“Biden’s Judicial Nominees: Turnabout Is Fair Play; And a judge’s questionable effort to handpick her successor.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“Republicans can blame themselves for not claiming first Black female justice”: Vanessa Williams has this essay online at The Washington Post.

“A Judge Retires. Just How Political Is That Decision?” Eric Reinhart and Daniel L. Chen have this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Louisiana plans Supreme Court plea over social cost of carbon”: Pamela King of E&E News PM has this report.

“A new Supreme Court case makes George W. Bush look like a racial justice crusader; Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board is a testament to just how much Republicans have radicalized on race”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs Mississippi-style abortion ban into law”: James Call of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report.

“9th Circuit judge urges Cortez Masto, Rosen to back AG’s wife as replacement”: Jacob Solis of The Nevada Independent has this interesting report.

“With Jackson Headed to Supreme Court, New Judicial Battles Loom; Democrats aim to fill as many court vacancies as possible by the end of 2022, when Senate Republicans are in reach of winning control and slamming the brakes on President Biden’s picks”: Carl Hulse will have this new installment of his “On Washington” column in Friday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Ohio Supreme Court rejects 4th set of legislative maps”: Jessie Balmert and Laura A. Bischoff of The Cincinnati Enquirer have this report.

You can access today’s ruling of the Supreme Court of Ohio at this link.

“Ketanji Brown Jackson and Stephen Breyer Are Friends, But They Pronounce ‘Amicus’ Differently; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers said ‘Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off’ when they disagreed on how to pronounce ‘tomato’; But Justice Breyer and Justice-to-be Jackson will surely stay friends, even though they say the Latin word for friend differently”: Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.”

“Colleagues worry Dianne Feinstein is now mentally unfit to serve, citing recent interactions”: Tal Kopan and Joe Garofoli have this front page article in today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.

“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.

“Why Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Be the Last Democratic Justice for a Long Time; The Court is getting more partisan and much harder to change”: Jonathan Chait has this post at the “Intelligencer” blog of New York magazine.

“House G.O.P., Banding Together, Kills Bid to Honor Pioneering Black Judge; A right-wing congressman persuaded fellow Republicans to abruptly turn against a routine measure to name a federal courthouse in Florida for a Black State Supreme Court justice”: Annie Karni of The New York Times has this report.

“Maine Senate confirms Rick Lawrence to the state’s highest court; Lawrence will be the first Black justice to sit on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court”: Emily Allen of The Portland Press Herald has this report.

“Amy Wax repeats racist rhetoric on national television amid ongoing University investigation”: Jared Mitovich of The Daily Pennsylvanian has this report.

And Susan Snyder of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “Penn law professor Amy Wax makes more inflammatory comments on national TV.”

Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton on nationwide injunctions — “The sooner they are confined to discrete settings or eliminated root and branch the better.” In a concurring opinion issued today in Arizona v. Biden.

Sutton also wrote an order on behalf of the unanimous three-judge panel granting a stay of an Ohio federal district court’s nationwide injunction precluding the enforcement of the Secretary of Homeland Security’s memorandum outlining the Department’s immigration enforcement priorities and policies.

“Justice Breyer reflects on career, impact during UVa award ceremony”: Tyler Hammel of The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Virginia has this report.

And Mary Wood of the University of Virginia School of Law has a report headlined “American Experiment Launched by Jefferson Continues, Says Justice Breyer.”

The University of Virginia School of Law has posted online a video titled “A Conversation with Justice Breyer.”

“The Shakespeare docket: Breyer hears argument on tricks, trysts, and defamation.” Ellena Erskine has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”

“2nd Comparative Constitutional Law Conversation: Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Breyer.” Society For Democratic Rights has posted this video on YouTube.

“Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs near-total abortion ban that will take effect in August”: Carmen Forman of The Oklahoman has this report.

And Barbara Hoberock of The Tulsa World has an article headlined “Gov. Stitt signs near-total abortion ban: ‘We want Oklahoma to be the most pro-life state.’“

“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.