“U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hear a case on a Florida health coach giving dietary advice”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on a petition for writ of certiorari that the Institute for Justice filed Thursday in the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Who Judges The Judges? A Story of A Thirty-Year Grudge.” Ken White has this post at his Substack site, “The Popehat Report.”

“Supreme Court rejects GOP proposal to elect regional justices”: Sam Wilson of The Helena (Mont.) Independent Record has an article that begins, “The Montana Supreme Court on Friday upheld a district court ruling that struck down an attempt by Republicans in the Legislature to change the way the high court’s justices are elected.”

And Shaylee Ragar of Montana Public Radio reports that “State Supreme Court rules against electing justices by district.”

You can access today’s 5-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Montana at this link.

In reaction to the ruling, the Montana Department of Justice issued a news release titled “Montana Supreme Court Votes To Protect Their Own Jobs, Deprive Montanans Of Right To Decide Election Methods.”

“Abortion will become illegal in Idaho as Supreme Court declines to pause trigger law”: Nicole Blanchard of The Idaho Statesman has this report.

And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “Idaho top court allows near-total abortion ban to take effect.”

You can access today’s 3-to-2 ruling of the Supreme Court of Idaho at this link.

“State Supreme Court denies appeal in hotly contested abortion case, keeping ban in place”: Sam Karlin of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.

“Robin Vos fires Michael Gableman, ending a 2020 election review that’s cost taxpayers more than $1 million and produced no evidence of fraud”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

And Mitchell Schmidt of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “Speaker Robin Vos fires Michael Gableman, marking end to 2020 election review.”

“The Abortion Elections All Across America: The stakes are highest in states where the legislature and the governor’s mansion are held by different parties; How much will abortion rights motivate voters?” Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.

“Threats to Trump search-warrant judge prompt renewed push for security bill”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“‘The Greatest Talker of His Time’: Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint; Is it time for a reappraisal?” In the September 2022 issue of The Altantic, law professor Justin Driver has this review of law professor Brad Snyder‘s new book, “Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment.”

“News media groups want the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that weakened the open records law”: Bruce Vielmetti of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.

“Speech by Justice Alito made news for a joke — but it’s raising alarm for a different reason”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

“A Legacy of Equal Justice; Justice Clarence Thomas has had many important influences, but he will always be his grandfather’s son”: At the “Law & Liberty” blog, Jesse Russell has this post reviewing the book “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” by Michael Pack and Mark Paoletta.

“Judicial group launches ads claiming Democrats endanger Supreme Court justices”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Gavin Newsom Taunts Texas With Assault Weapons Law; California mimics the Lone Star State’s abortion law to sue weapons businesses”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Joe Kennedy hasn’t returned to coaching since Supreme Court upheld his 50-yard line prayers”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.

“Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joins National Constitution Center board as co-chair; As co-chair, Breyer joins Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has served in that position since 2019; The two are collaborating amid a historic low in public confidence in the Supreme Court”: Nick Vadala of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

“AG’s office asks permission from Utah Supreme Court to appeal hold on abortion trigger law; Utah’s trigger law has been blocked since Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit three days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade”: Emily Anderson Stern of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

“Alito’s Call to Arms to Secure Religious Liberty”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

“Newsom nominates state Supreme Court’s first Latina justice to take over as chief”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.

Kevin Rector of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Gov. Newsom nominates Justice Patricia Guerrero as California’s next chief justice.”

And Andrew Sheeler of The Sacramento Bee reports that “Newsom names first Latina to serve as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.”

Today, the Office of California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a news release titled “Governor Newsom Announces Historic Supreme Court Nominations.”

“Abortion Laws Demand Fair Enforcement; Indiana’s Todd Rokita baselessly attacks the physician who treated an Ohio 10-year-old”: Retired Seventh Circuit Judge John Tinder and former U.S. Representative Susan Brooks (R-IN) will have this op-ed in Thursday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

“Ninth Circuit unlikely to release covert footage from abortion industry conferences; An anti-abortion activist wants an appellate court to lift an injunction blocking the release of over 500 hours of surreptitious footage of abortion industry conferences that a jury found activists had illegally obtained”: Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service has this report on an oral argument that a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard yesterday.

The Ninth Circuit has posted the video of the oral argument on YouTube at this link.

“N.Y. federal judge who rescinded retirement still won’t step down”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report.

“The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online; People learned about the decision on the same devices they’ll use to help those in need circumvent it”: Melissa Gira Grant has this essay online at MIT Technology Review.

“Ex-Judge Luttig Calls GOP-Backed Legal Theory Grave Threat”: Tiana Headley of Bloomberg Law has this report.

“Qualified Immunity’s Flawed Foundation”: Law professor Alex Reinert has posted this article at SSRN.

“Elena Kagan’s Disavowal of Textualism Came Way Too Late; Many liberals — Supreme Court justices and otherwise — have lost sight of what textualism was created to do: reach conservative policy outcomes.” Yvette Borja has this post at Balls and Strikes.

“Historical Tradition: A Vague, Overconfident, and Malleable Approach to Constitutional Law.” Law professor Michael L. Smith has posted this article at SSRN.

And at his “Michael Smith’s Law Blog,” he has a related post titled “Choosing History” that begins, “Will Baude has written a column in the Washington Post, entitled Of Course the Supreme Court Needs to Use History. The Question is How.”

“‘Shocking’ Tom Girardi scandal shows need for legal reforms, California chief justice says”: Matt Hamilton and Harriet Ryan of The Los Angeles Times have this report.

Last week, those reporters had a related article headlined “Tom Girardi’s epic corruption exposes the secretive world of private judges.”

“Norfolk mother and daughter accused of illegal abortion, burning and burying body”: Peter Salter of The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star has this report.

The Norfolk (Neb.) Daily News has been covering this matter for weeks. Austin Svehla has had articles (subscription required for full access) headlined “Two Face Felony Charge Related to Alleged Burial of Stillborn Infant“; “Teenage Mother of Baby Alleged to Have Been Aborted has Case Transferred to Adult Court“; and “Mother, Daughter Plead Not Guilty in Case Involving Alleged Abortion, Disposal of Body.”

Theo Wayt of The New York Post reports that “Facebook gave teen’s private messages about alleged abortion to Nebraska police.”

Josh Funk of The Associated Press reports that “Nebraska woman charged with helping daughter have abortion.”

Kevin Collier and Minyvonne Burke of NBC News report that “Facebook turned over chat messages between mother and daughter now charged over abortion; The company was served with a warrant for the messages, which experts worry could become common.”

Ashley Belanger of Ars Technica reports that “Teen’s jailing shows exactly how Facebook will help anti-abortion states; A teen shared one message, then cops requested all her data without her consent.”

Pilar Melendez and Decca Muldowney of The Daily Beast report that “Facebook Turned Over Messages in Disturbing Abortion Case Against Teen and Mom; Cops say they got a tip about a secretly buried fetus, launching a case rife with lurid allegations — and a cameo from a tech giant.”

And Jason Koebler and Anna Merlan of Vice have an article headlined “This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion; Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager’s private chats about her abortion; Cops then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.”

“Texas anti-abortion protesters set sights on New Mexico, where the procedure is still protected; As Texans seek abortions in the only neighboring state to allow them, opponents of the procedure follow them across the border, hoping to create more ‘sanctuary cities for the unborn'”: William Melhado of The Texas Tribune has this report.

“Garland Becomes Trump’s Target After F.B.I.’s Mar-a-Lago Search”: Katie Benner and Glenn Thrush have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

“How Republicans rigged Texas’s federal courts against Biden; It’s easy to secure court orders blocking major policies when you can choose your own judges”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

“The Supreme Court Wants to End the Separation of Church and State. Justice Alito doesn’t think society is Christian enough. Recent court decisions show how he intends to remedy that.” Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at Politico Magazine.

“Garland vowed to depoliticize Justice. Then the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. Monday’s search of Donald Trump’s property triggered a political firestorm that Garland, a former federal judge, had wanted to avoid.” Perry Stein has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

“Ohio Supreme Court rules that Oberlin College doesn’t have to pay bakery $36 million judgment while appeals play out”: Laura Hancock of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report.

More details about this particular dispute can be found in plaintiffs’ brief in opposition to the college’s stay request.