“Why Are There So Few Native Federal Judges? The confirmation of Sunshine Sykes highlights how thoroughly excluded Native people have been from the federal judiciary’s ranks.” Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“An appeals court upheld a Pennsylvania law that prevents Philly from making its own gun rules; The city has tried unsuccessfully in the past to enact gun regulations such as a requirement that firearms owners notify authorities if their weapons are lost or stolen”: Sean Collins Walsh of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report on a 3-to-2 ruling that the en banc Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued today.

“Gun sales to Texas shooter would have been illegal in California — but those laws could be in jeopardy”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“Can California afford to be a haven for abortion? It can’t afford not to be.” The Los Angeles Times has published this editorial.

“Markel Trial Day 9: Defense tries stoking sympathies, Magbanua on the stand, resting its case.” Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has this report.

“Loss of trust, collegiality at Supreme Court after leak of draft opinion”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report (subscription required for full access).

“The Supreme Court Is Enabling America’s Gun Dystopia; After a long period of inaction on the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court is back to doing what it does best: making our world a more dangerous place.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“Why the Florida Supreme Court must uphold its abortion precedent, even if Roe is overturned; Florida’s constitution specifically protects the right to privacy, which the state supreme court has interpreted to include the right to an abortion”: Law professor Louis J. Virelli III has this essay online at The Tampa Bay Times.

“Solicitor general advises Supreme Court not to review C.H. Robinson case; As with AB5 case, solicitor general says appellate court got it right”: John Kingston of FreightWaves has this report.

“Whitmer to Michigan Supreme Court: ‘Time is of the essence’ on abortion lawsuit.” Dave Boucher of The Detroit Free Press has this report.

“Milwaukee County judge announces candidacy for Wisconsin Supreme Court, decries ‘radical right-wing extremists'”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

“Patent Eligibility Case Is Teed Up for Next Supreme Court Term”: Samantha Handler of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Federal judge takes rare step of backing U.S. Supreme Court ethics code”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“Supreme Court decisions on abortion, gun control and religion likely to come soon”: Nina Totenberg had this audio segment on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“How Institutions Crumble: Destroy customary norms of neutrality and hark how social discord follows.” At the “Law & Liberty” blog, John O. McGinnis has a post that begins, “There is certain poetic injustice in that the first draft opinion ever leaked from the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade.”

“Rationalizing Misogynist Religious Rules”: Sherry F. Colb has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

“Eleventh Circuit Judge Newsom in the news”: Howard Wasserman has this post at “PrawfsBlawg.”

“Americans prefer Democrats’ position on abortion to Republicans’ — Reuters/Ipsos poll”: Jason Lange of Reuters has this report.

“The next U.S. abortion battle is over pills, and it’s already begun”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report.

“Dan Markel murder: Katherine Magbanua re-trial, Day 7.” The Tallahassee Democrat is live-streaming today’s trial proceedings on YouTube via this link.

Yesterday, Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat had a report headlined “Dan Markel murder: State rests its case, wiretaps cross on Day 6 of Magbanua retrial | Recap.”