“A politicized Supreme Court? That was the point.” Law professor Steven Lubet has this essay online at The Hill.

“Fight over Pa. school mask mandate gets a day in court”: David Wenner of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

“Solid majority believes Supreme Court rulings based more on politics than law”: John Kruzel of The Hill has this report.

“Appeals court tosses order aimed at protecting immigration detainees from COVID-19”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report on a 109-page ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“The Supreme Court floats a startling expansion to police immunity from the law; A new opinion suggests that ‘qualified immunity’ could become something much closer to absolute immunity from lawsuits”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“En banc 4th Circuit will review skirts-only dress code for charter school girls”: Alison Frankel of Reuters has this report on an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued yesterday.

You can access at this link the now-vacated ruling in this case of the original partially divided three-judge panel.

“John Eastman Is Not a Victim of Cancel Culture; Trying to overthrow a democratic election is categorically different from holding an unpopular opinion”: Jeremy B. Rosen has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“The Supreme Court’s Conservative Revolution Is Already Happening; The conservative justices’ fight over how fast — and far — to move the court to the right”: Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Laura Bronner of FiveThirtyEight have this report.

“Federal court deals another blow to Maine workers challenging vaccine mandate; The U.S. Supreme Court could still weigh in”: Megan Gray of The Portland Press Herald has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued yesterday evening.

“Supreme Court just doubled down on flawed qualified immunity rule. Why that matters. Police don’t know the law, and SCOTUS sticks to bizarre rule that there must be nearly identical facts to recover for constitutional violations.” Law professor Joanna Schwartz has this essay online at USA Today.

“Equity in United States v. Texas”: Samuel Bray has begun a series of posts on this subject at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” Thus far, you can access parts one and two.