“Asian-Americans Fight Back Against School Discrimination; From Harvard to a Virginia high school, courts take up racial preferences’ harm to this minority population”: Columnist Jason L. Riley will have this op-ed in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Fallout From Judges’ Financial Conflicts Spreads to Appeals Courts; Cases involving StarKist, Bank of America and Cisco are among those reviewed”: James V. Grimaldi, Joe Palazzolo, and Coulter Jones will have this article in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“1st Circuit Judge Sandra Lynch to Take Senior Status; Lynch was appointed to the federal appeals court by former President Bill Clinton in 1995”: Avalon Zoppo of The National Law Journal has this report.

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “1st Circuit’s first woman judge to retire from active service.”

“These Are the 3 Lawyers the Federal Circuit Chastised Last Week for Violating COVID Protocols”: Scott Graham of The National Law Journal has this report.

Last Friday’s per curiam order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit did not identify the lawyers.

“Redistricting put Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court where it doesn’t want to be: the political spotlight; Picking a new high-stakes congressional map injected the Pennsylvania Supreme Court into partisan politics; It wasn’t the first time — and probably won’t be the last.” Andrew Seidman and Jonathan Lai of The Philadelphia Inquirer have this report.

“Trump Judges Are Now a Threat to America’s National Security; The 5th Circuit let a lone judge order the deployment of unvaccinated SEALs; High-ranking officers say the decision puts the world at risk”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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

In today’s mail: I received an inscribed copy of law professor Richard L. Hasen‘s new book, “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics — and How to Cure It.”

“Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change; Members of the court’s conservative majority voiced skepticism that Congress had authorized the agency to decide what they said were major political and economic questions”: Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes has an article headlined “Supreme Court conservatives seem skeptical of EPA’s authority for broad emissions regulation.”

In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage has an article headlined “Supreme Court weighs new limits on EPA’s power to fight climate change.”

In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin and Timothy Puko have an article headlined “Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Limits of EPA’s Powers; Conservative justices cast case as one about how much leeway agencies have beyond explicit direction from Congress.”

John Fritze of USA Today reports that “Supreme Court wrestles with EPA authority to regulate carbon in major climate dispute.”

In commentary, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Biden’s Climate Agenda Gives the Supreme Court Bad Vibes; The conservative justices’ big feelings about the EPA have precious little to do with the law.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The Supreme Court appears eager to gut the EPA, but can’t figure out how to do it; Turns out incoherent legal doctrines are hard to apply.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has posted online the transcript and audio of yesterday’s oral argument in West Virginia v. EPA, No. 20-1530.

“A New Supreme Court Case Could Make the Constitution Even More Optional For Immigration Officers; Egbert v. Boule gives the conservatives another chance to chip away at existing legal safeguards for violations of your rights”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “The Supreme Court could make it very easy for federal law enforcement to violate the Constitution; What’s the remedy if a federal official violates your constitutional rights? The answer may soon be nothing.”

“C. Boyden Gray Center Adds Paul D. Clement, Steven A. Engel, and Donald F. McGahn II as Distinguished Practitioners in Residence”: The C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University issued this news release today.

“KBJ, All the Way!” You can access yesterday’s episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast — hosted by law professors Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw, and Leah Litman, joined by their guest, law professor Lisa Fairfax — via this link.

Now that this podcast has joined the Crooked Media empire, new episodes will be available via this link, and at least for now certain other locations where new episodes could be accessed appear to be no longer updating to include new episodes.