“Judge Gabriel Sanchez — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“Biden Panel Wary of Expanding Supreme Court, but Open to Term Limits; Preliminary draft materials suggested that adding justices might be seen as a ‘partisan maneuver,’ but said that an 18-year tenure merits ‘serious consideration'”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Texas abortion ban remains in effect after appeals court rules against Justice Department”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

You can access this evening’s per curiam order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Supreme Court would add justices under proposal from Biden commission”: Alex Swoyer and Jeff Mordock of The Washington Times have this report.

“Katie Couric’s self-defeating effort to ‘protect’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg; And the many self-defeating efforts that came along with it”: Aaron Blake has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Sleeper SCOTUS Case That Threatens the Separation of Church and State; Carson v. Makin could set a new precedent for how taxpayer dollars are used to fund religious education”: Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Abortion providers ask Oklahoma Supreme Court to put three laws on hold”: Barbara Hoberock of The Tulsa World has this report.

“A full guide to Pennsylvania’s 2021 Supreme Court election and other appellate judicial races”: Danielle Ohl of Spotlight PA has this report.

“Warren, Jayapal Ask Supreme Court to Get Tougher on Judges’ Conflicts of Interest”: Daniela Sirtori-Cortina of Bloomberg News has this report.

“Commission on Changing Supreme Court Skeptical About Adding Justices; Preliminary documents released on eve of public meeting assess merits of term limits for justices, limiting number of justices any president can name”: Ken Thomas of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

“Biden’s Supreme Court commission ‘divided’ on adding justices but warns of ‘considerable’ risk”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.

“In deciding Tsarnaev’s fate, the Supreme Court could condemn the 8th Amendment too; No matter how repugnant the actor, constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment shouldn’t be compromised; This case shows there aren’t enough guardrails to protect it”: Columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

“State AGs push for lodestar fee in $310 mln Apple class appeal — despite their own contingency deals”: Alison Frankel of Reuters has this news analysis.

“White House commission on Supreme Court reforms sees risks in expanding court”: Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters have this report.

“Texas abortion law supporters say states can reach own conclusions about constitutionality; An appeals court could rule on the Justice Department’s challenge of Texas’ abortion ban in the next several days”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.

Update: NBC News has corrected the headline of this article, which originally had incorrectly attributed the argument to the State of Texas itself.

“Conversation with D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao, Hosted by Jennifer Mascott”: The C. Boyden Gray Center has posted this video online at Vimeo.

“Justice Alito complains, but the evidence is clear: This Supreme Court was built by dark money; Alito wants us to believe everything is going great at the Supreme Court; And so it is — for big Republican donors.” U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) has this essay online at Salon.

“Texas women drive hours for abortions after new law”: Sean Murphy of The Associated Press has this report.

Carter Sherman of Vice News has a report headlined “Here’s What It’s Like to Flee Texas and Drive 200 Miles for an Abortion; After being turned away from a Texas clinic, a 26-year-old mother went to Oklahoma for an abortion; We went with her.”

Caroline Kitchener of The Lilly has an article headlined “Abortion care is a ‘calling’ for this Texas doctor; Now he faces a dilemma: Risk lawsuits, or quit; Joe Nelson is weighing his options as courts weigh in on the nation’s strictest abortion ban.”

Natasha Lennard of The Intercept has an essay titled “What Else Biden Can — and Should — Do to Fight the Texas Abortion Ban; The judicial back-and-forth on the abortion law shows why the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Texas won’t be enough.”

And at The Daily Kos, Rebekah Sager reports that “Gov. Abbott stung by activist, caught on camera bragging about outlawing abortion in Texas.”

“The legal mind behind America’s most extreme abortion law; Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan F Mitchell’s ‘dangerous’ legal strategy lets legislators pass laws that thwart the judiciary”: Mary Tuma of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

“Texas urges appeals court to keep abortion ban in place as legal challenges play out”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. You can access Texas’s reply at this link.

“Pennsylvania Supreme Court Announces Plans to Commemorate 300th Anniversary of the Court”: The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued this news release yesterday. Additional information about two forthcoming events scheduled for May 2022 can be accessed here.

“Sotomayor Laments Lack of Professional Diversity on High Court”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Stephen Breyer says now isn’t the time to lose faith in the Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“A Surprise Amicus Brief in the Challenge to New York’s Gun Carry Ban; Former Judge Luttig’s arguments are off base”: Stephen Halbrook has this guest post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” along with related guest posts titled “New York’s Futile Search for Historical Precedents for its Handgun Carry Restrictions; The Massachusetts Model was not a carry ban and required aggressive behavior before it applied” and “Does a Medieval English Statute Supersede the Second Amendment? New York takes a long shot at saving its firearm carry ban.”

“Korematsu as the Tribute that Vice Pays to Virtue”: Law professor Jack M. Balkin has posted this essay at SSRN.

The essay responds to law professor Mark R. Killenbeck‘s article, also available at SSRN, titled “Sober Second Thought? Korematsu Reconsidered.”

“A Justice for All Seasons: Is Clarence Thomas the greatest originalist justice in the Court’s history?” John O. McGinnis and Mike Rappaport have this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.