“Plea Negotiations in Sept. 11 Case Go on Hiatus for Ramadan; Hearings in the death penalty case are scheduled for May but could be postponed because one defendant needs a new lawyer”: Carol Rosenberg will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Real Justice: Justice Jackson.” Columnist Maureen Dowd will have this op-ed in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Reforming Qualified-Immunity Appeals”: Law professor Bryan Lammon — author of the “final decisions” blog — has posted this article at SSRN.

“The Alaska Lady, The Gray Lady, And Libel: Sarah Palin’s claim against the New York Times was reasonable, and the behavior of the trial judge, Jed Rakoff, was outrageous.” George Liebmann has this essay online at The American Conservative.

“Texts Show Ginni Thomas’s Embrace of Conspiracy Theories; In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas was involved in a range of efforts to keep President Donald J. Trump in power”: Danny Hakim, Jo Becker, and Alan Feuer of The New York Times have this report.

“Ted Cruz’s Daughters Attend a Private School That Is ‘Antiracist’; The Texas senator aggressively questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson this week for serving on the board of a school ‘overflowing with critical race theory'”: Vimal Patel has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And Benjamin Wermund and Hannah Dellinger of The Houston Chronicle have an article headlined “Do Ted Cruz’s kids go to a woke private school in Houston? Not quite, say St. John’s School alumni.”

“Justice Thomas Ruled on Election Cases. Should His Wife’s Texts Have Stopped Him? The nature of the text messages was enough to require recusal, legal experts said. But the Supreme Court has traditionally left such decisions to the discretion of the justice in question.” Adam Liptak has this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

At the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine, Ankush Khardori has a post titled “Ginni Thomas and the Conservative Rot at the Supreme Court; Her texts don’t just spur ethical and legal questions, but reflect much larger problems.”

And online at The Hill, law professor Jonathan Turley has an essay titled “Ginni Thomas’s texts: Does a spouse’s opinion disqualify a Supreme Court justice?“

“Connecticut Supreme Court says speech, in a First Amendment case, crossed the line to threats”: Edmund H. Mahony has this front page article in today’s edition of The Hartford Courant reporting on a ruling, consisting of a majority opinion and two concurring opinions (here and here), that the Supreme Court of Connecticut issued yesterday.

“In historic vote, Senate confirms Nancy Waples to Vermont Supreme Court”: Sarah Mearhoff of VTDigger has an article that begins, “The Vermont Senate made history Friday with a 27-0 vote to confirm Nancy Waples to the state Supreme Court, seating the first woman of color on the state’s highest bench.”

“Sandra Day O’Connor turns 92 as public turns to Supreme Court, abortion again”: Ronald J. Hansen has this front page article in today’s edition of The Arizona Republic.

“The Ginni Thomas Texts and the Jan. 6 Committee: A leak to the press aims to tarnish Justice Clarence Thomas.” This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Thomas scrutiny intensifies after latest revelations”: John Kruzel of The Hill has this report.

“Tears of Justice”: Professor Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut have this essay online at The Hill.