“The Texas Anti-Choice Law Already Did What Its Architects Wanted; The justices appear likely to let a challenge to Texas SB8 to proceed; But by hollowing out the right to abortion care, the law’s architects have achieved what they set out to accomplish”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“The Supreme Court isn’t buying the Texas abortion law. Let’s hope they block it.” The Los Angeles Times has published this editorial.

“Prominent Conservatives Back Letting States Limit Guns in Public; A brief filed in a major gun control case to be heard on Wednesday by the Supreme Court argued that limits on the public carrying of weapons were consistent with the Second Amendment”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

“Abortion Distortion at the Supreme Court: Will the Justices blow up a crucial and longtime limit on judicial power?” This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Federal Judge Files Recusal Notices in 138 Cases After WSJ Queries; Rodney Gilstrap initially argued he didn’t violate financial-conflicts law”: Coulter Jones, Joe Palazzolo, and James V. Grimaldi of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“Another 1973 abortion ruling — ‘Doe,’ not ‘Roe’ — is at the heart of next month’s Supreme Court Case”: George W. Liebmann has this essay online at The Baltimore Sun.

“Some Geniuses”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast, with law professors Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw, via this link.

And today’s new installment of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast, with David French and Sarah Isgur, is titled “Supreme Court Hears Texas Abortion Law Arguments.”

“Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch calls in sick, tests negative for Covid”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s second thoughts about Texas’s antiabortion law”: Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

And online at Newsweek, law professor Josh Blackman has an essay titled “In Texas Abortion Case, Kavanaugh and Barrett Caved to Judicial Supremacy.”

“When Dissent Is All There Is: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s career offers a lesson for today’s Supreme Court.” Linda Greenhouse has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“If the Supreme Court Claims Power Over Gun Carry Laws, It Would Be Making a Grave Mistake”: Former Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig and Richard D. Bernstein have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Supreme Court looks to medieval England in gun rights case”: David G. Savage has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.