“Texas’s Anti-Abortion Law Won’t Be the Last Bid to Create a Constitution-Free Zone; The structure of SB8 is a familiar one, torn from the playbook of Texas’s longstanding efforts to deprive citizens it disfavors of another foundational right: the right to vote.” Orion de Nevers has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Supreme Court skeptical of FBI’s claim in monitoring of Orange County Muslims”: David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

Adam Liptak of The New York Times reports that “Supreme Court Weighs Case Against F.B.I. for Spying on Muslims; The justices considered whether the state secrets doctrine required dismissal on national security grounds of a case claiming religious discrimination.”

Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Supreme Court Hears FBI Claim of State Secrets in Muslim Surveillance Case; FBI sent a bodybuilder into mosque to look for would-be terrorists; they turned him in to the FBI.”

And John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court may turn back a challenge to FBI surveillance of Muslims.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has posted online the transcript and audio of today’s oral argument in FBI v. Fazaga, No. 20-828.

“Is the Supreme Court on Its Way to Becoming a Conservative Bastion?” Online at The New York Times, law professor Noah Feldman has this review of Linda Greenhouse’s new book, “Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court.”

“Does the Supreme Court React to Congressional Preferences?” Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.