“Biden, Harris pressure on Supreme Court ahead of abortion decision seen as part of a trend”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report (subscription required for full access).

“Supreme Court Limits Inmates’ Challenges Based on Bad Legal Help; Splitting 6 to 3, the justices ruled that federal courts may not hold evidentiary hearings in suits from state prisoners claiming ineffective assistance of counsel”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

And Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “High court restricts federal intervention in ineffective-counsel cases; Conservatives make it harder for federal courts to hear such claims from state convictions, prompting stinging dissent.”

“A Conservative Lawyer’s New Target After Abortion: Affirmative Action; Jonathan F. Mitchell, who helped draft Texas’ six-week abortion ban, has turned his attention to Harvard’s race-conscious admissions program.” Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

“Florida could become a ‘haven state’ for those seeking abortions if Roe v. Wade falls; A new law banning abortion after 15 weeks will be more lenient than those in other states; Planned Parenthood expects a surge in out-of-state cases this summer”: Jane Musgrave of The Palm Beach Post has this report.

“Alito, Syphilis, and Unwanted Pregnancy”: Sherry F. Colb has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”

In commentary available online at The Hill: Juan Williams has an essay titled “The Supreme Court is on the brink of disaster.”

Law professor Andrew Koppelman has an essay titled “Akhil Amar and the Dobbs draft.”

And professor Glenn C. Altschuler has an essay titled “Justice Alito’s alternate abortion ‘facts.’“

“11th Circuit blocks major provisions of Florida’s social media law; The 11th Circuit Court on Monday ruled it is unconstitutional for Florida to bar social media companies from banning politicians, in a victory for the tech industry”: Cat Zakrzewski of The Washington Post has this report.

And Jennifer Kay of Bloomberg News reports that “Florida Social Media Law Is Partially Blocked After Federal Appeal.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at this link.

“Judicial Notice (05.21.22): 2400 Hours; What a Biglaw firm expects from its partners, a female judge who almost never hires women as clerks, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

“How the Right to Birth Control Could Be Undone”: Law professor Melissa Murray has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“With State Abortion Restrictions Looming, Some Officials Promise Not to Enforce Them; Pledges against enforcement could create patchwork of approaches in more-conservative states”: Laura Kusisto has this article in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.

And in Smith v. Shinn, No. 21-1268, Justice Stephen G. Breyer issued an opinion respecting the denial ofcertiorari.

Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in two argued cases.

1. Justice Elena Kagan delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court in Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., No. 21-328. You can access the oral argument via this link.

2. And Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez, No. 20-1009. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

“A Consequential Gun Ruling After the Buffalo Massacre; The racist killings showed the horror of firearms; the Supreme Court may be about to make the problem worse”: Amy Davidson Sorkin has this Comment in the May 30, 2022 issue of The New Yorker.

“Dan Markel murder: Katherine Magbanua retrial (Day 4 – May 23).” The Tallahassee Democrat is live-streaming today’s trial proceedings on YouTube via this link.

“Reversing Roe Will Make American Democracy Harder to Fix; The problem isn’t the division of powers between judges and legislators; It’s that US politics detests compromise”: Clive Crook has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

“Jim Obergefell prepares for another fight”: Sophia Cai of Axios has a report that begins, “Jim Obergefell, whose lawsuit led to the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, says he feels a new urgency and clarity about his role in the LBGTQ community since a leaked Supreme Court draft decision previewed the end of Roe v. Wade.”

“Why tribal lands are unlikely to become abortion sanctuaries”: Harmeet Kaur of CNN has this report.

“Florida’s firewall against abortion restrictions is in peril; The current Florida Supreme Court is dominated by conservatives, including three appointed by DeSantis”: Gary Fineout of Politico has this report.

“The last abortion clinic in Mississippi only employs out-of-state doctors. Two are from Massachusetts.” Hanna Krueger of The Boston Globe has this report.

“Effort to grant Oklahoma governor more power over state Supreme Court nominations ends”: Ben Felder of The Oklahoman has this report.

“Here’s who Gov. Cox could pick to be the next Utah Supreme Court justice; Justice Thomas Lee is stepping down after a dozen years on the Utah Supreme Court”: Bryan Schott of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

“‘Necessary evil’: Credibility at core as Luis Rivera connects dots in Dan Markel murder.” Karl Etters of The Tallahassee Democrat has this report (subscription required for access), along with an item headlined “Dan Markel murder: Rivera, inconsistencies, cell phone trail in retrial spotlight on Day 3.”

And Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has a report headlined “Markel Trial Day 5: State lights fuses; a Latin King breaks code; Corbitt spills data; Wendi takes a weird route.”

“Justice Department to appeal decision blocking Biden admin from ending Title 42; A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said that the CDC has the authority to end Title 42”: Adam Sabes of Fox News has this report.

“Days before Oklahoma bans abortion, details still uncertain”: Sean Murphy and John Hanna of The Associated Press have this report.

“Supreme Court could rule on Roe v. Wade on Monday, as Biden admin braces for violence after decision; The Biden admin is preparing for nationwide violence after the Supreme Court issues a decision on Roe v. Wade”: Kelly Laco of Fox News has this report.

“Buffalo, Laguna Woods and the Supreme Court’s radical revision of U.S. history”: Columnist Jackie Calmes has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

And online at Slate, professor Saul Cornell has a jurisprudence essay titled “The Horror in New York Shows the Madness of the Supreme Court’s Looming Gun Decision.”

“Rabner exhorts governor, legislature to address Supreme Court vacancies; In State of the Judiciary address, chief justice says four-member court should be avoided”: Joey Fox of the New Jersey Globe has this report.

“Conservatives fume over tech industry’s ‘shadow docket’ play; The tech platforms’ conservative foes were caught flat-footed by the companies’ rush to the Supreme Court seeking emergency relief from Texas’ social media law”: Brendan Bordelon of Politico has a report that begins, “Progressives outraged over the use of the Supreme Court’s emergency ‘shadow docket’ to resolve legal fights over issues like abortion and immigration got some company this week from an unexpected group — conservative skeptics of the tech industry.”

“Clarence Thomas Is Throwing the Supreme Court’s History Out the Window; The conservative legal icon has a lot of disagreements with the Supreme Court’s decisions and is showing no hesitation in pushing to erase long-standing precedents”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

“The Biggest Mystery of the SCOTUS Leak Isn’t ‘Who Did It?'” Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“The Supreme Court Needs an Ethics Code; Without the formal adoption of ethical standards, the Court may begin to seem more like a political body than a guardian of the rule of law”: Law professor Bob Bauer has this essay online at The Atlantic.

“The Roe v. Wade ‘Aberration’ and America’s Civic Crisis; Judge Douglas Ginsburg was Reagan’s second choice after Robert Bork’s nomination failed; He says criticism of Justice Alito’s draft opinion reflects constitutional ignorance”: Tunku Varadarajan will have this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Primed to overrule Roe, Supreme Court leaves public opinion behind; The justices have made decisions out of sync with the majority of Americans before but never to take away rights instead of expanding them”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

“Supreme Court Abortion Leak Was a ‘Cowardly’ Act, Retired Justice Says; Kennedy says courts should recommit to judicial independence; Draft opinion overturning abortion rights leaked early in May”: Kimberly Robinson and Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg News have this report.

My earlier coverage of retired Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s remarks can be accessed here.

“Congress might have inadvertently legalized a form of cannabis under Trump”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.