reinstating the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.”

Marie Szaniszlo of The Boston Herald reports that “Supreme Court signals support to restore death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber.”

Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices seem set to revive marathon bomber’s death sentence.”

Lawrence Hurley and Nate Raymond of Reuters report that “U.S. Supreme Court justices lean toward restoring Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Justices Hint at Death Penalty Reinstatement for Marathon Bomber.”

Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court appears likely to allow death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber; The Justice Department is defending Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence, which a federal appeals court overturned last year.”

Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “Supreme Court conservatives appear ready to endorse death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.”

Tyler Olson and Bill Mears of Fox News have reports headlined “Boston bomber: Barrett asks DOJ lawyer why Biden admin wants to reinstate death sentence amid execution pause; Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked, ‘What’s the government’s end game here?’” and “Boston Bomber case: Kavanaugh, Kagan clash in rare testy exchange over mitigating evidence; Kavanaugh criticized liberal justice’s line of questioning, prompting Kagan to fire back.”

John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “Supreme Court signals willingness to reinstate marathon bomber death sentence.”

Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “Feds said mention of unsolved murders would confuse marathon bomber’s jury; Could it also save his life? The Biden administration’s appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev comes even as it strings progressive voters along on a promise to end capital punishment in the U.S.”

And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “Supreme Court heard arguments in case about Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has posted online the transcript and audio of this morning’s oral argument in United States v. Tsarnaev, No. 20-443.

“Stephen Breyer’s Supreme Delusions; His new book refuses to recognize that the court is political”: Law professors Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn have this review of Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s new book, “The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics,” online at The New Republic.

In response to that review, at his “Re’s Judicata” blog, Richard M. Re has a post titled “Should Court Reformers Attack the Idea of Law?“

The State of Mississippi today filed its Reply Brief for Petitioners in the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org. You can access the reply brief at this link. And you can access all the other briefs filed in the case via this link.

“White House commission on the Supreme Court to release draft materials Thursday”: Maegan Vazquez and Allie Malloy of CNN have this report.

“Supreme Court declines to hear Philly’s supervised injection site case; The justices turned down a petition to hear arguments that federal law was not intended to criminalize the opening of sites where people in addiction could use drugs under medical supervision”: Aubrey Whelan and Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“Katie Couric covered up RBG’s dislike for taking the knee: Anchor says she edited 2016 interview to ‘protect’ the justice after she said people who kneel are showing ‘contempt for a government that made a decent life possible.'” Daniel Bates of The Daily Mail (UK) has this report.

And Hannah Frishberg of The New York Post has an article headlined “Katie Couric: I withheld RBG’s harsh anthem-kneeling comments to ‘protect’ her.”

“Congress’s Anti-Removal Power”: Law professors Aaron L. Nielson and Christopher J. Walker have posted this article at SSRN. The article arises out of their work together on a U.S. Supreme Court-appointed amicus brief in Collins v. Yellen.

“Pennsylvania’s Appellate Courts Have Their Own Shadow Dockets”: Yesterday, this month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column appeared in The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“First Questioner: Justice Clarence Thomas has asked the first question of 10 of 11 lawyers at the lectern so far.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“Court fight over Texas abortion restriction tests limits of state laws”: Harper Neidig of The Hill has this report.

“A Brief History of Stephen Breyer Enabling Corporate Power: Over the course of his career, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has played a key role in the rise of monopoly and oligopoly across the economy.” Sandeep Vaheesan has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics; How conservative jurists only approve state restrictions over individual freedoms when it suits their purposes”: Law professor Joshua Douglas has this essay online at Washington Monthly.

“Stephen Miller Brings His Trumpist Crusade to the Courts; America First Legal, Miller’s right-wing answer to the ACLU, is suing the Biden administration over immigration and relief for Black farmers”: Erik Larson of Bloomberg Businessweek has this report.

“Supreme Court to hear arguments on reinstating the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev”: Shelley Murphy of The Boston Globe has this report on a case being argued this morning at the U.S. Supreme Court.

You can listen live, online to the oral argument audio via this link.