“The Deep Irony of Stephen Breyer’s Bare-Knuckled Exit From the Supreme Court”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
Also online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Stephen Breyer Couldn’t Meet the Moment; The justice’s futile quest for compromise rendered him an ineffectual leader of the liberal bloc.”
And Jeremy Stahl has a jurisprudence essay titled “Biden’s Very Short SCOTUS List Has a Very Obvious Front-Runner.”
“How Republicans Can Block Stephen Breyer’s Replacement”: Philip Elliott of Time magazine has this report.
Update: Since I posted this, the article has been significantly revised, and its headline has been changed to “Biden, Senate Democrats Can Replace Justice Stephen Breyer on Party Lines.”
“Students’ challenge to IU vaccine mandate dismissed after lone plaintiff with standing withdraws from school”: Olivia Covington of The Indiana Lawyer has this report on a per curiam ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.
“Court upholds strip clubs’ exclusion from pandemic relief program”: Daniel Wiessner of Reuters has this report.
And Joe Kelly of Courthouse News Service reports that “Seventh Circuit blocks pandemic relief money for strip clubs; The appeals panel found the government did not violate strip clubs’ free speech rights by declining to support them with limited subsidies.”
You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.
“How Biden will choose the next Supreme Court nominee”: Tom Goldstein has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
“Liberal Breyer is taking no chances in the timing of his departure”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
“A look at Justice Stephen Breyer’s time on the Supreme Court — and what comes next”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
“When Raffi Melkonian started #AppellateTwitter, he didn’t know it would become a strong community”: Lyle Moran will have this “Legal Rebels” profile in the February 2022 issue of ABA Journal magazine.
“Will The Senate Confirm Biden’s Supreme Court Pick? Democrats Have Been Most United On Judges So Far. Senate Democrats may not unanimously agree on much, but they’ve shown they can rally behind Biden’s judicial nominees time and time again.” Paul McLeod of BuzzFeed News has this report.
“Breyer’s act of listening will pave the way to a healthier democracy”: Neal Katyal has this essay online at The Washington Post.
“Stephen Breyer, Shamed By Your Tweets, Will Retire From Supreme Court; The 83-year-old justice is expected to step down at the end of the Court’s current term”: Jay Willis has this post at Balls & Strikes.
“Stephen Breyer, pragmatic liberal, will retire at end of term”: Amy Howe has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
“A shortlist of potential nominees to replace Breyer on the Supreme Court”: Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed of CNN have this report.
“Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from Supreme Court, paving way for Biden appointment; The liberal justice’s decision to retire after more than 27 years on the court allows President Joe Biden to appoint a successor who could serve for several decades”: Pete Williams of NBC News has this report.
“Would You Like To Own A Book From Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Library? Here’s your chance — but you better be prepared to pay up….” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
“A Federal Judge’s Satirical Opinion Highlights Disrespect for the Second Amendment; After more than a decade of subversion, the Supreme Court has a chance to rectify this situation”: Jacob Sullum has this post online at Reason.
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor Shares Why She Loves Writing for Children”: The NBC program “Late Night with Seth Meyers” has posted this video on YouTube.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was a guest on last night’s episode, promoting her newest children’s picture book, “Just Help! How to Build a Better World.”
“Biden’s first-year judicial appointments—process”: Russell Wheeler has this post — the first of a three-part series analyzing President Biden’s first year of judicial appointments — at the “FixGov” blog of the Brookings Institution.
“Libertarianism as Constitutional Interpretation”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“The rise of certiorari before judgment”: Steve Vladeck has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
“Against Precedent: In making a constitutional interpretation, the courts must treat previous interpretations as indicators of the law, not the law itself.” Bruce P. Frohnen has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
