“Grassley says Republicans won’t repeal Affordable Care Act if they retake Senate”: Felicia Sonmez of The Washington Post has this report.

“Despite public support, Colorado Supreme Court justices privately objected to judicial reform bill; Chief justice personally lobbied lawmaker to delay bill to revamp state’s judicial discipline process”: Shelly Bradbury of The Denver Post has this report.

“The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Problem Is Getting Worse In a Hurry; As it turns out, the Court’s definition of ’emergency’ is just ‘anything the conservative justices don’t like'”: Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Lamont nominates judges to CT Supreme Court, Appellate Court and 11 more Superior Court judges”: Edmund H. Mahony of The Hartford Courant has this report.

And Mark Pazniokas of The Connecticut Mirror reports that “Lamont names Joan Alexander to Supreme Court, Hope Seeley to Appellate.”

Today. the Office of Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont issued a news release titled “Governor Lamont Nominates Judge Joan Alexander to Supreme Court, Judge Hope Seeley to Appellate Court, and 11 Jurists to Superior Court.”

“Now nothing will stop the Supreme Court from overturning Roe v. Wade”: Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“The Supreme Court may be setting the stage for the mother of all culture clashes”: Columnist Jennifer Rubin has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“Roberts Has Lost Control of the Supreme Court”: Law professor Stephen I. Vladeck has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“We Know Who the Real Judicial Extremist Is, and It Isn’t Ketanji Brown Jackson; Justice Jackson is well within the judicial and political mainstream; It’s Mitch McConnell, with his ruthless tactics, who is the extremist”: Maya Wiley has this essay online at The New Republic.

“President Biden Names Sixteenth Round of Judicial Nominees”: The White House issued this news release today, which includes nominees to the Seventh and Ninth Circuits.

“Religious Freedom in Prisons and the Military”: Law professor Michael C. Dorf has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

And at his “Dorf on Law” blog, he has a related post titled “An Unfulfilled Promise of Religious Exceptions.”

“Thomas Focus May Sink Democrats’ Supreme Court Ethics Push”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has this report.