“Federal Judges Would Face Tougher Stock-Trading Rules Under Bipartisan Bill; House hearings set; planned actions follow Wall Street Journal reports on financial conflicts in the judiciary”: James V. Grimaldi, Coulter Jones, and Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Remembering the Great Dissenter; John Marshall Harlan became the nation’s prime defender of the rights of African Americans in the nineteenth century”: At the “Law & Liberty” blog, Glenn Reynolds has this review of Peter S. Canellos’s new book, “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero.”

“Convicted W.Va. Justice Loughry asks U.S. Supreme Court about social media and juror bias”: Brad McElhinny of West Virginia’s MetroNews has this report.

You can access the petition for writ of certiorari filed last week in the U.S. Supreme Court at this link.

“Trump’s judges will call the shots for years to come. The judicial system is broken. In just one term, Trump was able to appoint 33% of US supreme court justices and 30% of US appellate judges. They’ll serve for life.” Former U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin has this essay online at The Guardian (UK).

“Supreme Court Vow Not to Be ‘Hacks’ Tested by Tribal Case Appeal”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Supreme speed: The court puts abortion on the rocket docket.” Mary Ziegler has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“We’re not supposed to like the Supreme Court”: Abigail Rabieh has this essay online at The Daily Princetonian.

“Supreme Myths: Episode 42 (feat. Dahlia Lithwick).” Georgia State University — College of Law has posted on YouTube via this link the video of the new installment of law professor Eric J. Segall‘s “Supreme Myths” podcast.

“Why SCOTUS Didn’t Treat SB8 Like a Capital Case”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“When a Witness Recants: At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder; They’ve all lived with the consequences.” Jennifer Gonnerman has this Annals of Justice article in the November 1, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.