“Federal appeals courts restrict public operations amid COVID surge”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.

“Why So Many Democracies Are Floundering”: Law professor Richard H. Pildes has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Interview: William Baude.” Audrey Jung has this post at the “High School SCOTUS” blog.

“Omicron Surge Prompts Seventh Circuit to Go Remote for Arguments”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has this report on an order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.

“Judge rules against Gov. Kevin Stitt over vaccine mandate for National Guard”: Chris Casteel and Nolan Clay of The Oklahoman have this report.

Andrew Jeong of The Washington Post reports that “Federal court denies Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s attempt to stop military vaccine mandate.”

And Sean Murphy of The Associated Press reports that “Judge rejects Oklahoma’s lawsuit over Guard vaccine mandate.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma at this link.

“The Supreme Court has upheld state and local vaccine mandates. That may not save Biden’s.” Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.