“Linda Greenhouse”: Is the guest on the current episode of the “Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast” with law professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher.

“Conservatives Are Using the Anti-Choice Playbook to Attack Affirmative Action, Too; A six-justice conservative supermajority allows the Court to tear down decades of precedent that protects vulnerable people without even pretending to replace it”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“The Supreme Court’s ‘Dead Hand’: The 6–3 majority-conservative Supreme Court is dangerously out of step with a demographically and culturally changing America.” Ronald Brownstein has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Interview with Wyoming’s newest Supreme Court Justice”: Ryan Collins of Oil City News has this Q&A.

“The Supreme Court Is Just Doing What the Supreme Court Does”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

“The Supreme Court Seems to Think Discrimination Is When You Try to Remedy Discrimination; The conservative justices are scrapping Americans’ constitutional rights, all while pretending they aren’t”: Adam Serwer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“Potential pick Ketanji Brown Jackson would make history as first federal public defender on Supreme Court”: Ann E. Marimow and Aaron C. Davis of The Washington Post have this report.

“Biden faces conflicting pressures as he closes in on a Supreme Court nominee; The first Black federal judge in Alabama, U.W. Clemon, urged the president not to go with appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in a letter obtained by NBC”: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Kristen Welker, Kelly O’Donnell, and Sahil Kapur of NBC News have this report.

“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.

“U.S. appeals court will not block order barring Biden federal staff vaccine mandate”: David Shepardson of Reuters has this report on a decision that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today.

“5th Circuit Judge Gregg Costa to Return to Private Practice, Saying He’s ‘Better Suited to Being an Advocate’; Judge Gregg Costa is resigning from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in August”: Avalon Zoppo has this report online at Texas Lawyer.

According to the article, “The 49-year-old jurist said he plans to return to private practice with a broad focus on civil and criminal work at the trial court level.”

“A Product of Public Universities, Michelle Childs Would Be an Unconventional Court Pick; The judge is seen by some as a long shot for the Supreme Court, but supporters say her bipartisan backing and the appeal of her humble ascent should not be overlooked”: Erica L. Green and Rick Rojas of The New York Times have this report.

“The Supreme Court Is Even More Conservative Than You Think: Long before the 6–3 court hands down rulings, the cases it chooses to hear have a tidal effect on the nation’s ideological drift.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“The Biden Appointee Who Could Change the Constitution: How hard is it to amend the Constitution? Even harder than you think.” Russell Berman of The Atlantic has this report.

“Intolerant Lawyers Shouldn’t Be Judges: Law school deans, faculty and students who stifle opposing views are unfit ever to sit on the bench.” Law professor Philip Hamburger will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Every Supreme Court Nominee Deserves Firm Opposition; The Republicans’ informal plan to avoid a battle over the president’s choice would deprive them of the chance to debate the justices’ proper role”: Ramesh Ponnuru recently had this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“The Amazing Vanishing Bill of Rights: The Constitution’s first ten amendments are supposed to protect criminal defendants from the government; The Supreme Court has ensured that they barely protect anybody from anything.” Zeke Webster has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Clarence and Ginni Thomas, the Supreme Court’s Unethical ‘It’ Couple: How the Thomases have been able to get away with their decades long abuse of influence.” Elie Mystal has this essay online at The Nation.