“Dan Markel murder: Magbanua defense team asking for another stay with trial just weeks away.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has an article that begins, “On the eve of the start of two days of court hearings to hammer out which evidence should be allowed in the murder trial of Katherine Magbanua, her attorneys are asking for the case to be continued so a key audio recording can be analyzed.”

“Georgetown Suspends Lecturer Who Criticized Vow to Put Black Woman on Court; Ilya Shapiro has apologized after tweeting that President Biden was poised to nominate not ‘the objectively best pick,’ but a ‘lesser Black woman’ to the Supreme Court”: Neil Vigdor of The New York Times has this report.

“From big cases to a new vacancy, Supreme Court faces a high-stakes 2022; The high court is gearing up for a politically explosive year with a series of blockbuster cases that have the power to reshape American life”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report.

“Colorado judicial discipline commission subpoenas Supreme Court over lack of access to evidence in scandal investigation”: David Migoya of The Gazette of Colorado Springs has this report.

“The 3 Republicans to watch as Biden picks his SCOTUS nominee; This trio has backed the president’s judicial picks so far at a comparable rate to the centrist Democrats who most often backed Donald Trump’s picks”: Marianne LeVine of Politico has this report.

“Sherrilyn Ifill should be Biden’s Supreme Court pick; here’s why”: The Baltimore Sun has published this editorial.

“Faculty Letter in Support of Ilya Shapiro, January 31, 2022”: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted this letter, signed by many recognizable names, online.

“Incoming Georgetown Law official placed on administrative leave for tweets about Supreme Court pick; School officials will investigate whether Ilya Shapiro’s tweets breached policy”: Lauren Lumpkin of The Washington Post has this report.

“Biden’s critics are clueless about his pledge to put a Black woman on the Supreme Court”: Columnist Jennifer Rubin has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Critics say Ginni Thomas’s activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide if that’s true.” Michael Kranish of The Washington Post has this report.

“Biden’s Promise to Pick a Black Woman Justice Is Good, Actually; Meaningful change requires more than occasional platitudes about the importance of ‘diversity'”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Conservative Justices Versus Legal Text, the Constitution, and Public Health: When they struck down the Biden OSHA rule for COVID-19, the high court’s conservatives ignored their own principles and put the rest of us at risk.” Law professor Peter M. Shane has this essay online at Washington Monthly.

“Justice Breyer’s Legacy In Numbers”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Balancing and Deference: A Reflection on Justice Breyer.” Michael C. Dorf has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Mensch On The Bench”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast, in which law professors Risa Goluboff and Tejas Narechania join the podcast’s hosts, law professors Kate Shaw, Melissa Murray, and Leah Litman, via this link.

“Senate GOP faces uncharted waters in Supreme Court fight”: Jordain Carney of The Hill has this report.

“On Decency and Double Standards at Georgetown: Do apologies mean anything anymore? Consider the case of Ilya Shapiro.” Bari Weiss has this post at her “Common Sense” Substack site.

“With Breyer’s Exit, a Farewell to Marshmallow Guns and Tomato Children; Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who said last week that he planned to retire, enlivened Supreme Court arguments with questions that could confuse and amuse”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.