“If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the closest abortion clinic for those in the South and Midwest could be hundreds of miles away, report says”: Nicole Asbury of The Washington Post has this article.

“What to Know About the Mississippi Abortion Law Challenging Roe v. Wade; A case coming before the Supreme Court is seen as potentially pivotal in establishing how aggressively the justices might move to place new constraints on abortion rights”: Adeel Hassan of The New York Times has this report.

“Texas ban on 6-week abortions at brink of Supreme Court showdown; The Lone Star State has the country’s toughest restrictions on terminating pregnancy — banning abortion at a threshold by which many women would not even know they have conceived — and has free rein to enforce the law until the justices resolve a pair of challenges”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Jailed over Facebook taunts: Free-speech battle hits 1st Circuit; Thirteen states make defamation a crime, but a federal appeals panel seemed divided Thursday over whether it’s constitutional to prosecute people for saying mean things.” Thomas F. Harrison of Courthouse News Service has this report.

And Todd Bookman of New Hampshire Public Radio has a report headlined “Following the arrest of an Exeter man, ACLU asks appeals court to rule criminal defamation law unconstitutional.”

You can access via this link the audio of today’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

“Opinion ghostwritten by winning side challenged at SCOTUS”: Alison Frankel of Reuters has this report.

“Battle over qualified immunity protections continues in Massachusetts despite Supreme Court duck”: Erin Tiernan of The Boston Herald has this report.

“Elizabeth Prelogar confirmed as solicitor general ahead of Supreme Court battles over abortion, guns”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

“To Rein In Abuse by the Police, Lawmakers Must Do What the Supreme Court Will Not”: Law professors Barry Friedman and Maria Ponomarenko have this guest essay in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“Tom Cotton to AG Garland: ‘Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court’; Arkansas senator called Garland ‘shameful’ for his directive related to violence, threats and intimidation of school board officials.” Ronn Blitzer of Fox News has this report.

“High court candidate alters ad after complaint from opponent”: Mark Scolforo of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “The Republican candidate for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has revised an ad attacking his opponent after the state bar association notified him it ran afoul of its judicial campaign advertising standards.”

“New York judge’s gun permit denials trigger big Supreme Court case”: Andrew Chung of Reuters has this report.

“Supreme Court is flooded with briefs as arguments on Texas abortion law approach”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN have this report.

“Farewell to the Justices’ Barber: ‘I was a regular customer of Diego’s for the past 15 years, and I always looked forward to seeing him,’ Justice Alito said of the death of Diego D’Ambrosio.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”