“Man pleads not guilty to trying to kill Justice Kavanaugh”: Michael Kunzelman of The Associated Press has this report.

And Jan Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Man Charged With Attempting to Assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh Pleads Not Guilty; Nicholas Roske could face potential life sentence if found guilty; trial set for August.”

“One man’s outsized role in shaping the Supreme Court”: This audio profile of Leonard Leo appeared on yesterday evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

“Judge Doris Pryor — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”

“(When) Will SCOTUS Hold that the Establishment Clause Violates the Free Exercise Clause?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.”

“Is the Religious Liberty Tent Big Enough to Include the Religious Commitments of Jews?” Dahlia Lithwick and law professor Micah Schwartzman have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

“A new Supreme Court decision has ominous implications for LGBTQ discrimination; On the surface, Marietta Memorial Hospital v. DaVita is a Medicare case with little to say about LGBTQ rights; Dig deeper, however, and it is quite troubling”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“Ground-Breaking Articles on Equity in the Federal Courts; The new federal courts issue of the Notre Dame Law Review”: Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” You can access the articles via this link.

“Shoop, the Collateral-Order Doctrine & Transportation Orders; A footnote in Shoop v. Twyford expanded the list of orders immediately appealable via the collateral-order doctrine to include ‘[t]ransportation orders issued under the All Writs Act’; In doing so, the Court invited more mischief involving the collateral-order doctrine”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

“GOP Senators target Ohio judge candidate Rachel Bloomekatz’s views on guns and youthful offenders at confirmation hearing”: Sabrina Eaton of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “GOP senators question Biden appellate court pick on gun rights.”

And Rose Wagner of Courthouse News Service reports that “Gun control work by 6th Circuit pick draws GOP shelling; Rachel Bloomekatz faced Republican criticism for litigating cases alongside the gun control organization Everytown for Gun Safety.”

You can view via this link the video of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for judicial nominees.

“Arkansas Times loses challenge of state’s Israel boycott law”: Max Brantley of Arkansas Times has this report on an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued today.

“Contempt conviction upheld for lawyer who won $9.5 bln Chevron judgment”: Jonathan Stempel of Reuters has this report on a ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

“Why It’s Possible For Some Americans To Support Abortion Yet Oppose Roe”: Natalie Jackson has this post at FiveThirtyEight.

“John Roberts played the long game on state funding of religious schools”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.