“When Civil Immunity Becomes Impunity: City and county agencies and officials — including prosecutors — enjoy a near-absolute shield from civil suits.” Alexa L. Gervasi and Daryl James have this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, has decades-long history in Texas politics”: Jeremy Wallace of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

“Inside a legal doctrine that could derail Biden climate regs”: Pamela King of Greenwire has this report.

And last Thursday, King had an article headlined “Thomas’ Monsanto years offer window into justice’s enviro roots” about a recent Harvard Environmental Law Review article titled “The Justice from Monsanto: The Environmental Life and Law of Clarence Thomas.”

“This Supreme Court battle was a Republican self-defeat”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“More McGirt Fallout: The Case of the White Supremacist Choctaw; Which criminals, precisely, get to use the Supreme Court escape hatch?” This editorial will appear in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“The New Clerks in Town”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.

“Fractured access to abortion sets a backdrop for upcoming Supreme Court ruling”: This audio segment appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.”

“Stung by redistricting rulings, Republicans target state court elections”: Joseph Ax and Jarrett Renshaw of Reuters have this report.

“Where will abortion still be legal after Roe v. Wade is overruled? The Supreme Court is probably going to overrule Roe v. Wade this June. Here’s what happens next.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Supreme Court Conservatives Try to Outrun Public Backlash; The new majority is essentially deciding cases while they are still before the lower courts, and that doesn’t sit well with Chief Justice John Roberts”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Needs Four New Colleagues Right Now; To build a judiciary and a democracy that work for everyone, expanding the Supreme Court is the only realistic long-term solution”: U.S. Representative Mondaire Jones (D-NY) has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Recency Bias and the Supreme Court as a Broken Institution”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

In the April 18, 2022 issue of The New Yorker: Elizabeth Kolbert has an American Chronicles article headlined “A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself; Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development; A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal rights.”

And Louis Menand has a Books essay titled “The People Who Decide What Becomes History: However fastidious they may be about facts, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science.”