“Republicans struggle for an effective attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson; GOP senators have not agreed on a strategy for questioning the first Black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court, or even whether they have a strategy”: Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post has this report.

“Biden Supreme Court nominee Jackson praised NYT’s 1619 Project during MLK Day speech”: Jessica Chasmar of Fox News has this report.

And Alexander Bolton of The Hill reports that “Hawley says sentences in 10 child porn cases raise red flags on Supreme Court pick.”

“Citigroup will pay travel costs for employee abortions in response to the Texas law; Citigroup is the first major U.S. bank to announce a policy change in response to the legislation, which bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy”: Lananh Nguyen of The New York Times has this report.

And Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “New California bill would create a fund to aid women traveling to California for abortion care.”

“Former judiciary workers urge Congress to protect court employees from discrimination and harassment”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law reports that “Ex-Defender Says Was ‘Vilified’ When She Reported Harassment.”

And Rose Wagner of Courthouse News Service reports that “Veterans of federal judiciary urge Congress to expand worker protections; Lawmakers are considering a bill that would better protect employees of the federal judiciary, but the system is stiffly opposed to the push for reforms.”

“Due Process and Our Ever-Expanding ‘Fundamental Rights’; Courts have no authority to discover ‘fundamental rights’ not already recognized by the law of the land”: Angus McClellan has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

“Conservative judge urges U.S. judiciary to not hire Yale protesters as clerks”: Nate Raymond and Karen Sloan of Reuters have this report.

And Christine Charnosky of Law.com reports that “Federal Appeals Judge Suggests Yale Law Protesters ‘Should Be Disqualified for Potential Clerkships’; Last week, a group of Yale Law students protested an on-campus Federalist Society event featuring conservative speaker Kristen Waggoner; Now, a federal judge has suggested to colleagues that the protesters should be identified and potentially disqualified from federal clerkships.”

My earlier commentary about this news appeared on Twitter here and here.

“Why Are Judges Above the Laws They Enforce? Judicial branch employees have little recourse against judges who harass them in the workplace. Congress can change that.” Aliza Shatzman has this post at Balls and Strikes.

And online at Slate, she has a jurisprudence essay titled “As a Clerk, I Couldn’t Sue the Judge Who Harassed Me.”

“A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of ‘Foreign Tribunal'”: Law professor James Cleith Phillips and professor Jesse Egbert have posted this paper at SSRN.

“Republicans Push Crackdown on Crime Wave That Doesn’t Exist: Voter Fraud; Election fraud is exceedingly rare and often accidental; Still, G.O.P. lawmakers and prosecutors are promoting tough new enforcement efforts.” Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti of The New York Times have this report.

“The Question Juror No. 50 in Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Should Never Have Been Asked”: Tali Farhadian Weinstein has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“‘Nothing but net’: A son’s personal reflections on the passing of ‘a lion of the law.'” Hampton Dellinger has this post at “The Pulse” blog of NC Policy Watch.

“Sentencing-Commission Years Prepped Jackson for High-Court Job”: Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Is Free Speech In American Law Schools A Lost Cause? Recent controversies at UC Hastings and Yale Law — Yale, shocking, I know — don’t provide much reason for hope.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Clarence Thomas Is a Cancel Culture Guy Now; Clarence and Ginni Thomas have done more to undermine the Supreme Court’s credibility than anything they name as a threat to it”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Harvard ties scrutinized over affirmative action case; Judge Jackson’s membership on Harvard board prompts calls for recusal”: Devin Dwyer and Trish Turner of ABC News have this report.

“Following the Beat of the Court: The Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak on his path to The Times, how he approaches covering the court and his daily routine.” Katie Van Syckle of The New York Times has this Times Insider interview with Adam Liptak.

“Judges Tell Congress That Workplace Conduct Strategy Should Continue”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has issued this news release today.

The House Judiciary Committee hearing on this subject is now underway and can be viewed live on YouTube via this link.

“The Pandemic Brought New Levels of Transparency to the Supreme Court. Why End It? Real-time audio broadcasts of oral arguments have been a tremendous boon to our civic life and should be made permanent.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“U.S. Supreme Court nominee Jackson a tough sell on racial-bias claims”: Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley of Reuters have this report.

“Is Justice Kagan Done With Stare Decisis?” Richard M. Re has this post at his “Re’s Judicata” blog.

“Law clerk details pregnancy discrimination claim after federal judge fired her 10 days before her baby was born”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report.

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Congress to hear from woman suing over judiciary’s harassment policies.”

At 10 a.m. eastern time today, the House Judiciary Committee‘s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet will hold a hearing titled “Workplace Protections for Federal Judiciary Employees: Flaws in the Current System and the Need for Statutory Change.”

The hearing will be live-streamed on YouTube via this link.