“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.”

“Here’s how Ketanji Brown Jackson should prepare to join the U.S. Supreme Court”: George Liebmann has this essay online at The Baltimore Sun.

“A Bad Precedent on the High Court: Confirming a nominee before there is an actual vacancy risks the possibility of presidents creating slates of justices-in-waiting.” Daniel Huff has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

“Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack tests positive for COVID-19”: Lauren Wethington of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

“How Ginni Thomas jockeyed for influence in Trump’s orbit”: Marshall Cohen, Pamela Brown, and Gabby Orr of CNN have this report.

“A refuge for Texas patients, Oklahoma clinics brace for abortion ban; A law modeled after the restrictive Texas ban could soon take effect in Oklahoma”: Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post has this report.

“The Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings May Be Only the Beginning; The final Senate confirmation vote of 53–47 sparked joy and relief that the ugly part was over, at least for Jackson; The rest of the country may not be so lucky”: Amy Davidson Sorkin will have this Comment in the April 18, 2022 issue of The New Yorker.

“Anita Hill Saw History Repeat Itself at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Hearings; The key witness in Clarence Thomas’s nomination process joins David Remnick and Jane Mayer to discuss how sex and race shaped the new Justice’s experience, and her own”: The New Yorker has posted online this Q&A.

“Thomas Poses With Senate Candidate Walker in Supreme Court Photo; It comes amid scrutiny stemming from wife’s political work; Walker was in Washington to receive Horatio Alger Award”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

“The Red State-Blue State Scramble to Replace Roe“: Rebecca Traister has this article in the April 11, 2022 issue of New York magazine.

“Idaho Supreme Court Halts 6-Week Abortion Ban Based on Texas’ Law; The court says Idaho’s law cannot go into effect this month as scheduled while it reviews legal challenges; The ban prohibits abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected”: Vimal Patel has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

And Nicole Blanchard of The Idaho Statesman reports that “Idaho Supreme Court puts restrictive abortion law on hold amid Planned Parenthood lawsuit.”

You can access yesterday’s order of the Supreme Court of Idaho at this link.

“Jackson, after a tough confirmation, celebrates at White House; The incoming justice becomes emotional as she speaks of what her elevation means to history”: Cleve R. Wootson Jr. of The Washington Post has this report.

And Katie Rogers of The New York Times has an article headlined “‘We’ve Made It’: Jackson Celebrates Supreme Court Confirmation; The confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has changed the course of American life, the president said.”

“Biden Could Face Tougher Court Fights After Jackson; White House marks confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, but potential loss of Senate could sink future judicial picks”: Ken Thomas and Siobhan Hughes of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

“These younger justices will likely be the face of the Supreme Court in the upcoming decades”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

“The Supreme Court question Republicans won’t answer; They could have a Senate majority in 2023; But they won’t say, definitively, how they would treat another Joe Biden Supreme Court nominee”: Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine of Politico have this report.

“Biden secures his first Supreme Court justice. Will it be his last? Republican leaders are refusing to commit to allowing a vote on Biden’s pick for a potential vacancy if they win control of the Senate this fall.” Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report.

In recent posts of interest at the “High School SCOTUS” blog: Audrey Jung has a post titled “Interview: Daniel Epps.”

And Elise Spenner has a post titled “Interview: Jay Willis.”

“John Roberts Isn’t Going to Do the Democrats’ Work For Them; The Supreme Court has proven itself incapable of policing the Supreme Court; Congress has to act”: Elie Mystal has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Biden Turns to Lower Court Backlog After Jackson Confirmation”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “President Joe Biden comes off the victory of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court with a backlog of lower court vacancies that don’t have a pending nominee, including 19 circuit court seats.”

“A federal appeals court upholds Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers”: Alyssa Lukpat and Adeel Hassan of The New York Times have this report.

Laurel Calkins of Bloomberg News reports that “Federal Workers Face Jab-or-Job Choice Anew Under Vaccine Ruling.”

Caroline Vakil and Brad Dress of The Hill report that “Federal appeals court upholds Biden vaccine mandate for federal workers.”

And Cameron Langford of Courthouse News Service reports that “Fifth Circuit lifts injunction against Biden administration’s federal employee vaccine mandate; The jab objectors lack standing, the Fifth Circuit held, because the Civil Service Reform Act bars them from filing suit in a federal district court.”

You can access yesterday’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

“Big Law’s Big Hypocrites: Why are self-styled progressive lawyers working for Jeffrey Epstein’s friend, Leon Black?” Ankush Khardori has this article online at New York magazine.

“Colleges Should Pay Heed to Oberlin’s Costly Libel Case; Universities have to be extremely careful about how they interact with student causes if they want to avoid being held liable for protesters’ words and actions”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Question Averted: Can the Vice President Break a Tie Vote on Appointments?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Politics of Black Hair”: Nicole Lewis has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The paradox of Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Supreme Court is more diverse than it has ever been, and more hostile to political equality than any Court since the 1950s.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Ketanji Brown Jackson and a marathon of hope: The first Black woman on the Supreme Court doesn’t change everything; But her ascent reminds us what is possible.” In today’s edition of The Washington Post, senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan has this essay.

“Finally, a Black woman has a place on the Supreme Court bench”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.