“Tennessee lawmakers confirm AG’s office lawyer to high court”: Jonathan Mattise of The Associated Press has this report.

And the Administrative Office of the Tennessee Courts issued a news release titled “Campbell Confirmed As Tennessee Supreme Court Justice.”

“Court strikes down federal law making it a crime to encourage undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

“Rights groups urge Biden to repudiate racist U.S. Supreme Court rulings”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Biden Predicts His Supreme Court Nominee Will Get Republican Support; The president has said that he wants the advice and consent of the Senate as he deliberates, despite the reality that his nominee may draw few votes from the other side of the aisle”: Katie Rogers of The New York Times has this report.

And Maegan Vazquez and Sam Fossum of CNN report that “Biden says he has done ‘deep dive’ on 4 possible Supreme Court candidates.”

“Ketanji Brown Jackson’s background is unusual for a Supreme Court nominee. It involves Miami.” Jay Weaver of The Miami Herald has this report.

“The 5th Circuit Just Rewarded a Brazen Heist of President Power”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Fifth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.

“The Times is allowed to publish Project Veritas documents until a full appeal; A state appeals court said that a judge’s order preventing publication of the documents would not be enforced until a formal appeal could be heard”: Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times has this report.

You can access yesterday’s order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, at this link.

“Three judicial nominees make it through blue-slip debacle and out of committee; Republican frustrations over the disappearance of the blue slip for circuit court nominations did not torpedo the chances of Biden’s Sixth Circuit pick and two prospective district judges”: Rose Wagner of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Taylor Swift, BBQ and Wordle: 10 questions for Paul Weiss’ Kannon Shanmugam.” Caitlin Tremblay of Reuters has this.

“Biden seeking professional diversity in his judicial picks”: Colleen Long of The Associated Press has this report.

“Reversal Rates Imperfect Tool for Judging Supreme Court Nominees”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson and Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law have this report.

“U.S. Sens. Ossoff, Warnock embrace opportunity to diversify Supreme Court”: Tia Mitchell of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Biden’s SCOTUS Pledge Is a Model of How Affirmative Action Should Work; The president is showing how to correct historic exclusion — and why the Supreme Court should be part of the solution”: Law professor Sheryll Cashin has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Black female lawmakers warn against pitting Supreme Court candidates against each other; At the forefront of their minds: Making sure the eventual nominee is not tainted by Democratic infighting ahead of expected GOP attacks on her qualifications and judicial philosophy.” Marianna Sotomayor of The Washington Post has this report.

“Georgia Senate votes to put statue of Clarence Thomas on Capitol grounds”: Maya T. Prabhu of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has this report.

“Georgetown lecturer Ilya Shapiro hopes Supreme Court tweet controversy helps ‘broken’ political discourse; Public debate is clearly broken in the United States, Shapiro says”: David Rutz of Fox News has this report.

“Justice Sotomayor Sees ‘Crisis’ as Judicial Philosophies Become ‘Slogans’ for Political Platforms; ‘As norms in the nomination process are broken, as more senators, local politicians and media question the legitimacy of the court, many of them heap scorn on the court,’ the justice said”: Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal has this report.

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law reports that “Sotomayor Warns Confirmation Battles Risk Undermining Courts.”

And Jimmy Hoover of Law360 has a report headlined “Sotomayor: Judging And Politics Now ‘Tightly Interwoven.’“

“Supreme Court justices insist all is well, but their caustic written opinions say otherwise”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.