“Supreme Court Allows Court-Imposed Voting Maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania; State courts had ruled that earlier maps for congressional elections had been warped by partisan gerrymandering; Democrats stand to benefit from the justices’ decision”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

In commentary, online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Supreme Court Just Came Perilously Close to Blowing Up Federal Elections.”

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “A grand Supreme Court showdown over gerrymandering ends in a whimper; Republicans face a significant, but temporary, defeat in the Supreme Court.”

You can access here and here today’s orders of the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Pentagon heads to Supreme Court to stop deployment of unvaccinated Navy SEALs; The government claims a lower court seriously overstepped its bounds by intruding into core military affairs”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report on an application for partial stay that the federal government filed today in the U.S. Supreme Court.

“U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear bid to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction; The high court’s decision not to take up the case effectively ends a nearly two-decade legal saga for the 84-year-old comedian that briefly saw him incarcerated for a 2004 crime”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“[W]hat happens if a state court grants the preliminary injunction, and a defendant then removes the case to federal court? Does the right to an early appeal of an injunction order cover the state court’s order too?” A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit answers that question “no” in an opinion issued today.

“Conservative Judges Have Mastered the Art of Running Out the Clock; With six conservative justices willing to sit on their hands and do nothing, lower court judges know they can get away with basically anything”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Appellate Law Podcasts That Are Worth a Listen: Not surprisingly, appellate law and practice, and the U.S. Supreme Court in particular, are the subject of a burgeoning number of podcasts.” This month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column will appear in tomorrow’s print edition of The Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

“Lawmakers may change how Kansas Supreme Court justices are picked as redistricting case looms”: Andrew Bahl of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report.

“Amy Coney Barrett Was a ‘Supermom.’ So Is Ketanji Brown Jackson.” Law professor Melissa Murray has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“States Aren’t Waiting for the Supreme Court to Tighten Abortion Laws; In anticipation of the court’s decision, a frenzy of legislative activity to shut down access to abortion forms a picture of a post-Roe America”: Kate Zernike of The New York Times has this report.

“For decades, Connecticut had two seats on prestigious U.S. Appellate Court. Here’s how the state got a third.” Edmund H. Mahony has this front page article in today’s edition of The Hartford Courant.

Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Elena Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court in Wooden v. United States, No. 20-5279. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh issued concurring opinions. Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued an opinion, in which Justice Clarence Thomas joined, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. And Justice Neil M. Gorsuch issued an opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor joined in various respects, concurring in the judgment. You can access the oral argument via this link.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases but called for the views of the Solicitor General in one case.

And in Doe v. Facebook, Inc., No. 21-459, Justice Clarence Thomas issued an opinion respecting the denial of certiorari.

“Their Time Served, Sex Offenders Are Kept in Prison in ‘Cruel Catch-22’; New York prisons will not release people convicted of some sex offenses until they find housing far from schools; But that is hard to do, especially from behind bars”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.