“Is the Supreme Court ready to upend the power of state courts in disputes over federal elections?” Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

And Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service reports that “State legislatures want to control the results of elections and they’re asking the Supreme Court to help them; The justices could tip the scales for legislatures grasping for more partisan control over elections.”

“Trump and right-wing lawyer were part of ‘criminal conspiracy’ to overturn 2020 election, January 6 committee alleges”: Katelyn Polantz of CNN has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s ‘Major Question’: The Justices have an ideal chance to better define this doctrine on regulatory power.” This editorial will appear in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Judge Says Sarah Palin ‘Failed to Prove Her Case’ Against The Times; In a written opinion explaining his decision to dismiss Ms. Palin’s defamation case, Judge Jed S. Rakoff also stated his faith in the integrity of the jury”: Jeremy W. Peters has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. You can access the opinion at this link.

“GOP criticizes Biden judicial nominee’s defense of death row inmate”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has a report that begins, “A public defender nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on a federal appeals court was criticized by Senate Republicans on Wednesday for helping successfully overturn a death row inmate’s sentence, calling her a ‘zealot’ for fighting capital punishment.”‘

And Rose Wagner of Courthouse News Service reports that “Surge of public defenders heading to federal bench drives wedge at Senate; Republicans on the Judiciary Committee held up a nominee’s past work as a public defender to say she is unfit to join the Third Circuit.”

You can view via this link the video of today’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for judicial nominees.

“California law students shout down Georgetown scholar, viral video shows; UC Hastings says, ‘The act of silencing a speaker is fundamentally contrary to the values of this school'”: Jessica Chasmar of Fox News has this report.

And Nate Hochman of National Review reports that “Full Video Shows Law Students Heckling, Shouting Down Ilya Shapiro for 45 Minutes.”

“Why Ketanji Brown Jackson would be such an upgrade over Breyer”: Columnist Perry Bacon Jr. has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Ghislaine Maxwell Juror May Be Made to Testify About His Conduct; The juror, whose failure to disclose his past abuse has clouded the guilty verdict against Ms. Maxwell, would be granted immunity from prosecution”: Benjamin Weiser of The New York Times has this report.

“Is Viability Dicta?” Christopher Mills, Blake Davis, and Richard Osborne have posted this article at SSRN.

“Senators, it’s time to add some 305 to the U.S. Supreme Court”: David Oscar Markus has this essay online at The Miami Herald.

“The Supreme Court’s Looming Attack on Journalism In America; For more than five decades, New York Times v. Sullivan has protected journalists reporting on the rich and powerful; This Court might soon have the chance to change that”: Adam Cohen has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Who’s Afraid of Ketanji Brown Jackson?” Sherrilyn A. Ifill has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Senate hearings for high court nominee to begin on March 21”: Mary Clare Jalonick of The Associated Press has this report.

Laura Litvan of Bloomberg News has a report headlined “Who to Watch as Supreme Court Pick Jackson Meets With Senators.”

Jordain Carney of The Hill reports that “Schumer wants to confirm Biden’s Supreme Court pick by April break.”

And Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux of FiveThirtyEight has a report headlined “How Racism And Sexism Could Define Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Confirmation Hearings.”

“College disability rights case could go to Supreme Court — a possibility advocates fear”: Colleen Shalby of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

“Dylann Roof takes church shooting appeal to US Supreme Court”: Meg Kinnard of The Associated Press has this report.

“How a new Supreme Court case endangers the New Deal, the Great Society, and Obamacare: The Court’s Republican supermajority will hear a case about the Commerce Clause; God help us.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Republicans ask U.S. Supreme Court to curb state courts’ election oversight role”: Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley of Reuters have this news analysis.

“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is headed to a runoff against George P. Bush; The two-term incumbent, beset by a criminal indictment and FBI probe, will face Bush, the state’s land commissioner and scion of a political dynasty, in the May 24 runoff”: James Barragán and Kate McGee of The Texas Tribune have this report.

In June 2021, Eva Guzman resigned her seat on the Supreme Court of Texas to run as a Republican candidate for Attorney General of Texas. She placed third in yesterday’s primary, failing to qualify for the run-off election.

“Ten Observations About Adrian Vermeule’s Book ‘Common Good Constitutionalism'”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”